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原文传递 Trends in Federal and State Capital Investment in Highways.

题名：	Trends in Federal and State Capital Investment in Highways.
关键词：	Highway-infrastructure; Capital-investments.;United-States; Congressional-reports; Expenditures-; Federal-government; Freight-traffic; Trends-; State-government.
摘要：	Amid projections that freight traffic will increase 65 percent by 2020 and that traffic congestion will worsen, many transportation officials are concerned about the challenge of maintaining and improving the condition and performance of the nation's highway infrastructure. In 1998, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) increased funding for highways by 27 percent in real terms over the previous surface transportation authorization act--the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). As you prepare to reauthorize TEA-21 and establish funding levels for the next several years, you asked us to provide historical information on the nation's investment in its highway infrastructure. In particular, you asked that we (1) identify overall trends in the nation's capital investment in its highway system over the past 20 years, particularly since the enactment of TEA-21 in 1998-and compare the trends in federal spending with the trends in state and local government spending; (2) determine how these trends in highway capital investment compare with the fiscal capacity of both the nation and individual states to fund these programs, particularly since the enactment of TEA-21 in 1998; and (3) provide information on sources of funds used by states for their highway programs. On June 10, 2003, we briefed your office on the results of our work. This report summarizes the briefing. To respond to your request, we reviewed data from FHWA's Highway Statistics for the period from 1982 through 2001, adjusting expenditures to 2001 dollars. We also compared expenditures with the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) and the gross state products (GSP) of individual states and interviewed transportation officials in 10 states. We performed our work from August 2002 through May 2003 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Our scope and methodology is discussed in more detail later in this report.
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