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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online. Eckermann, Erik. World history of the automobile (SAE International, 2001). Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios ...
Timeline of motor vehicle brands; Timeline of motorized bicycle history; O. ... Timeline of transportation technology
Transportation companies based in Texas (2 C, 11 P) Transportation on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (4 C) Texas transportation-related lists (3 C, 10 P)
The history of rail transportation dates back nearly 500 years and includes systems with man or horsepower and rails of wood (or occasionally stone). This was usually for moving coal from the mine down to a river, from where it could continue by boat, with a flanged wheel running on a rail.
The Longhorn and Western Railroad is the Texas Transportation Museum's standard gauge heritage railroad that operates on its property with no connection to the general rail system. The L&W consists of approximately 5 ⁄ 8 -mile (1.0 km) of trackage in total, with its mainline that runs 1 ⁄ 3 -mile (0.54 km) from the east and west ends of the ...
The History of Texas License Plates – 80th Anniversary Edition (PDF). Austin, Texas: Texas Department of Transportation. March 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 October 2012 An extensive history and catalog of Texas license plates.
American Heritage History of Flight (1962) Grant, H. Roger. Transportation and the American People (Indiana UP, 2019). Herrendorf, Berthold, James A. Schmitz, Jr, and Arilton Teixeira. "The role of transportation in US economic development: 1840–1860." International Economic Review 53.3 (2012): 693–716.