Report of the Highway Cost Allocation Study

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961

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Pagina 30 - ... any direct and indirect benefits accruing to any class which derives benefits from Federal-aid highways, in addition to benefits from actual use of such highways, which are attributable to public expenditures for such highways.
Pagina 30 - State highway departments, to make a study and investigation of-- (1) the effects on design, construction, and maintenance of Federal-Aid highways of (a) the use of vehicles of different dimensions, weights, and other specifications, and (b) the frequency of occurrences of such vehicles in the traffic stream...
Pagina 47 - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota...
Pagina 1 - We were not a wealthy nation when we began improving our highways * * * but the roads themselves helped us create a new wealth, in business and "industry and land values * * *. So it was not our wealth that made our highways possible. Rather, it was our highways that made our wealth possible.
Pagina 2 - Treasury to invest such portion of the trust fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States...
Pagina 45 - Insofar as possible in consonance with this objective, existing highways located on an interstate route shall be used to the extent that such use is practicable, suitable, and feasible, it being the intent that local needs, to the extent practicable, suitable, and feasible, shall oe given equal consideration with the needs of interstate commerce.
Pagina 228 - It has been pointed out that there is no affirmative proof which can be offered that the product, weight times distance, is a measure of value of service.
Pagina iii - Commerce is directed to take all action possible to expedite the conduct of a series of tests now planned or being conducted by the Highway Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Bureau of Public Roads, the several States, and other persons and organizations, for the purpose of determining the maximum desirable dimensions and weights for vehicles operated on the Federal-aid highway systems, including the Interstate System...
Pagina 91 - States now or hereafter to be formed or bounded by the same; and said rivers and waters, and all the navigable waters of said State, shall be common highways and forever free, as well as to the inhabitants of said State as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll therefor.
Pagina 30 - The purpose of this section is to make available to the Congress information on the basis of which it may determine what taxes should be imposed by the United States, and in what amounts, in order to assure, insofar as practicable, an equitable distribution of the tax burden among the various classes of persons using the Federal-aid highways or otherwise deriving benefits from such highways.

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