Creative Ways to Consider Funding Future Transportation

摘要

Carole Turley with UCLA discussed transportation utility fees (TUFs), which have been used inrnseveral states and cities to fund the maintenance of local roads. The TUFs are paid by propertyrnoccupants based on land use intensity and are also known as street maintenance fees, road usernfees, and street utility fees. They differ from transportation impact fees and mitigation fees inrnthat they are paid by property occupants rather than developers, and that they are paid on anrnongoing (monthly) basis for maintenance and are distributed as a utility. Local utilities do notrnmeter use of the transportation system; instead the fee is set based on trip estimated triprngeneration based on different on land uses. Sixteen out of 25 TUF ordinances specify the use ITErntrip generation rates.