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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MichaelSol [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by NS2317 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MichaelSol Passenger vehicles, which account for 93 percent of total highway travel, pay 64 percent of total Federal highway user fees. Combination trucks, on the other hand, pay over 25 percent of total highway user fees even though they travel less than 5 percent of total mileage. Among the truck classes, user fees vary substantially by vehicle weight. Single unit trucks registered at 50,000 pounds or more pay 2.5 times as much per mile in Federal user fees as single unit trucks registered at 25,000 pounds or less. [/quote] Using this, is it safe to say that there are 9 passenger vehicles for every combination truck? [/quote] No. Commercial vehicles generally are on the road. Automobiles generally sit in garages or parking lots. Relative highway mileage would be a poor measure of vehicle numbers. A commercial truck might easily do 200,000 miles per year, although the average is probably closer to 60,000 miles annually. According to the EPA, the average American automobile travels about 12,500 miles per year. Additionally, when they are moving, the over-the-road trucks spend more time proportionately on highways, whereas automobiles no doubt spend more time proportionately off the highways, on streets and other roads. Best regards, Michael Sol [/quote] I guess it should have been asked like this, considering the response. "Using this, is it safe to say that there are 9 passenger vehicles for every combination truck on the highways at a given moment in set section of highway?" If passenger vehicles account for 93% of highway travel, they are not in garages or on other roads. That statement was the basis for my nine out of ten reasoning. When you talk about the ratios of user fees, I would assume that these involve the ratio of weight that travels over these highways, which is the reason for maintanance of the roads and the percentages charged to the users. The fact that a railroad uses it's own roads to haul goods, makes it able to analize the costs incurred from this usage better. Because the trucks use a highway system that is shared with the traveling public, the actual cost of physical plant repair due to comercial vehicle use would be somewhat less clear. The railroad knows what caused the rail to wear, but one can only speculate what caused the highway's wear and tear.
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