Distributional impacts of changing from a gasoline tax to a vehicle-mile tax for light vehicles: A case study of Oregon

Transport Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 359-366

  Starr McMullen, B ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Nakahara, Kyle ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel tax; Highway user fee; Tax incidence; Vehicle miles traveled (VMT); VMT tax

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; FUEL; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAX SYSTEM;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956230959     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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