True Cost of Driving Online Calculator Resources
Cost Category Source (with PDF links) Originally retrieved from: Website Link
Direct Driver's Expenses  
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://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/states/california/california-metro/
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
  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
 
Indirect Costs  
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
  (b) Total Receipts for Highways, by Function, 1945-2004 chart http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs04/htm/reccht.htm
  (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
  (b) Total Receipts for Highways, by Function, 1945-2004 chart http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs04/htm/reccht.htm
  (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
 
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
  (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