Assessment of the current state of the art of accommodating utilities in public street rights-of-way in the United States and Canada. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

Practices and problems involved in accommodating utilities in rights-of-way of public streets are examined. Best current practices are indentified; areas where further research and improvement are needed, are indicated; and the way toward alleviating some of the most widespread and serious problems is pointed out.