When the post office made a controversial policy change to process mail in large regional " sectional centers ," mail was now sorted by large machines, not by people, and the remaining railway post office routes, along with all highway post office routes, were phased out of service.

A highway truck handled mail and express shipments for ten days until engine number 4 was repaired.

Passengers, mail, and express were carried in a Slate Company highway truck when the locomotive required repairs.

In 1950, when the railroad finally lost its mail contract ( in favor of highway mail carriers ), # 3, # 4, # 5, and # 7 were converted for tourist operations, and the " Galloping Goose " name was officially recognized by the railroad.

The main European routes for the highway and railway transportation of freight cross in Basel.

Regional transportation networks have also changed significantly in recent decades with port modernizations, with new expressways and ongoing arterial highway construction, the abandonment of various low-capacity railway branchlines ( including the entire railway system of Prince Edward Island and southwestern Nova Scotia ), and the construction of the Canso Causeway and the Confederation Bridge.

Caltrans manages the state highway system ( which includes the California Freeway and Expressway System ) and is actively involved with public transportation systems throughout the state.

In 1955, the Soviet Union forwarded $ 100 million in credit to Afghanistan, which financed public transportation, airports, a cement factory, mechanized bakery, a five-lane highway from Kabul to the Soviet border and dams.

At the center was a huge transportation hub, that on different levels included depots for buses and trains, as well as highway intersections, and at the top, an airport.

In 1995, the main means of transportation in Moldova were railroads () and a highway system ( overall, including of paved surfaces ).

The NTSB was established in 1967 as the federal government's primary accident investigation agency for all modes of transportation – aviation, highway, rail, marine and pipeline.

Significant investigations conducted by the NTSB in all modes of transportation in recent years include the collapse of the I-35 highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; the collision between two transit trains in Washington, D. C .; the pipeline explosion that destroyed much of a neighborhood in San Bruno, California ; the sinking of an amphibious vessel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the crash of a regional airliner near Buffalo, New York.

An enhanced truck and trailer combination for use in the forest and a b-double for plain highway transportation to the mill in Skoghall.

Heuristic routing is also used for vehicular traffic using the highway and transportation network of the world, but that is beyond the scope of this article.

The exhibit continued with a vision of future transportation ( centered on a monorail and high-speed " air cars " on an electrically controlled highway ).

A review of descriptions of the scope of various committees indicates that while facility planning and design continue to be the core of the transportation engineering field, such areas as operations planning, logistics, network analysis, financing, and policy analysis are also important to civil engineers, particularly to those working in highway and urban transportation.

The facilities support air, highway, railroad, pipeline, water, and even space transportation.

Increased car traffic resulted in the construction of the interstate-model highway Route 17 through Binghamton and Johnson City in the early 1970s, replacing the Binghamton railroad station as the transportation hub of the region.

BART has served as a rapid transit and commuter rail system, and provided an alternative transportation route to highway transportation, though its critics counter its success has taken four decades to come to fruition at a steep cost during the interim.

The county lacked transportation infrastructure until 1812 when the first known highway named Post Road was constructed across the southern portion of the county.

Joined by the river, the former transportation highway, the two cities have since grown together.

Major transportation routes near / through Cabot are the railroad ( currently owned by Union Pacific ), the " old highway to St. Louis " ( currently Arkansas Highway 367 ), US Highway 67 / 167, and Interstate 40.

Gulf County's highway transportation needs are met with three main corridors: U. S. Route 98 along the coast and through Port St. Joe providing a route west to Panama City, Florida and east to Apalachicola, Florida, State Road 22 westward from Wewahitchka, Florida to Panama City, Florida, and State Road 71 from Port St. Joe northward toward Alabama and Georgia.

The Indiana Department of Transportation, as part of the Major Moves transportation program, recently ( 2011 ) completed a four-lane, limited access highway by-pass that carries U. S. Highway 231 around the west side of Dale.

By the 1950s, both of these forms of transportation had dramatically declined as highway construction was subsidized by the federal government and the private car became the primary means of travel.

Bergenline Avenue and the marginal highway of New Jersey Route 495 are major public transportation corridors.

Mr. Wait convinced the New York Commissioner of Highways to construct an experimental section of highway near New Paltz, New York, using one sack of Rosendale to six sacks of synthetic cement, and it was proved a success and for decades the Rosendale-synthetic cement blend became common use in highway and bridge construction.

He later became the Highway Commissioner for the State of Indiana and was assigned to building a highway from Indianapolis, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky.

The Mediterranean Sea became the " world highway of trade " and a number of ships called at Malta for coal and various supplies on their way to the Indian Ocean and the Far East.

The question as to why this area did not remain at the forefront of technological and social development lies in the subsequent history of its geographical location – at the end of the mostly peaceful Neolithic period, this area became a highway for invaders from the east moving into Europe.

As the provincial highways and the United States highway system began to develop in the 1920s, long-distance road journeys became more common, and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sited close to the main routes led to the growth of the motel concept.

Motels peaked in popularity in the 1960s with rising car travel, only to decline in response to competition from the newer chain hotels which became commonplace at highway interchanges as traffic was bypassed onto newly constructed freeways.

Long-neglected 1930s through 1950s roadside diners, filling stations and other abandoned highway infrastructure became a target for historic preservation.

Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire.

In order to reduce crude oil consumption, the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act mandated maximum speed limits of on public highways and became the first instance where the U. S. federal government began providing funding for ridesharing and states were allowed to spend their highway funds on rideshare demonstration projects.

The highway and missions became for many a romantic symbol of an idyllic and peaceful past.

It stood near the highway which later became the Roman road in the Valley of Elah, the scene of David's memorable victory over Goliath (), and not far from Gath.

What was built of this route became Route 18 in the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering.

When the Interstate Highway system was funded, and sometimes locally as some cities, counties or states improved their own local highway networks, stretches of road containing a lot of turns, frequent stops ( traffic signals ), and-or narrow hard to widen ways and roadbeds, stretches of local roads became bypassed and locally named Old Lincoln Highway.

In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, the portion of Route 35 between Lakewood and Point Pleasant became Route 88 and Route 35 was designated to head south from Point Pleasant to Seaside Heights on what had been a part of Route 37.

Channel 10 was originally often used for highway communications east of the Mississippi River, and channel 19 west of the Mississippi ; channel 19 then became the preferred highway channel in most areas, as it did not have adjacent-channel interference problems with channel 9.

When the Pennsylvania Turnpike was built, this interstate toll road became the main highway through Bedford County.

A trail used by General Adrián Woll's Mexican Army on its way to attack San Antonio in 1842 crossed the territory of Uvalde County and became the main highway between San Antonio.

The portion of Paterson Plank Road that lost its state highway status in 1953 gained it back in 1972, when it became an extension of Route 20 as a result of the construction of the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

As a result of this realignment, the portion of the route between modern Route 3 and Paterson Plank Road became a portion of Route 20 while the section along Paterson Plank Road was removed from the state highway system.

In 1952, the route became part of the Trenton Freeway until the Route 26 designation was truncated back to North Brunswick Township in the 1953 state highway renumbering.

In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, pre-1927 Route 6 between Camden and Salem became Route 45.

The Old Spanish Trail, originating in Santa Fe became a continuation of the well-known Santa Fe Trail, that began in 1821, when the nation ’ s first major international commercial highway was estalihed stretching from Kansas City, Missouri to Santa Fe.