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	U.S. Highway system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Interstate highway system of limited access highways was begun in the 1950s as the National Defense Highway System.
		Similar systems are the informal National Auto Trail system (which was used before the U.S. Highway System) and the Interstate Highway System (which has partially replaced the U.S. Highway System).
		The United States Highway System is an integrated system of roads in the United States numbered within a nationwide grid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_highway (797 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Interstate Highway System
		Part of the nationwide Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, Georgia's interstate highways helped establish the state—especially its capital, Atlanta—as a vital transportation hub for the Southeast.
		The interstate highway system was built to consistent design standards requiring limited access, wide lanes, paved shoulders, at least four lanes, and accommodation for speeds of up to seventy miles per hour.
		I-516 is a spur highway in Savannah, and I-520 is Augusta's perimeter highway.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2423 (695 words)

	Interstate Highway System: Later Road Development: Wisconsin History Explorer of the Wisconsin Historical Society
		Nationally, with connection of the control points, the interstate highway system would serve 90 percent of the cities in the United States with populations over 50,000, 65 percent of the urban population, and 50 percent of the rural population.
		The system included necessary connections through and around cities that would meet the requirements of the national defense in time of war, as well as the increasing demands of traffic.
		Although the interstate highway system was not completed nationwide until the 1970s, it had been in the planning stages for nearly half a century.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /archstories/late_roads/interstate_system.asp (1454 words)

	i-75
		It is part of the National Defense Highway System.
		This limited access highway planned in the 1950s roughly follows the general route of the older at grade United States Highway 27, which in turn replaced the western route of the old Dixie Highway.
		Interstate 75 is an interstate highway in the midwest and southeastern United States.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /I-75.html (216 words)

	Mass transit or fixing the roads: the fight for the federal dollar (July 5, 2003)
		Federal and state gas tax funds were used primarily to build the U.S. Interstate Highway System, launched as the "National Defense Highway System" under President Eisenhower in the 1950s.
		For 40 of the past 50 years, national policies have been heavily focused on extending the road infrastructure.
		But at least half of that - between $4 million and $5 million in state and federal funding - has gone to the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, the Cape's public bus system.
	www.capecodonline.com /special/capecar/masstransit5.htm (998 words)

	The U.S. Highway System
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 was the first serious attempt to develop a national roadway system.
		This act expanded the network to 65,000 km (40,391 mi) and charged state highway agencies and the Department of Defense with planning nationwide routes that would directly connect the country's major cities and industrial centers.
		At the beginning of the 20th century, an uninterrupted system of nationwide highways did not exist.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0881994.html (568 words)

	Michigan Highways: In Depth: National Highway System
		"Provide an interconnected system of principal arterial routes which will serve major population centers, international border crossings, ports, airports, public transportation facilities, and other intermodal transportation facilities and other major travel destinations; meet national defense requirements; and serve interstate and interregional travel."
		The National Highway System (NHS) is, as the name implies, a nationwide system of primary highways and, although designated on a national basis, maintained by each of the states.
		The NHS was created as a part of the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995, signed into law on November 28, 1995 and expanded a few years later as a part of the Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21), signed on June 9, 1998.
	www.michiganhighways.org /indepth/nhs.html (274 words)

	National Highway System
		The National Highway System (NHS) includes the following subsystems of roadways (note that a specific highway route may be on more than one subsystem):
		Highway Systems - Federal-Aid Policy Guide - policies and procedures relating to the identification of federal-aid highways, functional classification of roads and streets, the designation of urban area boundaries, and the designation of routes on the Federal-aid highway system.
		Strategic Highway Network(STRAHNET): This is a network of highways which are important to the United States' strategic defense policy and which provide defense access, continuity and emergency capabilities for defense purposes.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /hep10/nhs (643 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System
		Because of the significance of the interstate system to national defense, Fallon changed the official name to the "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways." This new name remained in all future House versions and was adopted in 1956.
		Because the interstate system "is preponderantly national in scope and function," the report recommended that the federal government pay most of the cost of its construction.
		However, 1954 was a year in which a new federal-aid highway act would be needed, and from the start, during the State of the Union Address on Jan. 7, Eisenhower made clear that he was ready to turn his attention to the nation's highway problems.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su10.htm (5395 words)

	The US Interstate Highway System: 40 Year Report
		While estimates for the interstate highway system alone are not available, the efficiency and substantial role of the interstates leads to a reasonable presumption of their important contribution to international competitiveness.
		When the system was approved --- during one of the most instable periods of the Cold War, national security dictated development of an efficient national highway system that could move large numbers of military personnel and huge quantities of military equipment and supplies.
		Again, while a separate estimate for the interstate highway system is not available, the superiority and efficiency of the interstate highway system leads to a reasonable presumption of substantial contribution.
	www.publicpurpose.com /freeway1.htm (10436 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Spring 1996) - The National Highway System: A Commitment To America's Future
		To meet these demands and to extend the benefits of the Interstate Highway System to areas that are not served directly by it, we responded to the mandate of Congress and developed the concept of a national highway system as a way of focusing federal resources on the nation's most important roads.
		The fifth component is the rest of the system - about 148,000 km of important arterial highways that serve interstate and interregional travel and that provide connections to major ports, airports, public transportation facilities, and other intermodal facilities.
		He was formerly the chairman of the Arkansas State Highway Commission and a member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Executive Committee of Commissions and Boards.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/spring96/p96sp2.htm (1444 words)

	National Highway System
		Included in the national system is a identification of major intermodal terminals (rail-truck terminals, maritime ports, airports, and intermodal passenger facilities) and the highways that provide connections between these intermodal facilities and the NHS.
		The National Highway System (NHS) consists of a network of over 178,000 miles of interconnected urban and rural principal arterials and highways serving major population centers, international border crossings, ports, airports, public transportation facilities, other intermodal transportation facilities and major travel destinations.
		The Emergency Highway Traffic Regulation (EHTR) is a regulation that contains plans, routes, and schedule of the actual use of highways to help the orderly flow of traffic during a national emergency.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/nhs.htm (366 words)

	Defending Our National Security
		When President Eisenhower went to Kansas to announce his interstate highway system, back in the first part of his administration, he announced it as "the National Defense Highway System." He said, part of our national security and defense is a strong infrastructure, tying this nation together.
		In my lifetime, when a president of the United States spoke about national security to the Congress or the public, he was referring to the military arsenal--the megatons, the number of tanks, the number of planes, and the number of missiles.
		The one president who saw what truly constitutes national security happened to be a five-star general, one of the last places you would expect to find this kind of broad understanding of this concept.
	www.lclark.edu /dept/collcomm/hatfield.html (2095 words)

	Chomsky goes HWN
		It was called the National Defense Highway System, and was responsible for building many of the first freeways.
		They'll cut off unprofitable routes, ensure that the system is mostly available to the rich, and get rid of unions.
		Its purpose was supposedly to allow for mass evacuation of cities in the event of a nuclear attack, but, in effect, it was a way of shifting the country from public transportation to automobiles, trucks, and airplanes.
	www.angelfire.com /ct/cmwd/chomsky.html (367 words)

	Montana SB 355
		Footpaths and bicycle trails may be constructed along all sections of the national defense interstate highway system.
		Footpaths and bicycle trails may be established and extended to the nearest city or town or termination point of the highway or road wherever a highway, road, or street is being constructed, reconstructed, or relocated.
		may also be expended to construct footpaths and bicycle trails along other highways, roads, and streets and in parks and recreation areas if the construction enhances traffic safety and convenience.
	data.opi.state.mt.us /bills/billhtml/sb0355.htm (259 words)

	Herb York: Race to Oblivion [1970]
		The science and technology apparatus of the Defense Department, especially that part of it in the Office of the Secretary of Defense itself, had proved to be not quite adequate for handling the situation.
		This director was to report directly to the Secretary of Defense and was to function generally at the same level of authority and responsibility as the three service Secretaries.
		This meant he was to have not only the kind of staff responsibility the other Assistant Secretaries of Defense had, but, in addition, real and direct authority over all research, development, test, and evaluation programs in all components of the Department of Defense, specifically including the three services as well as the new ARPA.
	www.learnworld.com /ZNW/LWText.York.Race.Ch06.html (5643 words)

	America's Best Hope
		All things considered, looking at the national passenger rail system that is still in existence today (at least until October), and the new, modern trains which have now replaced all the rolling junk of 1971, Amtrak has done a remarkable job during the past 31 and 1/2 years.
		The national intercity rail system was intended to provide the American public with a SERVICE, and should be measured by its accomplishment of that mission, and funded accordingly.
		A national system of intercity trains must be a part of America's transport network.
	www.trainweb.com /travelogues/stevegrande/2002c01b.html (1077 words)

	FHWA Route Log and Finder List
		The FHWA may also, at the request of a State or States, add highways to the Interstate System that are designated as National Highway System (NHS) high priority corridors and future parts of the Interstate System in Section 1105 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA).
		The Interstate System connects 45 of the 50 State capitals, as well as the Nation's Capital, Washington, D.C. The five State capitals not directly served by the Interstate System are Juneau, Alaska; Dover, Delaware; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carson City, Nevada; and Pierre, South Dakota.
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 called on the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), the predecessor of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), to study the feasibility of a toll-financed system of three east-west and three north-south superhighways.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /reports/routefinder (2971 words)

	UTU: News
		Today there is bipartisan support for the proposed National Defense Rail Act authored by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., which would provide $4.6 billion a year for five years.
		Although the federal government funds the nation's highways and airports, it only subsidizes the nation's passenger rail service, devoting less than 9 percent of the total transportation budget to rail, Dukakis said.
		The Oct. 1 deadline, combined with Hollings' bill, is expected to fuel a national debate on the importance of long-distance rail lines.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=989 (903 words)

	Soul In Code: July 15, 2004 Archives
		Like the Internet network's dependence on defense funding for ARPANET's original R&D, the highway system was funded by the military industrial complex primarily to move military equipment and personnel efficiently.
		Spread out across the nation's highways like a new coat of asphalt, this new surface would provide a large amount of energy to add to the road as electricity grid.
		Leonard C Lewin wrote inReport from Iron Mountain On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, "It is an incorrect assumption that war, as an institution, is subordinate to the social systems it is believe to serve...War itself is the basic social system, within which other secondary modes of social organization conflict or conspire.
	www.soulincode.com /archives/2004_07_15.html (1178 words)

	Find in a Library: An Act to Redesignate the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
		An Act to Redesignate the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
		Find in a Library: An Act to Redesignate the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2649efa33e931a3ea19afeb4da09e526.html (112 words)

	Transportation: Always an issue in the U.S.=TheHill.com=
		It also didn’t help that the interstate system is funded by a trust fund that’s fed by federal gas taxes.
		Lawmakers also decreed that at least one mile in every five must be ruler straight, making the system usable as airstrips in wartime or other emergencies.
		In 1803, Congress earmarked funds from land sales in Ohio to finance the building of a 20-foot-wide National Pike from Cumberland, Md., to Wheeling in what’s now West Virginia.
	www.hillnews.com /glass/052003.aspx (728 words)

	Geography 4742 Land Use Analysis
		Mass produced autos, plus integrated road and highway system---not by accident but by policy, all allowed the modern suburbs.
	www.colorado.edu /geography/courses/geog_4742-002_f04/notes_1012.htm (320 words)

	HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 15 - Nat'l Hwy System Act/agric operatn
		HJM015........................................by TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM DESIGNATION ACT - Stating findings of the Legislature and urging the Congressional delegation from the state of Idaho to support and cosponsor federal legislation which protects the agricultural operations exemption in the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995.
		IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 15 BY TRANSPORTATION AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE 1 A JOINT MEMORIAL 2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS 3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF 4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
		STATEMENT OF PURPOSE RS 13769 Because of concerns regarding the Federal Bioterrorism Act, the United States Department of Transportation issued a "guidance" determining that poultry, livestock, and feed grains were not "agricultural commodities".
	www3.state.id.us /oasis/2004/HJM015.html (306 words)

	Encyclopedia: National Defense Highway System
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Defense-Highway-System (63 words)

	Interstate Highway - Wikipedia
		The interstate system was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956.
		One potential civil defense use of the Interstate highway system is for the emergency evacuation of cities in the event of a potential nuclear war.
		Although construction on the Interstate Highway system continues, it was officially regarded as complete in 1991 (though 5.6 miles of the original planned route remain either unconstructed, or not yet open [1]).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Defense_Highway_System (63 words)

	Electronic Code of Federal Regulations:
		Federal-aid highway systems means the National Highway System and the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (the “Interstate System”).
		(1) The National Highway System shall consist of interconnected urban and rural principal arterials and highways (including toll facilities) which serve major population centers, international border crossings, ports, airports, public transportation facilities, other intermodal transportation facilities and other major travel destinations; meet national defense requirements; and serve interstate and interregional travel.
		The proposed route should connect to the Interstate System at each end, with the exception of Interstate routes that connect with continental routes at an international border, or terminate in a “major highway traffic generator” that is not served by another Interstate route.
	ecfr.gpoaccess.gov /cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=3ecfd4573812ca81876f356518723d9b&rgn=div5&view=text&node=23:1.0.1.5.13&idno=23 (63 words)

	Legislation to Approve the National Highway System and Ancillary Issues Relating to Highway and Transit Programs
		The National Highway System is a critical segment of the defense transportation system.
		The National Highway System is critical to the Department of Defense's capability to deploy military units and equipment rapidly.
		The proposed National Highway System is a 678-mile subset of the MTS, and in the testimony I submitted to you earlier, I had an error, it said 648 miles, it is 678 miles in our region of National Highway System.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/Trans/hpw104-15.000/hpw104-15_3.HTM (63 words)

	Public Roads: The National Highway System: backbone of our national transportation network
		As we found during Desert Storm, highway mobility is essential to our national defense by giving us the ability to move troops and equipment to airports, to ports, to rail lines, and to other bases for rapid deployment.
		Slater explained NHS in detail: "The first component of the proposed National Highway System is the 45,000-mile interstate system, which accounts for nearly 30 percent of the proposed system mileage.
		ISTEA directed DOT to use the illustrative system as the starting point for a report to Congress in two years, identifying highways proposed to be designated as part of a 155,000-mile NHS (plus or minus 15 percent).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3724/is_n3_v57/ai_14979060 (63 words)

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