HIGHWAY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY

THE JANUARY 1969 EDITION OF "HIGHWAY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS," AN ANNUAL COMPILATION OF RESEARCH PROJECT SUMMARIES PRODUCED FROM COMPUTER TAPE BY THE HIGHWAY RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICE OF THE HIGHWAY RESEARCH BOARD, WAS PROCESSED MANUALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING CERTAIN STATISTICAL TABLES OF THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY RESEARCH WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD. THE ONLY ORDERING CRITERION USED IS NUMBER OF PROJECTS, WHICH IS EXPRESSED IN THREE WAYS OTHER THAN THE RAW NUMBER: PROJECTS PER MILLION OF POPULATION, PER THOUSAND SQUARE MILES, AND PER THOUSAND OF ROAD MILES. BREAKDOWNS ARE BY STATES AND COUNTRIES, KINDS OF INSTITUTIONS CONDUCTING RESEARCH, AND DIVISON OF RESEARCH BY HRB SUBJECT CATEGORIES. A FOREWORD BY W. N. CAREY, JR., CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IN REPLY TO THE AUTHORS' SUGGESTION THAT THEIR ANALYSES OUGHT TO BE MADE BY COMPUTER RATHER THAN MANUALLY: "TABLES SUCH AS THOSE PREPARED BY MESSRS. FERVAL AND BELLIS CAN NOW BE MADE BY THE COMPUTER. MORE ADVANCED VERSIONS OF THE COMPUTER PROGRAMS WILL MAKE MANY OTHER ANALYSES POSSIBLE. EXAMPLES ARE CROSS-TABULATION OF THE FILE ACCORDING TO RESEARCH AGENCIES AND SPECIFIC KEY-WORDS, OR CROSS-TABULATION BETWEEN TWO CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES THAT ARE BASED ON DIFFERENT SETS OF INDEX TERMS."