| True Cost of Driving Online Calculator Resources |
| Cost Category |
Source (with PDF links) |
Website Link |
| Direct Driver's Expenses |
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| Fixed Costs |
AAA "Your Driving Costs
2009" brochure, p. 6, 7 table |
http://www.aaaexchange.com/Assets/Files/200948913570.DrivingCosts2009.pdf |
| Finance Charge |
AAA "Your Driving Costs
2009" brochure, p. 6, 7 table |
http://www.aaaexchange.com/Assets/Files/200948913570.DrivingCosts2009.pdf |
| Depreciation |
AAA "Your Driving Costs
2009" brochure, p. 6, 7 table |
http://www.aaaexchange.com/Assets/Files/200948913570.DrivingCosts2009.pdf |
| Fuel |
AAA Fuel
Gauge Report, Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California |
http://www.fuelgaugereport.com/CAmetro.asp |
| Maintenance and Tires |
AAA "Your Driving Costs
2009" brochure, p. 6, 7 table |
http://www.aaaexchange.com/Assets/Files/200948913570.DrivingCosts2009.pdf |
| Residential Parking |
Transportation Cost and Benefit
Analysis ch. 5.4, p. 20 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0504.pdf |
| User Paid Parking & Tolls |
Transportation
Cost and Benefit Analysis ch. 5.1, p. 5 table |
N/A, applied inflation calculator |
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US Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, Inflation Calculator set to calculate adjustment from
2001 dollars to 2009 dollars |
http://www.bls.gov/bls/inflation.htm |
| Travel
Time |
Transportation Cost and Benefit
Analysis ch. 5.2, p. 16 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0502.pdf |
| Accidents
(Internal) |
AAA "Crashes vs. Congestion, What's the
Cost to Society", p. 30 table |
http://www.aaanewsroom.net/Assets/Files/20083591910.CrashesVsCongestionFullReport2.28.08.pdf |
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| Indirect
Costs |
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| Accidents
(External) |
Transportation Cost and
Benefit Analysis ch. 5.3, p. 39 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0503.pdf |
| State
and Local Construction Improvements and repair of roads and highways |
(a) Annual Vehicle
Distance Traveled in Miles and Related Data - 2005 by Highway Category and
Vehicle Type |
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs05/htm/vm1.htm |
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(b) Total Receipts for Highways, by
Function, 1945-2004 chart |
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs04/htm/reccht.htm |
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(c) Funding
for Highways and Disposition of Highway-user Revenues, All Units of
Government, 2005 |
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs05/htm/hf10.htm |
| State
and Local maintenance and operations of roadways |
(a) Annual Vehicle
Distance Traveled in Miles and Related Data - 2005 by Highway Category and
Vehicle Type |
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs05/htm/vm1.htm |
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(b) Total Receipts for Highways, by
Function, 1945-2004 chart |
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs04/htm/reccht.htm |
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(c) Funding
for Highways and Disposition of Highway-user Revenues, All Units of
Government, 2005 |
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs05/htm/hf10.htm |
| Parking
(Gov't commercial and Employer Paid) |
Transportation Cost and Benefit
Analysis ch. 5.4, p. 21 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0504.pdf |
| Waste
Disposal |
Transportation Cost and
Benefit Analysis ch. 5.16, p. 4 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0516.pdf |
| Air
Pollution Damage |
Transportation Cost and Benefit
Analysis ch. 5.10, p. 24 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0510.pdf |
| External
Resource Consumption Costs |
Transportation
Cost and Benefit Analysis 5.12, p. 15
table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0512.pdf |
| Road
Noise |
Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis
ch. 5.11, p. 13 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0511.pdf |
| CO2
Cost Reduction |
Terrapass C02
Offset Service, (2008 Average Car) |
http://www.terrapass.com/buy-carbon-offsets/ |
| Water
Pollution |
Transportation
Cost and Benefit Analysis ch. 5.15, p. 8 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0515.pdf |
| Transportation
Diversity and Equity |
Transportation
Cost and Benefit Analysis ch. 5.9, p. 8 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0509.pdf |
| Barrier
Effects on Peds/Bikes |
Transportation Cost and
Benefit Analysis ch. 5.13, p. 7 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0513.pdf |
| Land
Use Impacts |
Transportation Cost and
Benefit Analysis ch. 5.14, p. 23 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0514.pdf |
| Roadway
Land Value |
Transportation Cost and
Benefit Analysis ch. 5.7, p. 13 table |
http://www.vtpi.org/tca/tca0507.pdf |
| Congestion
Costs |
Texas Transportation Institute, 2007
Urban Mobility Report, "What Does Congestion Cost Us?" p. B-19,
exhibit B-11 |
http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/report/congestion_cost.pdf |
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| Assumptions |
| Average
Miles/Year |
(a)
California Department of Transportation, California Motor Vehicle
Stock, p. 61, California Total Registered Vehicles, Autos 2006 |
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/smb/documents/mvstaff/mvstaff07.pdf |
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(b)
California Department of Transportation, California Motor Vehicle
Stock, p. 57, California Total Vehicle Miles Traveled, Autos 2006 |
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/smb/documents/mvstaff/mvstaff07.pdf |
| Gas
Mileage |
California
Department of Transportation, California Motor Vehicle Stock, p. 63,
California Statewide Vehicle Fuel Economy, Autos 2006 |
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/smb/documents/mvstaff/mvstaff07.pdf |
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