United States. Bureau of Public Roads (Corporate Name)

The following subdivisions have not been used as headings: Traffic Systems Division; Engineering Systems Division; Economics and Requirements Division; Office of Planning; Urban Planning Division; Personnel and Training Division; Office of Administration. Personnel and Training Division; Division of Hydraulic Research; Division of Traffic Operations Research; Office of Research; Highway Needs and Economy Division; Division of Highway Planning; Division of Highway Needs and Economy; Turkey Division; Division of Research; Division of Physical Research; Philippine Division; Financial and Administrative Research Branch; Highway Transport Research Branch; Division of Agricultural Engineering; Division of Financial and Administrative Research. The following headings for earlier names are also valid AACR 2 headings: Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering; Office of Road Inquiry

This corporate body resumed its earlier name in 1949; the Bureau of Public Roads began in 1918. It used the name Public Roads Administration beginning in 1939 until 1949.

Its Use of water from Kings River, California, 1918 ... 1920.

Colorado traffic volume study, 1964: t.p. (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads)

Korfhage, G.R. Bituminous stabilization, 1969: t.p. (U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Bureau of Public Roads)

Highway statistics (Washington, D.C. : Annual). Highway statistics, 1945: t.p. (Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency, United States); 1968: t.p. (Federal Highway Administration, Bureau of Public Roads)

Public roads, spring 1996, accessed online, Apr. 1, 1999: chronology, 1961-1995, at last screen, after 1995 (Office of Road Inquiry, to Federal Highway Administration: Office of Road Inquiry (1893-1898); Office of Public Road Inquiries (1899-1905); Office of Public Roads (1905-1915); Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering (1915-1918); Bureau of Public Roads (1918-1939; and 1949-1967); Public Roads Administration (1939-1949); Federal Highway Administration (Apr. 1, 1967-present))

Highway existence, Feb. 4, 2011 Turning point : launching the interstate highway program (in 1949 the Public Roads Administration was transferred to Dept. of Commerce and renamed Bureau of Public Roads) The interstate era gets underway (in 1967 the Bureau of Public Roads became part of the new U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration; the Bureau was abolished in 1970) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/rw93.cfm