Transportation Engineering: Transportation Engineering History

In this ebook, Tom Lewis charts and analyzes the development of the U.S. Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators. Lewis follows the story to the present, concluding with Boston's troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.

This ebook reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations' pathways. This international collection of readings providing a description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of transport and communication across pre-modern cultures. It explores the societal, cultural, and religious implications of various ancient transportation networks.

In this ebook, Hudson examines travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states, from the founding of the U.S., when settlers and slaves traveled Indian trading paths and federal post roads, until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s. Hudson focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek Indian lands and the new states; the development of roads, canals, and other internal improvements within these territories; and the ways that Indians, settlers, and slaves understood, contested, and collaborated on these boundaries and transit networks.

The roads within America's national park system epitomize the challenge of how to balance environmental protection with public access. This book brings together 331 measured and interpretive drawings that illustrate the physical characteristics, design strategies, construction practices, and visitor experiences of roads and parkways in national parks from Acadia to Zion. This book has practical applications for engineers, landscape architects, and cultural resource specialists in guiding design decisions, interpreting historic sites, and informing contemporary debates on preservation and environmental protection.

This pamphlet gives historical information on state trunk lines including their evolution from indian trails, how they were funded, legislation that significantly affected them, and how frequently they are traveled. Also available online.

This ebook documents trails, paths, and roads across different times and cultures, from those made by hunter-gatherers in North America to causeways in the Bolivian Amazon to Bronze Age towns in the Near East, examined through aerial and satellite photography, surface survey, historic records, and archaeological excavation. The essays show how labor, technology, terrain, landscape features, access, and ownership factored in the development of paths, trails, and roads that served as an important organizing element of civilization.

In the early 1900s, travel by car between European countries was made difficult as drivers often paid high "import duties" on their cars as they crossed borders and had to pass different driving test in each country. This ebook describes the economic and political negotiations and agreements that helped integrate European infrastructure and made it much easier to travel across borders.

A history of the world's roads and vehicles from prehistoric pathways, through the rise of animal-powered wheeled vehicles, to the development of surfaced roads and the rise of automobiles.

What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? This ebook describes all forms of public transport from canal boats to oceangoing vessels, passenger trains to the overland stage. John H. White Jr. discusses not only the means of travel but also the people who made the system run-riverboat pilots, locomotive engineers, stewards, stagecoach drivers, seamen.

In this ebook, Wells takes readers on a lively tour of the evolution of American landscape, from the dawn of the motor age to the establishment of the Interstate Highway System and the rise of the suburbs. Wells charts the ways that new transportation policies and land-use practices have combined to reshape nearly every element of the built environment around the easy movement of automobiles.