The Commission considered a broad range of targeted tolling and pricing as well as comprehensive road pricing options. Targeted tolling and pricing approaches refer to direct user fee mechanisms that are administered at the local, regional, or state levels and focus on pricing access to and/or distance traveled on individual facilities or regional networks. These approaches, which include various forms of tolling and cordon pricing, generally are considered as means for state and local governments to fund highway and transit infrastructure investments, particularly in urban and other congested areas. Comprehensive road pricing, alternatively, could be imposed at the federal level (e.g., via a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee approach) or, alternatively, at the state level, to pay for broad-based transportation infrastructure investments. This section provides an overview of the Commission's assessment results and an evaluation of options in Exhibit 3-7. A detailed discussion of targeted tolling and pricing and comprehensive road pricing options is provided in Chapter 6.
• If states do not choose to switch from gas tax to a VMT charge system for state revenues, cost of dual adminiòstration of both a gas tax system and a VMT system could create higher overall tax and fee implementation costs on combined basis