While the climate benefits from booming electric vehicle sales, the nation’s transportation system faces an unfortunate predicament: less gasoline and diesel purchased means dwindling fuel tax revenue. Fuel tax revenue provides a core funding source for operating, maintaining, and improving transportation systems, so policymakers must find a replacement as soon as possible.
This event explores such options as mileage fees, higher annual vehicle fees, or abandoning the user-pay principle and relying on general fund revenue.
This program is supported by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San José State University.
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MTI Tax Survey Presenter: Asha Weinstein Agrawal
Ph.D., Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center
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Carlos Braceras
Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation
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Jeff Davis
Senior Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation
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Ed Sniffen
Director, Hawaii Department of Transportation
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Tim Gatz
Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Transportation
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Panel Moderator: David “Davey” S. Kim
Senior Vice President & Principal, National Transportation Policy and Multimodal Strategy, WSP
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Additional Speakers TBA