NOTE: Articles from Public Roads magazine are not presently available on the FHWA website. You can find them on ROSA P; search the title of the article. We regret the inconvenience.

• Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 Creation of a Landmark (.pdf, 1 mb)

• Busting the Trust: Unraveling the Highway Trust Fund 1968-1973 (.pdf, 7 mb)
  • Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 - a Short History
  • Busting the Trust Supplement

• "Clearly Vicious as a Matter of Policy": The Fight Against Federal-Aid

• PALACE COUP: President Ronald Reagan and the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982
  • Sidebar: 30 Years Ago: President Ronald Reagan Visits DOT Headquarters: The Fight for a Gas Tax Increase

• Creating a Landmark: The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 November/December 2001
  • Idea Champions
  • Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the Signing of ISTEA
  • A Bush at Both Ends: Before and After the Interstate Era

• President Ronald Reagan and the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987

• Elizabeth Parker on Major Proposals to Restructure the Highway Program

• Backbone: Creation Of The National Highway System
  • National Highway System: Imagining The Future

• Celebrating A Double Anniversary Public Roads May/June 2016