Highways and Highway Transportation

Stages of Civilization: Direct Appropriation; Pastoral; Agricultural -- Manorial and Feudal Systems; Handicraft -- Merchant Guilds, Effect upon Trade, Domestic System, Governmen...

First Settlements near Coast. Birch Bark Canoe, Meagerness of Roads. Settlement follows Waterways. Portages. Lines of Travel -- Through Alleghanies, from the North, Boone’s Trac...

Coastal, Inlets, Rivers, Creeks. Canals -- Europe, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Other States; Passenger Traffic on; Prosperity and Desuetude. Ship Canals: Sault Ste. Marie, Cap...

Origin and Early Development. Optimism of Promoters. Early Locomotives. First Chartered Railroad -- Charleston and Hamburg, First Passenger Car on Baltimore and Ohio, New York C...

Neglect and Desuetude of Wagon Roads, 1830-1890. Laying out and Working Roads, Statutory Width of Roads. Influence of Bicycle for Better Roads: Origin of Bicycle, Development, O...

Classification of Transportation. Railroads have not always Acted Honorably. Quantity Production and Division of Labor Applied to Railway Transportation, to Motor Transport. Aut...

Defined, Radical Changes to be Expected. Business Passenger Traffic: Jitney and Taxicab, Motor Bus -- Qualifications, Fares, Competition with Street Cars, Cross-country Service,...

Object of a Road. Road Classification: Agricultural. Recreational, Commercial, Military. Problem of the Road Planner: Economy, Accommodation, Utilizing Existing Roads. Essential...

Production Defined, Productive Activities -- Change of Form, Change of Place, Change of Time. Nature and Labor. Capital -- Stored up Labor. Marketing -- Wholesaling and Retailin...

Origin and Reasons for Road Work. Working out Road Tax Abolished. Private Financing, Public Financing. Taxation: Tax Defined, Classified. Direct Taxes -- Levied Uniformly. Indir...

Accidents Result of Disorder, Codes to Prevent, Automobile Accidents Lead in Number. Causes: The Driver -- Mentally or Physically Unfit, Ignorant, Indifferent, Reckless; Driving...

Indispensable Elements of Architecture -- Stability, Utility, Beauty. Esthetic Sense -- Applied to Roads, to Landscape Gardening. Styles -- Natural and Formal. Application to Ro...

Pleasure Riding -- Extent, Advantages to a Community to Have Tourists Pass through, Ranking and Parking, Parking Spaces a Convenience to Motorists -- Space for and Angle of Park...

As the several peoples inhabiting the earth have progressed from barbarism through the different stages of civilization, the transportation occasioned by their wants and desires...

MOMMSEN, PROFESSOR THEODOR, “The History of the Roman Republic,” Abridgment by Bryans and Hendy, pp. 95, 97, 98, 108, 175, 219, 251, 318, 319, 320. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New...

The early settlements of this country were made upon the shores, naturally, because the settlers were brought by ships from Europe and supplies of various sorts were from time t...

From the earliest exploration and settlement periods rivers and coast inlets have been used for transportation. As has been pointed out, the Indian, before the coming of the whi...

During the period of the development of the canals there was growing up along side of them an agency for transportation that was destined practically to put them out of business...

[101] Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.” University of Wisconsin Bulletin: “Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways,” by J. B. Sanborn, Pol. Sci. and History Ser...

Gone are the long picturesque lines of emigrant and freight wagons, with their conestogas, their stage coaches, their oxen, their mules and horses; gone are the hospitable inns...

Transportation has been classified as primary and secondary. Transportation on the public highway, whether of raw products to the market or finished products to the consumer, is...

Enough has been said to intimate a firm belief that the railways as purveyors of secondary transportation will persist. On economic grounds if for no other reason, for no cheape...

Automotive transportation is a matter of such recent growth that only a few of the elements entering it have as yet become fixed or standardized--the whole question is still in...

effect of a daily mail upon the inhabitants of the rural districts has been most remarkable. Through its means these people are no longer isolated, they know daily what is trans...

A road is a strip of land set apart or appropriated for travel, public or private. When a road has been dedicated to the public or has been used so long that the public has a le...

The creation of economic utilities by the application of the mental and physical powers of man to the materials of nature is called production. Grass grew abundantly for thousan...

Highway financing may be divided for consideration into two parts, namely: financing the road and financing the operation of the road. Both are necessary if goods are to be tran...

It may be true that accidents are commonly the result of disorder, but as there seems to be no panacea for disorder, accidents cannot entirely be prevented. The best thing that...

One test for success is the degree of satisfaction produced. A successful book satisfies the majority of its readers. A machine is successful when it performs the duties intende...

It is a well-recognized fact that pleasure riding constitutes by far the greater part of automobile riding. With ten million pleasure cars and two million trucks that is obvious...