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This product is part of the Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS) dissertation series. PRGS dissertations are produced by graduate fellows of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, the world’s leading producer of Ph.D.’s in policy analysis. The dissertation has been supervised, reviewed, and approved by the graduate fellow’s faculty committee.
Mileage-Based User Fee Winners and Losers An Analysis of the Distributional Implications of Taxing Vehicle Miles Traveled, With Projections, 2010–2030 Brian A. Weatherford This document was submitted as a dissertation in March 2012 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of Martin Wachs (Chair), Howard Shatz, and Thomas Light. Financial support for this research was generously provided by the Pardee RAND Graduate School Energy and Environment Advisory Council. Additional financial support was received from the Bradley Foundation and the Federal Highway Administration. PARDEE RAND GRADUATE SCHOOL
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Page 5: ABSTRACT The mileage-based user fee
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“relative share rate of return fr
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gasoline in the United States could
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The first method divides total fede
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Risk of global warming: The margina
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additional projections based on alt
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industry and public sector energy c
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FLAT-RATE MBUFS ARE NO MORE OR LESS
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Table 5.1 Percent Change in Average
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Table 5.3 Change in the Consumer Su
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weighting of the changes in revenue
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Table 5.6 Average Changes in Federa
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Table 5.7 Components of Welfare Cha
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The finding that increasing the rat
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Table 5.10 Change in Consumer Surpl
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of adopting MBUFs. Specifically, th
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Table 5.14 Percent Change in VMT an
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side by side for each alternative.
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The findings for other groups are m
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Table 5.17 Average Change in Consum
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6. FUTURE DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPLICATIO
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e enacted. Figure 6.4 completes the
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Table 6.1 Projections of Suits Indi
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change in consumer surplus for key
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7. CONCLUSION The purpose of this d
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The marginal costs of congestion an
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Commercial trucks were explicitly n
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The variable name for Hispanic stat
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price series from the EIA. The “M
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Table A.1 State Gasoline Excise Tax
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Table A.3 Household Type Categories
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CALCULATING THE CHANGE IN CONSUMER
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Revenue Revenue Revenue Method
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PROJECTIONS OF CHANGES IN CONSUMER
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Table B.3 Projections of Changes in
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LIST OF REFERENCES AAA. 2011. Your
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Musgrave, Richard A., and Peggy B.
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Wachs, Martin. 2003. Improving effi
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