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Transportation Funding, Fiscal Year 2011
Where it comes from and where it goes
Approximately 80 percent of Mn/DOT funds are appropriated by the legislature and 20 percent is statutorily appropriated. Sources of legislative appropriations include state motor fuel taxes, motor vehicle registration fees, motor vehicle sales taxes (MVST), and federal motor fuel tax grants. Fiscal year 2008 was the first year of a five-year phase-in of the motor vehicle sales tax, of which 100 percent will be directed to transportation by 2012.
Mn/DOT is a multi-modal agency. Its activities include transit; aeronautics; freight and commercial vehicles; construction; maintenance; and operation of 12,000 miles of state highways. Approximately 30 percent of Mn/DOT’s appropriations are state aid to local governments for road and bridge projects and other activities.
Note 1: Revenues and expenditures of the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) and Metro Transit are not included.
Note 2: Data is from the MN State Government Revenue and Expenditures for Transportation Purposes flowchart (Budgetary basis).