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Highway Planning in the Past, Present, and Future

Edward H. Holmes, John T. Lynch

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Highway planning on a comprehensive scale has been conducted jointly by the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Commerce (BPR), and the state highway departments since 1935. Facts have been assembled and highway needs determined that have greatly affected state and federal legislation. Methods must be perfected in order to keep the studies of the needs up to date and to project them into the future.

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Highway planning on a comprehensive scale has been conducted jointly by the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Commerce (BPR), and the state highway departments since 1935. Facts have been assembled and highway needs determined that have greatly affected state and federal legislation. Methods must be perfected in order to keep the studies of the needs up to date and to project them into the future.

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Highway planning on a comprehensive scale has been conducted jointly by the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Commerce (BPR), and the state highway departments since 1935. Facts have been assembled and highway needs determined that have greatly affected state and federal legislation. Methods must be perfected in order to keep the studies of the needs up to date and to project them into the future.

Key concepts: Legislation, State (computer science), State highway, Business, Public work, Transport engineering, Order (exchange), Highway engineering

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