Transport Topics (March 18, 2021)
According to a new analysis from the American Transportation Research Institute, a national vehicle-miles-traveled fee system would prove a complicated and expensive alternative to the federal fuel tax. The report comes after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg suggested earlier this year that a VMT tax looked promising as a future funding solution. But ATRI’s research estimated it would cost about $13.6 billion to equip the country’s 272 million private vehicles with the necessary tracking hardware.
