1. Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2003, Funding for Highways and Disposition of Highway-User Revenues, All Units of Government (Washington, D.C.: FHWA, 2003).
2. Cambridge Systematics Inc., Future Highway and Public Transportation Finance, II.
3. Ibid.
4. The transportation reauthorization bill prior to SAFETEA-LU, known as the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), passed in 1998.
5. It is important to note that Congress eliminated some of the earmarks in the 2006 Transportation Appropriations bill.
6. 23 CFR §450.214.
7. 23 CFR §450.216.
8. See Table 7 in this report.
9. U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation 2004 (Washington D.C.:, U.S. DOT, 2005).
10. Federal Highway Administration., Highway Statistics 2003, "Disposition of Local Government Receipts from State and Local Highway-User Revenues" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. DOT, 2005).
11. Todd Goldman, Sam Corbett and Martin Wachs, Local Option Transportation Taxes in the United States (Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley, March 2001), 1; http://repositories.cdlib.org/its/reports/UCB-ITS-RR-2001-3/.
12. Ibid., 7.
13. Ibid.
14. "Florida County Imposes Gas Tax to Fund ITS on Area Roads, AASHTO Journal 106 no. 11 (March 17, 2006) 9.
15. Goldman, Corbett and Wachs, Local Option Transportation Taxes, 10.
16. Ibid., 16.
17. Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA), The Quiet Crisis (Los Angeles: AAA, 2002), 40.
18. Ibid., 18.
19. Ibid., 20.
20. See Table 7 in this report.