The Status of the Nation's Highways
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Highway planning
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Highway planning
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Author : Lyell D. Henry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1609384210
Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated long-distance travel. Then, the roads confronting would-be motorists were not merely bad, they were abysmal, generally accounted to be the worst of those of all the industrialized nations. The plight of the rapidly rising numbers of early motorists soon spawned a “good roads” movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named auto trails across the length and breadth of the nation. Full of a can-do optimism, these early partisans of motoring sought to link together existing roads and then make them fit for automobile driving—blazing, marking, grading, draining, bridging, and paving them. The most famous of these named highways was the Lincoln Highway between New York City and San Francisco. By early 1916, a proposed counterpart coursing north and south from Winnipeg to New Orleans had also been laid out. Called the Jefferson Highway, it eventually followed several routes through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Jefferson Highway, the first book on this pioneering road, covers its origin, history, and significance, as well as its eventual fading from most memories following the replacement of names by numbers on long-distance highways after 1926. Saluting one of the most important of the early named highways on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, historian Lyell D. Henry Jr. contributes to the growing literature on the earliest days of road-building and long-distance motoring in the United States. For readers who might also want to drive the original route of the Jefferson Highway, three chapters trace that route through Iowa, pointing out many vintage features of the roadside along the way. The perfect book for a summer road trip!
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2006-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309100887
All phases of road developmentâ€"from construction and use by vehicles to maintenanceâ€"affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past two decades, the Federal Highway Administration and state transportation agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of the effects of transportation on the natural environment. This report provides guidance on ways to reconcile the different goals of road development and environmental conservation. It identifies the ecological effects of roads that can be evaluated in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of roads and offers several recommendations to help better understand and manage ecological impacts of paved roads.
Author : Ken Skorseth
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gravel roads
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The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
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Category : Bridges
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Express highways
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : United States. Department of Transportation
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Express highways
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309164834
All phases of road developmentâ€"from construction and use by vehicles to maintenanceâ€"affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past two decades, the Federal Highway Administration and state transportation agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of the effects of transportation on the natural environment. This report provides guidance on ways to reconcile the different goals of road development and environmental conservation. It identifies the ecological effects of roads that can be evaluated in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of roads and offers several recommendations to help better understand and manage ecological impacts of paved roads.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Federal aid to transportation
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