U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
202-366-4000
This program area is focused on understanding and tracking costs of highways to both users and agencies, along with studying different funding options for them. This includes, but is not limited to, identifying and evaluating highway-related costs attributable to different user categories, such as vehicle classes, and assessing if the user fees paid cover their highway cost responsibility. Some of the highlighted activities of this program area are the Highway Cost Allocation Study program (HCAS), quarterly publication of the National Highway Construction Cost Index (NHCCI), and the Highway Revenue Forecasting Model.
The Highway Revenue Forecasting Model (HRFM) is an analytical tool that forecasts Federal, State, and Local revenues from existing highway user fees and selected new revenue sources. It attributes revenues to different vehicle classes, evaluates user-fee policy scenarios, forecasts State and Local highway revenues, and conducts distributional impact analyses.
This webpage provides a price index that can be used both to track price changes associated with highway construction costs, and to convert current dollar expenditures on highway construction to real or constant dollar expenditures. The National Highway Construction Cost Index (NHCCI) is intended to replace the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Bid-Price Index (BPI) in the future, but also to be compared with BPI for historical purposes.
For more information, contact NHCCI@dot.gov
The Federal Highway Administration conducts highway cost allocation studies to evaluate highway-related costs attributable to different vehicle classes and the extent to which user fees paid by different vehicles cover their highway cost responsibility.
For more information, contact Getachew Mekonnen
