Although the Commission primarily focused on options to support federal transportation funding responsibilities, it also considered the relative applicability of individual mechanisms across all levels of government. The results of this assessment are included in this chapter for the benefit of those readers with an interest in state and local funding responsibility.
In coming to its conclusions, the Commission applied all these evaluation criteria to a large set of funding options derived from numerous sources, as described in later sections of this chapter. The Commission's focus was to evaluate funding options at the federal level. To the extent that a particular mechanism being addressed is also suited, or perhaps better suited, to state or local implementation, this is noted. Moreover, the evaluation criteria applied at the federal level generally also are applicable at the state and local level and thus are of value to state and local policy makers.