{"id":10521,"date":"2021-03-24T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10521"},"modified":"2021-03-24T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:48:54","slug":"new-research-highlights-realities-of-a-national-vehicle-miles-traveled-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/new-research-highlights-realities-of-a-national-vehicle-miles-traveled-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"New research highlights realities of a national vehicle miles traveled tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/truckingresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Transportation Research Institute<\/a> has released a new report detailing the costs of deploying and operating a national vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax.<\/p>\n<p>ATRI\u2019s Research Advisory Committee identified the study as a top research priority and aims to understand the opportunities and challenges of a federal system.<\/p>\n<p>The research found that replacing the federal fuel tax with a VMT tax that is assessed on 272 million private vehicles could result in collection costs of more than $20 billion annually \u2013 or 300 times higher than the federal fuel tax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that a VMT tax is a far more complicated and costly replacement for the fuel tax than many had anticipated,\u201d said James Burg Trucking Company President and CEO Jim Burg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a system like this is going to work for everyone, many years of thoughtful planning and federal leadership are needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full report can be read on <a href=\"https:\/\/truckingresearch.org\/2021\/03\/16\/a-practical-analysis-of-a-national-vmt-tax-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATRI\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Transportation Research Institute has released a new report detailing the costs of deploying and operating a national vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. ATRI\u2019s Research Advisory Committee identified the study as a top research priority and aims to understand the opportunities and challenges of a federal system. The research found that replacing the federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving-for-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}