Resources

Reports & Brochures

• Ohio ARRA Information Session Presentation
  Information regarding the apportionment of money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Roads (2009)
  An overview of the latest findings regarding the status of our nation's roads.
  
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Bridges (2009)
  An overview of the latest findings regarding the status of our nation's bridges.
  
• Report Card for America's Infrastructure: Ohio (2005)
  This 3-page fact sheet produced by the ASCE gives a bulleted list of Ohio's infrastructure needs.
  
• Ohio's County Highways 2003: Identifying Needs for Ohio's Third Century (1997)
  This CEAO brochure, written in 1997, predicted the challenges that Ohio's county highways would face in the new millennium. Twelve years later, these problems are more urgent than ever.
• Slanted Pavement: How Ohio's Highway Spending Shortchanges Cities and Suburbs
  The Brookings Institution's March 2003 study of the Ohio Gas Tax.
• 2009 ASCE Report Card for America's Infrastructure
  This newest report card grades the nation's infrastructure at a D.
  
• Case Study of Highway Maintenance Management: Ohio's County Work Plans
  A study of the Ohio Department of Transportation's County Work Plans.
  
• Seeing Red: An Overview of Ohio's Highway Conditions (2002)
  This OCIA Special Report offers detailed information regarding who is responsible for maintaining different parts of Ohio's roads, how the gas tax funds are spent, why revenues are decreasing, and important safety implications associated with deteriorating road and bridge conditions.
• The Deal on Wheels: An OCIA Special Report
  This brochure pinpoints the need for increased construction funding, and enumerates just how much a small tax increase will help Ohio's failing infrastructure.
• The Future of Road User Fees: Possible Alternatives to Ohio's Gas Tax
  This OCIA Special Report compares alternative means of revenue generation other than the gas tax, which has been providing less revenue as fuel-efficiency increases and people drive less.
  
• Ohio's Fiscal Freeways: A Look at Tranportation's Impact on the Economy
  This brochure explains how investing in infrastructure and construction improvements creates jobs all across Ohio.
  
• Ohio's Freight-Truck Traffic Dilemma: An OCIA Special Report
  This brochure offers statistics that indicate just how rough freight traffic is on Ohio's road conditions.
• Bridge The Gap Ohio Postcard
  A postcard highlighting some of the facts and figures presented on this site.
  

Related News Items

• Strickland: Federal Stimulus Includes $8.2B for Ohio - NBC4i Columbus, 17 February 2009.
• Poor Infrastructure fails America, civil engineers report - CNN, 28 January 2009. [video]
• Ohio studies vehicle-miles tax to replace or supplement fuel tax - The Plain Dealer, 23 January 2009.

Websites

• Report Card for America's Infrastructure (2009) [Ohio]
  
• ASCE Infrastructure Report Card (2005)
• Ohio Construction Information Association
• County Engineers' Association of Ohio
  

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