Author: Kant Rao
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Transportation Research Forum
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Frank Thomas Sheets
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Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Author: Kenneth Coates
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844116
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Few construction projects of the twentieth century match the building of the Alaska Highway for drama, setting, and engineering challenge. In recognition of the 40th anniversary of this epidsode in Canadian-American cooperation, a symposium was held at Fort St. John, one of several communities that were, and still are, profoundly affected by the building of the road. The papers presented at this interdisciplinary gathering of international scholars of the Canadian and American births illustrate the significance of the highway in such diverse spheres as Canadian-American relations, British Columbia politics, American military history, and the evolution of the northern society.

Author: Henry Petroski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863626
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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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.