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Wisconsin Commission on Transportation Finance and Policy papers

Wisconsin Department of Transportation staff provided the following overviews and issue papers to commissioners for review and discussion.

Revenue and finance issues

Current revenues

• 2011-13 biennial budget highlights
• State transportation revenues, overview
• Federal transportation revenues, overview
• Local transportation expenditures, overview
• Current condition: expenditures vs. revenues
• 10-year transportation revenue outlook
• Transportation fund integrity, policy issue paper

Potential new revenues

• Existing transportation fees, policy issue paper
• Motor fuel taxes, policy issue paper
• Revenue alternatives, policy issue paper
• Federal funding replacement alternatives, policy issue paper
• Value-based registration fees, policy issue paper
• Vehicle-miles-traveled revenue approaches, policy issue paper
• Mileage-based transportation funding, overview
• Mileage-based registration fee, low-tech update, policy issue paper
• Potential state revenue options (2013-15 biennium)
• Recent state transportation funding commissions, overview

Finance issues

• Bond financing for transportation programs, overview
• Debt management, policy issue paper
• Debt management, alternative for commission consideration
• State infrastructure banks, policy issue paper
• Public-private partnerships, overview
• Public-private partnerships, policy issue paper
• Tolling, overview
• Tolling policy and implementation issues, policy issue paper
• Transportation finance mechanisms, overview

Program Policy and Funding Issues

 State Highway Programs

• State highway rehabilitation program, overview
• Major highway development program, overview
• Southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects program, overview
• State highway improvement program, policy issue paper
• State highway maintenance program, overview
• State highway maintenance program, policy issue paper
• Funding summary - state highway programs
• State traffic operations program, policy issue paper
• State highway project delivery methods, policy issue paper
• Value engineering - a primer

Local Programs

• General transportation aids and other local assistance programs, overview
• Local road and bridge programs, overview
• Local road and bridge programs, policy issue paper
• Transit programs, overview
• Transit programs, policy issue paper
• Bicycle and pedestrian programs, overview
• Bicycle and pedestrian programs, policy issue paper
• Aviation programs, overview
• Aviation programs, policy issue paper
• Rail programs, overview
• Freight rail assistance programs, policy issue paper
• Harbor assistance program, overview
• Harbor assistance program, policy issue paper

Planning studies

• Connections 2030 long-range transportation plan
• State highway planning studies and landowner issues, overview
• State freight program comparisons, policy issue paper
• Multimodal priority freight network, policy issue paper

10-year transportation needs analysis

• Scenario one - disinvestment
• Scenario two – preservation
• Scenario three – capacity management
• Scenario four – multimodal enhancements

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Last modified: February 1, 2013