Transportation funding in the United States  Requirements:· Write 5-6 pages research paper about the transportation funding in the United States Not including graph, chart, or table. · Make sure y

Transportation funding in the United States  

Requirements:

· Write 5-6 pages research paper about the transportation funding in the United States Not including graph, chart, or table. 

· Make sure your sentence, grammar, and punctuation are used correctly 

· Make sure to use each link I provided under each paragraph to get more information. DON’t Copy and Paste anything from the link provide it. 

· Make sure to cite all the sources that you are going to use 

· You can use other sources to get more information about each paragraph. However you need to cite your source

· Add at least one graph, chart, and table in the research paper 

· Maximum use of four quotes for the whole paper and maximum of two lines sentences per quote. 

· Make sure to read and research about the subject before start writing. 

· The research must be comprehensive, the paper – well written, complete, accurate and well cited. The research paper should be at least 5-6 pages, double-spaced, written in a TPB publication format.

Introduction/ Background (paragraph 1)

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/public-private-partnerships-for-transportation-categorization-and-analysis-of-state-statutes-january-2016.aspx

· The link above has introduction and background information about Transportation funding. ( use this information for the introduction one paragraph ) 

Why is it needed the Transportation funding and what would happen if it doesn’t get fund it) (Paragraph #2) 

· http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/public-private-partnerships-for-transportation-categorization-and-analysis-of-state-statutes-january-2016.aspx

· https://uspirgedfund.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Why-and-How-to-Fund-Public-Transportation.pdf

· The two links above have good information about why is it needed the transportation funding in the United States. ( use these information for paragraph two. 

How much it cost to fund these transportation projects. ( Paragraph #3) 

· https://www.bidnet.com/resources/business-insights/us-government-spending-highway-infrastructure-en.jsp

· https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/presentation/45418-anatomycostestimate0.pdf

· The two links above have good information about the cost of transportation funding in the United States. ( use these information for paragraph two. 

What are the potential revenue sources for these funding (paragraph #4) 

· https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transportation_Economics/Revenue

· http://www.financingtransportation.org/funding_financing/funding/

· https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3572/Trans-funding-021717.pdf

States with transportations Enabling legislation (paragraph #5 ) 

· http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/public-private-partnerships-for-transportation-categorization-and-analysis-of-state-statutes-january-2016.aspx

· http://t4america.org/maps-tools/state-transportation-funding/

· http://t4america.org/maps-tools/measuring-up/measuring-up-recent-state-legislation-allowing-for-more-local-transportation-funding/

· http://www.ncsl.org/bookstore/state-legislatures-magazine/deep-dive-transportation-funding.aspx

· These four links above to have good information about the States enabling legislation transportation funding in the United States. ( use these information for paragraph #5. 

Federal government transportation funding (Paragraph #6)

· https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42706.pdf

· https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-highway-trust-fund-and-how-it-financed

· https://www.thoughtco.com/basics-of-transit-funding-2798674

· Use these three links above to have good information about the Federal government transportation funding in the United States. (use these information for paragraph #6. 

Recent transportation projects that were fund either by government or state and what are the benefits of these projects. ( paragraph #7)

· https://www.curbed.com/2018/1/18/16898246/transportation-construction-projects-biggest-us-2018

· http://t4america.org/maps-tools/bridges/overview/

· https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital-investments/current-capital-investment-grant-cig-projects

Conclusion (paragraph #8)

Basically conclude what you have mentioned in the research paper.