Abstract
Funding for transportation projects has historically come from governments, including federal, state, and local levels. This remains the current approach as well. More than $200 billion per year is invested in transportation projects [3] across the U.S. The largest source of revenue is the tax on gasoline, both at the federal and state levels.
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Prassas, E.S., Roess, R.P. (2013). Financing Transportation Projects. In: Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure. Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38580-3_8
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