California’s Dept. of Transportation is about to start a nine-month pilot mileage-based road-charge program with 5,000 volunteers. The program, slated to kick off in July, reflects increasing efforts to diversify transportation funding across the nation.
“It will be like a utility—you pay according to how much you use the roads,” said Carrie Pourvahidi, road-charge program manager for Caltrans, speaking on a panel at the Women’s Transportation Seminar conference in Austin this month.