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Accessibility Resource Library

Each office in the Federal Highway Administration is responsible for maintaining accessibility information as it relates to its own program. This page supports the effort to organize and make available all information that relates to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or other accessibility resources that may affect research, planning, design, construction, or operations of any Federal Highway Administration project.

If there is a resource that should be included on this page, please contact Web.Master@dot.gov.

FHWA By Day

A Look at the History of the Federal Highway Administration

Published by the Federal Highway Administration, June 1996.
This is an Electronic Version of Publication No. FHWA-PD-96-029 HPD-1/5-96 (5M) P

Photo Credits: Unless otherwise noted, the photographs used in FHWA By Day came from U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration sources.

Ultra-High Performance Concrete Publications Videos

Innovation Spotlight: Ultra-High Performance Concrete

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) can be used to create the simple, strong, long-lasting connections needed for successful construction using prefabricated bridge elements. The durability of prefabricated spans, and how quickly they can be constructed relies on the connections between the elements.

Text of Speeches

The President's News Conference, February 10, 1954

As you know, under the law there would normally come about soon a half-cent reduction in the Federal tax on gasoline. You also know in the statement already made that the administration hopes to keep that half-cent tax in order to push...

Eisenhower Interstate Highway System - Interstate Density Map

The Changing Face of America

The map series below shows the progression of the Interstate System, decade by decade. As the progression illustrates, the Interstate System was essentially complete by the 1980s. The map series shows that while population remains dense in the Northeast,...