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• Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS): Users Manual (McLean, VA: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1989), by Brian L. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety Design and Operational Practices for Streets and Highways (technology sharing report 80-228; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1980), by Neilon J. Rowan, D. L. Woods, Vergil G. Stover, D. A. Anderson, and J. H. Dozier, ed. by Jocille Hanover Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS): Users Manual (McLean, VA: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1989), by Brian L. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Cattle Guard: Its History and Lore (originally published 1982; open access edition Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, c2021), by James F. Hoy (PDF and Epub with commentary at ku.edu)

• The Cattle Guard: Its History and Lore (originally published 1982; open access edition Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, c2021), by James F. Hoy (PDF and Epub with commentary at ku.edu)

• Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS): Users Manual (McLean, VA: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1989), by Brian L. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Outlaw Years: The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace (New York: Macaulay, c1930), by Robert M. Coates (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Arizona Highways (partial serial archives)

• Kashmir: The Land of Streams and Solitudes (London and New York: John Lane, 1909), by P. Pirie, illust. by H. R. Pirie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hizakurige Gajō: Tokaidō Meisho (illustrations and selections from the 19th century comic novel, Tokaidochu Hizakurige: A Shanks' Mare Tour of the Tokaido; in Japanese; originally published Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, ca. 1868), by Ikku Jippensha, illust. by Tamenobu Fujikawa (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Collections)

• Hizakurige Gajō: Tokaidō Meisho (illustrations and selections from the 19th century comic novel, Tokaidochu Hizakurige: A Shanks' Mare Tour of the Tokaido; in Japanese; originally published Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, ca. 1868), by Ikku Jippensha, illust. by Tamenobu Fujikawa (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Collections)

• Cannery Row (c1945), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Turned on to Jesus (1971), by Arthur Blessitt and Walter Wagner (HTML at blessitt.com)

• California Desert Trails (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images in Germany)

• California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon (1913), by J. Smeaton Chase (illustrated HTML at ventanawild.org)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Safety Design and Operational Practices for Streets and Highways (technology sharing report 80-228; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1980), by Neilon J. Rowan, D. L. Woods, Vergil G. Stover, D. A. Anderson, and J. H. Dozier, ed. by Jocille Hanover Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of Highway Engineering (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1928), by Carroll Carson Wiley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roads and Pavements: Papers Presented Before the Short Course in Highway Engineering Held at the University of Texas, March 31-April 12, 1919, under the auspices of the Department of Engineering (University of Texas bulletin #1922; 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (2005), by National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text

• Design of Steel Bridges: Theory and Practice for the Use of Civil Engineers and Students (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1915), by F. C. Kunz (page images at HathiTrust)

• NPS Trails Management Handbook (Denver: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1988), by Lennon Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1987), by Bruce Edsall Seely (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1987), by Bruce Edsall Seely (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway (London: Chapman and Hall, 1901), by Charles G. Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Stane Street: A Monograph, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (2005), by National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density (HTML and page images at NAP)

• The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on Which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead Road (1833), by Henry Parnell (page images at Google)
• The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, with an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text)
• Roman Roads in Britain (reprint of the third edition; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Thomas Codrington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Safety Design and Operational Practices for Streets and Highways (technology sharing report 80-228; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1980), by Neilon J. Rowan, D. L. Woods, Vergil G. Stover, D. A. Anderson, and J. H. Dozier, ed. by Jocille Hanover Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Milestones and the Old Post Road (reprinted from the Historical Guide to the City of New York, revised, 1915; New York: City History Club of New York, 1915), by George W. Nash and Hopper Striker Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Highways (partial serial archives)
• Good Roads (partial serial archives)

• Thomas Annan of Glasgow, Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), by Lionel Gossman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Some Elements of Indiana's Population: or, Roads West and Their Early Travelers (Indianapolis: E. J. Hecker, 1908), by William E. Henry (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)

• Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (2005), by National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Soil-Cement Construction Handbook (Chicago: Portland Cement Association, c1956), by Portland Cement Association (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Santa Fe Trail, by Kansas State Historical Society (HTML at kancoll.org)

• Pioneering in the Northwest: Niobrara-Virginia City Wagon Road, by Albert M. Holman; Pioneers, Short Sketches of Charles Floyd, War Eagle, Theophile Bruguier, and Others, by Constant R. Marks (Sioux City, IA: Deitch and Lamar Co., 1924), by Albert M. Holman and C. R. Marks (page images at HathiTrust)

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