Charging a dollar fee per trip to Uber users, hitting hybrid and electric car owners with a new annual fee, and raising the state’s 3.07 percent personal income tax to 3.17 percent are among the ideas that a group of southeastern Pennsylvania leaders have pulled together to address the state’s transportation funding crisis.

A report released on Monday by the Southeast Partnership for Mobility identifies new ways to support public transportation to takes the pressure off the debt-ridden Pennsylvania Turnpike and try to stabilize its ever-rising tolls.

The 54-page report also speaks to the importance of public transportation to the economy in the southeastern corner of the state and the state’s transportation funding quagmire created by Act 44 of 2007.

That 2007 law, which banked on tolling Interstate 80 that the federal government didn’t allow, and another law that followed in 2013 require the turnpike to turn over $450 million a year to PennDOT through 2022 to support public transportation. The turnpike has had to borrow to make those payments, which contributed to about half of $11.8 billion debt the toll road has accumulated.

Calling for action now, the partnership led by turnpike chair and state Transportation Secretary Leslie Richards and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority Chairman Pasquale Deon Sr. sees challenges ahead in the Philadelphia region if public transportation doesn’t pace.

“A statewide solution to Act 44 is needed,” Deon said in a news release. Along with that, he said, “Southeast Pennsylvania and local communities need enabling legislation to help raise regional revenues to invest in transit and turnpike projects to accommodate and accelerate regional growth.”

A report released on Monday by the Southeast Partnership for Mobility calls for coming up with new statewide funding options, such as the ones shown here, along with local options to pay for public transportation.

The report includes such statewide solutions as small increases in the state’s broad-based sales or personal income taxes along with a menu or more innovative ways of raising revenue.

To meet the anticipated need for transportation improvements in the southeast, the partnership is recommending giving local governments more revenue raising options as well.

“We are at a critical juncture in understanding just how damaging and deep the risks to our statewide transportation funding pool really are,” Richards said in a news release. “”This report demonstrates the importance of our mass transit assets now and into the future.”

A similar study is expected to be released in about a month developed by the turnpike commission and the Port Authority of Allegheny County.

Senate Transportation Committee Chairwoman Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland County, also has formed a working group to look for alternative funding sources for public transportation. Last week, she announced she was proposing legislation that would give counties broader authority and responsibility to support public transportation in their regions.

Along with the turnpike debt that is motivating state and local officials to look for an alternative way to fund public transportation going forward, the turnpike also faces a lawsuit in federal court filed by trucking and motorists’ groups. They are challenging the constitutionality of using turnpike tolls to support non-turnpike projects and seeking nearly $6 billion in refunds from tolls.