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This image is a work of a United States Department of Transportation employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain .
A map of the Strategic Highway Network, one component of the NHS Map of average freight truck traffic on the NHS in 2015. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the 160,000-mile (260,000 km) National Highway System includes roads important to the United States' economy, defense, and mobility, from one or more of the following road networks (specific routes may be part of more than ...
1946 Shell Map of United States - TCN7JM (talk · contribs) 1947 Rand McNally road atlas - Fredddie (talk · contribs) 1966 General Drafting (Esso) United States featuring The Interstate Highway System - Dough4872 (talk · contribs) 1981 Hammond road atlas - Scott5114 (talk · contribs) 1982 Rand McNally road atlas - Mitchazenia (talk · contribs)
The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]
The following 22 pages use this file: 1956 in the United States; Controlled-access highway; Driving in the United States; Economy of the United States; Highway systems by country; List of auxiliary Interstate Highways; List of business routes of the Interstate Highway System; List of gaps in Interstate Highways; List of transport megaprojects
Within the route log, "U.S. Route" is used in the table of contents, while "United States Highway" appears as the heading for each route. All reports of the Special Committee on Route Numbering since 1989 use "U.S. Route", and federal laws relating to highways use "United States Route" or "U.S. Route" more often than the "Highway" variants.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. traffic deaths fell by 3.6% in 2023, the second straight yearly decline, but are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels, auto safety regulators said on Monday.
The highway system of the United States is a network of interconnected state, U.S., and Interstate highways. Each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands own and maintain a part of this vast system, including U.S. and Interstate highways, which are not owned or maintained at the federal level.