Last year’s Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act established the STSFA. The program is designed to fund projects that “test the design, implementation and acceptance of user-based” non-traditional funding methods.
“We’re thinking ahead about ways to fund our highway system and be equipped for the nation’s economic future,” says Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau. “It’s a system people rely upon for their jobs and essential services, for businesses to serve their customers and for freight shippers to deliver their goods.”
Projects receiving grants include:
- $750,000 – Road User Charge (RUC) using pay-at-the pump/ charging stations – California Department of Transportation
- $1.49 million – User fees based with on-board mileage counters in collaboration with members of the I-95 Corridor Coalition – Delaware Department of Transportation
- $3.99 million – User fee collection based on manual and automated odometer readings at inspection stations – Hawaii Department of Transportation
- $300,000 – Use of Mobility-as-a-Service providers (MaaS) as the revenue collection mechanism – Minnesota Department of Transportation
- $250,000 – Implementation a new registration fee schedule based on estimated miles per gallon – Missouri Department of Transportation
- $2.1 million – Improvements to Oregon’s existing road usage charge program, OReGO – Oregon Department of Transportation
- $1.5 million – Establishing the consistency, compatibility and interoperability in road user charging for a regional system in collaboration with members of the Western Road User Charge Consortium – Oregon Department of Transportation
- $3.85 million – Testing critical elements of interoperable, multi-jurisdictional alternative user-based revenue collection systems; piloting methods of road usage reporting with Washington drivers – Washington State Department of Transportation