In their quest to become highly efficient and professional asset managers in maintaining their roadnetworks and delivering a programme of network improvements some road administrations haveundergone significant changes in the way they operate in order to become more efficient and provide amore...

Old ways: the local road-building regime in late-nineteenth-century New York -- New ways: the emergence of a subfederal road-building regime, 1898-1919 -- Highways: state-centered bureaucracy and the elevation of engineer-administrators, 1919-1930 -- Clearing the way: depression, war, and the...