Emerging State Departments of Transportation. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

The emergence of state departments of transportation since 1959 has been for a multitude of reasons: emphasis on modal interdependency, socio-economic implications of growth in the urban and suburban areas, and so forth. This paper discusses the role of state DOT's in addressing and providing leadership in the transportation area.