Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
The Highway Transportation Story in Facts. Fifth Edition
Author: The Highway Transportation Story
Author: The Highway Transportation Story, in Facts
Author: National Highway Users ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Highway Transportation in the Americas
Author: Institute of World AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Our Nation's Highways
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The information in this publication provides a condensed overview of facts and figures about the Nation's highways.
Highway Fact Book
Author: Highway Users Federation for Safety and MobilityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Highways and Highway Transportation
Author: George Richard ChatburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Road Taken
Author: Henry PetroskiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
Proceedings of the ... Highway Transportation Congress
Author: Highways and Highway Transportation (Classic Reprint)
Author: George Richard ChatburnPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265592144
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Excerpt from Highways and Highway Transportation The following pages on Highways and Highway Trans portation do not pretend to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject, but rather a glimpse of the vast development ofthe humble road and its office as an agency for transportation. Possibly the grandeur of the mountains is best appreciated by one who lives among them, who climbs their acclivitous heights, who daily experiences their power and majesty, and measures their magnitude by grim muscular exertion. But, even so, it would be foolish to contend that he who gets his information from the seat of a Pullman car receives no benefit from the hasty glimpse, or, that his imagination is not quickened and cultured by the experience. In writ ing this book, then, I have had constantly in mind the myriads of people who have not the time, and possibly not the facilities, to search the pages of the literature of the past for the origin and development, or to work out their present importance, of our amplification of roads and of road uses. It is felt that many of these people laudably desire a conversational knowledge of the origin, evolution and present status of highway transportation, even though it be glimpsed by a'very rapid passage through a very large subject. The primary objects have therefore been, to sketch briefly and simply the development of the transportation systems of the United States, to indicate their importance and mutual relations, to present some practical methods used in the operation of highway transport and to make occa sional suggestions for the betterment of the road as a usable machine for the benefit and pleasure of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.