Highway Trust Fund: Gives Options for Improving Sustainability and Mechanisms to Manage Solvency

 

The Highway Account is the principal means for funding federal highway programs. - Courtesy of USDA Forest Service

Administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) within the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Highway Account channels about $33 billion in highway user excise taxes annually to states for highway and related spending.

Estimated outlays from the Highway Account under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act?EUR??,,????'??+exceeded estimated receipts throughout the authorization period?EUR??,,????'??+fiscal years 2005 through 2009. ?EUR??,,????'??? Courtesy of Government Accountability Office