Future of road funding in tolling
By Dan Shaw

Now the consensus in the transportation-research community, 10 years ago, we said we need to charge per mile instead of per gallon. That’s the most sustainable way forward.  But the public is not very keen on it. In a synthesis of studies that came out a few years ago, only about 24% of the population seems to think this is a good idea.  Part of this is because the media has portrayed this as Big Brother in your car. As if it has to be done by GPS and if every mile you travel is minutely tracked. It seems like a big privacy intrusion Also, people don’t believe that this would replace the gas tax, they are suspicious of government. They think – oh yeah, sure – this will be just another tax