A Status Report on Indiana State Highway Reciprocity and Highway Cost-Allocation Studies

IN T R O D U C T IO N T his p ap er provides a b rief sta tus report of two studies m a n d a ted by the House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1006 of the 103rd In d iana G eneral Assembly. HEA 1006 authorized the In d iana D epartm ent of Highways (ID O H ) to undertake a sta te highway reciprocity study pu rsuan t to HEA 1567. T he HEA 1006 also requ ired the ID O H to conduct a highw ay cost-allocation study “to: (a) docum ent the full cost of bu ild ing and m ain ta in in g the s ta te ’s highway system, includ ing th a t po rtion of the federal In tersta te system w ithin Ind iana ; and (b) develop an eq u it­ able m ethodology for allocating such costs to all the users of the system .” Both studies were in itia ted by the Advisory B oard of the Jo in t H igh ­ way R esearch Project of P u rdue University in cooperation w ith the ID O H on May, 1983. T h e state highway reciprocity study was com ­ pleted in O ctober, 1983 and the results were presented to the Jo in t L eg­ islative Study C om m ittee on H ighway F inance [5]. T h e highway cost-al­ location study is still in progress and it is expected to be com pleted by O ctober, 1984.