What We Do

The Office of Transportation Policy Studies examines a broad range of cross-cutting issues that will affect future transportation policies and programs. It also implements the Value Pricing Pilot Program and the Joint Federal State Motor Fuel Tax Compliance Project.

Policy study areas include:

• Relationships between highway investment and economic productivity
• Highway cost allocation and truck size and weight policy
• Highway pricing and demand management
• Emerging transportation policy issues

Products of these policy studies include:

• Reports to Congress including the Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study, the Federal Highway Cost Allocation Study, and the biennial progress report on the Value Pricing Pilot Program
• Proceedings of workshops, conferences, etc. on a wide range of current and emerging policy issues.
• Data and analytical tools for use by States and others in assessing transportation policy options
• Papers analyzing specific transportation policy issues and options.

For further information, please contact 202-366-9208.