The Interstate Highway System

The technology we now have in vehicles was something that nobody would have thought possible in the early 1800's, we currently have vehicles that run on just electricity and cars that get better gas mileage per mile then earlier cars got with a whole tank of gas. This makes life easier and it also makes cars a lot cheaper to run for everyone. These advances made it much easier to get around the

     In this year Henry Ford created the first affordable, combustion engine car called the Model-T. The creation of the Model-T changed the lives of every American. Vehicles were looked at as a way of freedom and excitement. Soon after, every household in America had a car. The demand for vehicles sparked a whole new industry, creating jobs, more revenues and improving the American economy in every way. With so many vehicles on the roads, roads needed to

Cars in the 1920s completely impacted daily life and greatly influenced the cars that we use everyday. Back before cars were popular, everyone traveled by horse and buggy. They had no source of cart heating, nothing to absorb shock, wheels without tires. All they had for streets back then were dirt roads with a top layer of gravel. This was not a problem for horses and buggies, but cars didn’t handle well in the mud. Because of this, the invention of the paved road we use now came about. After that, they needed a more organized and efficient way to navigate to faraway places, since the people could now travel at ease. An interstate highway system was created as a result of the First Federal Highway Act, passed in 1921. The highways heading

Henry Ford once said, “If everything is moving forward together then success takes care of itself”. Society has been revising how we live for centuries and still continues to do so. Naturally, we look for ways to improve humanity and make the world a better place to live. One critical contributor to the success of society in the 1920s was Henry Ford. Henry Ford’s ingenuity gave birth to something that would revolutionize society for years to come. This was the beginning of a new era. Henry Ford’s automobiles revolutionized civilization in many aspects. Innovations in technology and how it’s made impacted people’s lives in the 1920s and modern-day life.

In the midst of  Cold War, under threat of a nuclear attack, the United States government was looking for a way to increase the speed of transporting military personnel,  resources, and people quickly across the US in a dynamic fashion. The Interstate highway was the most effective plan that was spawned as it could be easily repaired in the event of the nuclear attack, and it would regionally connect the entire nation. Although the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was a costly federal spending program burdened with exorbitant maintenance costs,the construction of the Interstate Highway system proved to advance the nation economically with the facilitation of interstate transportation of goods allowing faster trade at lower costs, socially the

Eisenhower's goals as president had involved downsizing the military. By spending less money on defense, Eisenhower had believed Americans could spend more on infrastructure and the quality of living in the United States. And he did just that with the creation of America’s first interstate highways system. General Eisenhower went from coordinating the largest military operation the world has ever seen, to pushing the world's largest work project which would be known as the Federal Highway Act of 1956. With this act, General Eisenhower had changed the face of America, creating one of the largest cultural changes in the history of the United States. He had organized that 90% of the cost for this project would handled in the Highway Trust Fund, which came from taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, while 10% of the cost would come from the states. Eisenhower’s endorsement for the Federal-Aid Highway Act can be directly credited to his experiences as a member in the U.S Army’s first Transcontinental Motor Convoy across the United States. At 28 years of age the young Lieutenant colonel had written a chapter in his book At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends about his experiences traveling cross country. His experience had convinced him to support an interstate system. He had supported highways for the purpose of a national defence. “In the event of a ground invasion by a foreign power, the U.S Army would need good highways to transport troops across

Threats of substitutes: In U.S., an automobile was considered as necessity so for every adult there was car on roads. Even for inter-city travel more than 70% time cars were used. Buses, trains and other means didn’t have much impact. The growing array of higher priced imported models had negative effect.

America had desired good roads all the way back in the 1800s. The federal government’s support of interstate roads can be traced back to the endorsement of the National Road by President Thomas Jefferson in 1808. This highway was to cross the Alleghany Mountains between Cumberland, Maryland and the Ohio River at Wheeling, Virginia. This road was to be a crushed stone surface that wagon wheels could travel on without their wheels creating ruts which they would get stuck in. Eventually the road extended from Baltimore, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois. Americans lost interest in highways temporarily when railroads enabled people to travel quickly and cheaply across the country. The Good Roads Movement, a call for better roads, picked up after

In 1932, the first gasoline tax was created and cost consumers one-cent per gallon. Over the past 80 years, this tax has constantly increased. Events such as the Korean War in 1951 and the construction of interstate highway systems in 1959 caused the tax to raise to its current level of 18.4 cents per gallon, which is its current rate (Williams, 2005). Revenues collected have been utilized for a variety of purposes. For almost 20 years between 1932 and 1956, taxes collected were allocated to the general fund. The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 established the Highway Trust Fund, where all monies collected were allocated until 1983 when some funds were placed in a mass transit account. Today, 15.44 cents of every 18.4 cents is allocated to the Highway Transit Fund (Buechner, 2007).

The automobile’s invention revolutionized the American transportation system. It allowed people to move themselves and cargo from city-to-city and state-to-state in a much faster and efficient manner. Its numbers increased as it gained popularity and became affordable. This led to the development of road networks both within and between cities. Problems arose in the areas where roads intersected each other; accidents occurred at these intersections due to the lack in control of vehicular movements. Cities employed people to direct traffic at busy intersections to address this issue, but eventually the intersections became too numerous to control using this method. The development of automated

Nothing that has occurred in the last several years in Texas has been quite as controversial as the new and increased usage of toll roads for new road construction. We have heard many statements that the toll roads are being built as a money-making system for the state (and the Department of Transportation). Statements have also been made to the effect that the state is "selling" the state, one length of roadway at a time; that the current roads could be maintained by the state, with current state funding levels. The main complaint is that the roads of Texas have always been free, and should continue to be free. But are these arguments correct?

The creation of the twentieth century. There also was a social rank the wealthy could only own the electric light and cars were first because they were the only ones that could pay for it. When there was the higher incomes made the importance to people to have more money and spend it on cars and goods during this time especially after the great depression people went from basically broke to having some money to spend on stuff. Much thanks to cars there was a big production of roads that were made over time and it also connects distant places and communities. One of the very most known highways in the United States is “Route 66” that connects the Midwest and southern California. With cars in being in high demand business started wanting products to be sent to other places. During the 1900’s when millions of people left their home to live in the city in the United States also provided immigrants and other minority groups jobs at assembly lines and other specialized jobs. In the 1920’s the U.S. government became more involved with making the roads matter to connect t major cities. Through 1939-1945 the U.S. government Sayed no production on cars because the U.S. was focusing on the war needs. Company like General Motor Company’s started working on warplanes, guns, tanks, ammunition and armored cars for people now a days their car represents more than their social status. During the three were war posters incourgening the war production effort with the saying “keep’em firing”. In 1956 was when the “Highway Act” was made and it builded a system of insterstate highways. In 1960’s there was a cioncern about air pollution and that’s how the idea started for electric cars. There is about eight hundred million passenger’s cars that people drive across the world roads and highways. In the 1920’s and 1970’s there were some scares about

Under MAP-21, the enhanced National Highway System (NHS) is composed of approximately 220,000 miles of rural and urban roads serving major population centers, international border crossings, intermodal transportation facilities, and major travel destinations. It includes the Interstate System, all principal arterials (including some not previously designated as part of the NHS) and border crossings on those routes, highways that provide motor vehicle access between the NHS and major intermodal transportation facilities, and the network of highways important to U.S. strategic defense (STRAHNET) and its connectors to major military installations. The NHPP is authorized at an average of $21.8 billion per year to support the condition and performance

With the development of the extensive Eisenhower Interstate Highway System in the 1950s, both long-distance trips and daily the commute were mostly by private automobile. This network was designed to exacting federal standards in order to receive federal funding. The system, as of 2010, has a total length of 47,182 miles (75,932 km),[13] making it the world's second longest after China's, and the largest public works project

The above description of highway asset management mentions a number of key themes including optimal allocation of resoruces, efficiency and sustainability. These are crucial elements to ensure adequate management of a highway network. It has been suggested that using high recycled content asphalt mixes can play a large role in reducing costs and environmental impacts of