Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780309051668
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Safety Rest Areas, Roadway Vegetation, and Utility and Highway Issues 1991
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780309051668
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management
Author: Robert L. BergerPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309070228
Category : Roadside improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 341: Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management examines the incorporation of integrated roadside vegetation management decision-making processes into highway project planning, design, construction, and maintenance. The report also documents existing roadside vegetation management research and practice.
Safety Rest Areas, Roadway, Vegetation, and Utility Highway Issues 1991
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Motoring
Author: John A. JaklePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.
Highway Research Abstracts
Author: Legacy Parkway Project, Construction from I-215 at 2100 North in Salt Lake City to I-15 and US 89 Near Farmington
Author: Publications - Transportation Research Board
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publications Catalog
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Synthesis of Highway Practice
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research ProgramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description