Public Willingness to Raise Transportation Revenues, Priorities for Transportation Spending, and Preferences for Types of Transportation Revenues: Evidence from Montana’s Billings and Missoula Small Urban Areas

dc.contributor.authorHamre, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorKack, David
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-16T23:30:03Z
dc.date.available2023-11-16T23:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2023-07
dc.description.abstractThis project analyzed public willingness to raise transportation revenues, public priorities for transportation spending, and public preferences for transportation revenue types using recent household travel surveys for the small urban areas of Billings and Missoula. The share of the public willing to pay more taxes or fees for transportation improvements was 44% in Billings and 36% in Missoula (including neutral or undecided responses). This level of public support for increased transportation revenues is perhaps higher than generally perceived by leaders reluctant to publicly support a gas tax increase. Our results regarding transportation spending priorities are consistent with the prioritization of preserving existing transportation assets. Maintenance and repair of existing infrastructure received the most support of transportation spending options in both the Billings and Missoula survey samples. Our results regarding the preferred type of transportation revenue mechanism (available only for Missoula) suggested that a plurality of the sample (35% including neutral or undecided responses) preferred a $0.02 per gallon increase in fuel taxes to other options (such as an increase in sales or property taxes). Together, our results suggest a public willingness to more adequately fund transportation investments, a preference for spending on existing transportation assets, and a preference for more direct road user charges over less direct alternatives.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSmall Urban and Rural Tribal Center on Mobilityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/18228
dc.publisherWestern Transportation Instituteen_US
dc.subjecttransportation financingen_US
dc.subjecttransportation revenuesen_US
dc.subjecttransportation spendingen_US
dc.subjecttransportation prioritiesen_US
dc.subjectgas taxen_US
dc.subjectsmall urbanen_US
dc.subjectMPOsen_US
dc.subjecthousehold travel surveysen_US
dc.titlePublic Willingness to Raise Transportation Revenues, Priorities for Transportation Spending, and Preferences for Types of Transportation Revenues: Evidence from Montana’s Billings and Missoula Small Urban Areasen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US
mus.citation.extentfirstpage1en_US
mus.citation.extentlastpage29en_US
mus.data.thumbpage11en_US
mus.identifier.doi10.15788/1700173900en_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Engineeringen_US
mus.relation.researchgroupWestern Transportation Institute (WTI).en_US
mus.relation.universityMontana State University - Bozemanen_US

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