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United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
A World War I–era federal committee, this group wrote practical reports and addresses about keeping people, goods, and farm products moving when transportation was under strain. Its publications offer a direct look at how the United States tried to organize highways and motor transport for national service.
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Return-Loads Bureaus to Save Waste in Transportation
by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.
by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
About the author
Organized under the Council of National Defense during World War I, the Highways Transport Committee was a U.S. government body focused on the growing importance of road transport. Records from the National Archives place the Council of National Defense in the 1917–1918 wartime period, and surviving publications show this committee producing official material on highway organization, motor trucking, and transportation policy.
Works attributed to the committee include "Organization, administration and operation of the state highways transport committees of the state councils of defense" and other wartime publications about rural motor express service and freight movement. Rather than a single personal author, this was a committee author: a collaborative government voice created to help coordinate transportation resources at a time when efficient movement of supplies and food was treated as a national priority.
For modern readers, the committee's writings are valuable as historical documents. They capture an early moment in the federal government's thinking about highways, logistics, and the role of motor vehicles in public policy long before the modern interstate era.