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Highway Statistics Summary to 1955
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1957-01-01
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Abstract:This bulletin provides a general historical summary of information dealing with highways, their use, and financing, thus bringing together under one cover a comprehensive statistical review of highway development in the United States through 1955. It includes all of the data presented in "Highway Statistics, Summary to 1945," thereby replacing that publication, and adds thereto most of the material published since then in the "Highway Statistics" annual bulletins. The material is presented in four major groupings. The motor-fuel section includes analyses of motor-fuel consumption, tax rates, and tax receipts. The section on motor vehicles includes tables on motor-vehicle registrations and operators' licenses, their fee schedules, and the revenues received therefrom and from motor-carrier taxes; also included in this section are travel, loading, and speed data. The highway finance section covers the disposition of highway-user imposts, receipts and expenditures for highways, and highway debt; because of the interest in the subject, data for toll facilities are segregated. Although the local finance historical series are not presented separately in this bulletin, combined State and local government finance data are reported in several series of tables. The mileage section reports road and street mileage existing, and the mileage built each year, classified by system and by type. The section on Federal aid includes tables on Federal excise taxes and on Federal-aid funds, construction, and system mileage. Emphasis has been placed on the presentation of data in table form. Within the limited space offered by a single volume of this size, only the most widely used data could be presented. Where possible the tables have been arranged in numbered series; each series includes information through 1955, and has been carried back as far as possible, the earliest year being dependent on the availability of information. The short texts introducing each section of the bulletin are included principally to define terms and describe the information presented; because this bulletin is essentially a compilation of statistics, philosophic discussions have been omitted. The footnotes to the tables include a considerable amount of important explanatory and supplementary information. The data presented have been obtained largely from State annual reports and through the cooperative efforts of State and local officials, particularly those of the State highway departments. The bulletin was prepared under the general direction of E. M. Cope, Chief, Highway Statistics Branch. The data were compiled and consolidated for presentation under supervision of W. R. Mccallum, Chief, Highway Finance Section, by David Sacks, Transportation Economist. A list of the principal publications of the Bureau of Public Roads appears on the inside of the back cover of this bulletin. As indicated there, the publications are for sale only by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Of particular interest, in relation to this bulletin, are the annual "Highway Statistics" series and the two publications "The Financing of Highways by Counties and Local Rural Governments" covering the periods 1931-41 and 1942-51.
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