MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE OF STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS: HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS 1909-1974

The fourteen states comprising the Mississippi Valley Conference collectively form the highway transportation capital of the world. State highway officials in Mississippi Valley Conference states were instrumental in founding the American Road Builders Association, the American Association of State Highway Officials, and the Highway Research Board. As the oldest association of highway officials in the United States, the Mississippi Valley Conference also has served as a model for creation of the other regional conferences of state highway officials. Mississippi Valley Conference states played a highly significant part in founding the first Federal-Aid Act which, together with succeeding major amendments, is largely responsible for America's integrated system of arterial and secondary highways and its worldwide preeminence in the highway field. This history attempts to review the main steps which have made this organization outstanding. The Conference, however, owes its success not chiefly to its enterprises as an organized interest group, but rather to the progressive accomplishments of the individual member states and their willingness to share their problems, ideas and triumphs with their neighbors. This document then, is dedicated to the individuals within the highway units of the member states who, by their innovative genius and their limitless devotion to the cause of better highways, have engendered a commanding respect for the Mississippi Valley Conference.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This publication was edited, assembled and printed by the Iowa Department of Transportation in the early 1980s. Only 25 copies were printed. It may be borrowed from the Iowa Department of Transportation Library.
• Corporate Authors:

  Iowa Department of Transportation

  800 Lincoln Way
  Ames, IA  United States  50010
• Publication Date: 1980

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: History
• Identifier Terms: Mississippi Valley Conference of State Highway Departments
• Geographic Terms: Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; Nebraska; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Wisconsin
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; History; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00625253
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 1993 12:00AM