[BigBobber]

A true market-based system would only require one to count the traffic miles on stretches of road. The gas tax generated by each stretch (roughly proportional to vehicle miles) would be allocated to expand lanes where demand is highest, thus increasing revenue until demand meets supply.

This would mean rural highways with low demand would receive less dollars.

Social engineers and politicians have artificially restricted the supply of highways for over thirty years because private vehicles are seen as evil, while government transportation is seen as good. The professor's harebrained scheme will only perpetuate this topsy-turvy system.

I can pretty much guarantee the government will use GPS tracking to control your behavior the way the IRS uses the tax code. Politically correct special interests will be favored with cheaper tariffs, while the middle class will bear the brunt of the system. It will be a social manipulator's erotic dream. It is the antithesis of market-based. It must be fought at very turn.

[DUMBGRUNT]

All social engineers and politicians should be fitted with permanent shock collars.
All proposals would be voted on over the internet.
The intensity and frequency of the shock would determined by the total number of votes and differance.