These reports comprise a series of reports from the Jim Self Center on the Future to address the issue of funding transportation infrastructure needs for South Carolina.
The first report summarizes responses from 1,000 households in South Carolina to a survey on transportation issues and funding alternatives. The survey was designed to help identify the relative importance of key transportation issues in different areas of the state and to determine respondents' level of acceptance of alternative strategies for funding transportation infrastructure. Transportation issues rated include safety, road maintenance, congestion, and appearance. Transportation funding alternatives rated include impact fees, state general funds, tolls, state loan pools, sales taxes, income taxes, fuel taxes, and property taxes. Respondents were also asked to rate which transportation programs should receive more, less, or about the same level of funding.
SPECIAL REPORT No. 1 Transportation Needs and Funding Alternatives: A Survey Complete Report Executive Summary
The second report summarizes trends in state revenues used for highways from the Federal Highway Administration's annual publication Highway Statistics, and other sources. It also provides rankings of the states by the percentage of own-source state revenue in 2000 that came from individual revenue sources such as motor fuel taxes, motor vehicle registration and carrier fees, and state general funds. Detailed revenue and expenditure trends for South Carolina and all states combined are compiled for every five years between 1965 and 2000. These statistics are presented on the basis of total dollars, percentage share of total, dollars per capita, dollars per million vehicle miles traveled, and dollars per state-maintained road mile. Additional statistics are presented for the southeastern states for the year 2000.
SPECIAL REPORT No. 2 Transportation Funding Trends and Comparative State Assessment Complete Report Executive Summary Minor text and numeric corrections were posted 2/3/03 for pages 41, 42, 48, and 65 and Tables S.2, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, and 4.9. Table S.3 corrected 3/18/03.
The third report examines current and alternative funding options and the potential of these options to meet South Carolina's projected transportation infrastructure needs. A series of six scenarios are evaluated to determine the potential of meeting the $56.9 billion target of the South Carolina Multimodal Transportation Plan over the period from 2003 to 2022. The baseline scenario based on current funding sources at current rates projects a revenue stream of $26.3 billion over 20 years, leaving a $30.6 billion shortfall. Funding alternatives considered include two increased federal funding scenarios, supplemental funding sources, and initial rate increases in state fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees combined with inflation indexing.
SPECIAL REPORT No. 3 Transportation Funding Options for the State of South Carolina 2003-2022 Complete Report Executive Summary
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