Roads cover a signiÞcant fraction of the land area in many municipalities. The public provision of roads means this land is exempt from the local property tax. Transferring roads from public to private ownership would not only remove maintenance costs from city budgets, but increase potential...

A significant portion of local transportation funding comes from the property tax. The tax is conventionally assessed on both land and buildings, but transportation increases only the value of the land. A more direct, efficient way to fund transportation projects is to tax land at a higher rate...

Transportation utility fees are a financing mechanism for transportation that treats the network as a utility and bills properties in proportion to their use, rather than their value as with the property tax. This connects the costs of maintaining the infrastructure more directly to the benefits...

CLIFF A. D., HAGGETT P. and MARTIN R. L. (1997) Michael Chisholm: an appreciation, Reg. Studies 31, 205-210. Over the past 40 years, Michael Chisholm has made flundamental contributions both to economic geography and to its applications in government. This paper reviews the major areas of his...