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FUEL TAX EVASION

Steering Committee Meetings - Minutes (excluding attachments)

Newsletters

Reports

For further information contact Michael Dougherty

HIGHWAY COST ALLOCATION

For further information contact Mr. James March

HIGHWAYS AND THE ECONOMY

Macroeconomic Perspectives

  • Productive Highway Capital Stock Measures Summary (2008) – Fraumeni [HTML, PDF]. The full report is available, please contact Kwhite@dot.gov.
  • Production, Consumption and the Rates of Return to Highway Infrastructure Capital (2003) – Mamuneas and Nadiri [summary]
  • A Report on the Effects of Highway Capital on Consumption Demand (2000) – Nadiri and Mamuneas [summary]
  • Productive Highway Capital Stock Measures (1999) – Fraumeni [HTML, PDF]
  • Transportation Investment and New Insights in Economic Analysis (1999) – Shirley [HTML, PDF]
  • A Summary of Contributions of Highway Capital Output and Productivity Growth in the U.S. Economy and Industries (1998) – Jacoby [HTML]
  • Contribution of Highway Capital to Output and Productivity Growth in the U.S. Economy and Industries (1998) – Nadiri and Mamuneas [HTML]
  • Economic Returns from Transportation Investment (1996) – Madrick [HTML, PDF]
  • Contribution of Highway Capital to Industry and National Productivity Growth (1996) Nadiri and Mamuneas [PDF]
  • Productivity and the Highway Network: A Look at the Economic Benefits to Industry from Investment in the Highway Network (1996) – U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration [HTML, PDF]

Microeconomic and Industry Analysis

  • Application of Detailed Interchange Analysis to Top Freight Bottlenecks Methods, Results, and Road Map for Future Research (2007) [PDF]
  • An Initial Assessment of Freight Bottlenecks on Highways (2005) – Cambridge Systematics [HTML, PDF]
  • The Effect of Government Highway Spending on Road Congestion Costs (2004) – Winston and Langer [HTML, PDF]
  • The Impact of Congestion and Shippers' Inventory Costs (2004) – Shirley and Winston [HTML, PDF]
  • Firm Inventory Behavior and the Returns from Highway Infrastructure Investments (2003) – Shirley and Winston [PDF]
  • Chicago-New York City Corridor Analysis Report for the Strategic Multimodal Analysis [HTML]

For further information contact Dr. Karen White or Mr. James March.

TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT ANALYSIS

Executive Summaries

For further information contact Dr. Karen White or Mr. William Linde.



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