Highway Funding: Alternatives for Distributing Federal Funds

RCED-96-6 Published: Nov 28, 1995. Publicly Released: Nov 28, 1995.

Highlights

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the formula for distributing federal highway funds, focusing on the: (1) relevancy of the data used for the formula; (2) major funding objectives implicit in the formula; and (3) implications of alternative formula factors for achieving these objectives.

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