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History
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Standards
American Association of State Highway and Transportation OfficialsToll boothsRamp metersRush hourSpeed limits
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Numbering system
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Financing
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- Formed
- June 29, 1956; 70 years ago (1956-06-29)
- Interstates
- Interstate X (I-X)
- Length
- 48,890 mi[a] (78,680 km)
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Overview
- Controlled-access highways Controlled-access highway
- National Highway System National Highway System (United States)
- United States
- Contiguous United States
- Hawaii
- Alaska
- Puerto Rico
- United States Congress
- Federal Aid Road Act of 1916
- Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921
- United States Numbered Highway System
- U.S. states
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- His administration Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956
- Urban renewal
- Freeway revolts Highway revolts in the United States
- Specific standards Interstate Highway standards
- Median strips Median strip
- Shoulders Shoulder (road)
- At-grade intersections Intersection (road)
- Traffic lights Traffic light
- Traffic sign Road signs in the United States
- Highway Trust Fund
- Fuel tax Fuel taxes in the United States
- Treasury's US Treasury
- Toll roads Toll road
- Grandfathered into Grandfathered in
- I-95 Interstate 95
- I-70 Interstate 70
History
- Cadillac Square
- Matching funds
- World War I
- Engineering News-Record
- The Ellipse
- White House
- Motor Transport Corps convoy 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy
- Lincoln Highway
- Presidio of San Francisco
- Golden Gate
- Brevet Brevet (military)
- Bureau of Public Roads Federal Highway Administration
- Army United States Army
- John J. Pershing
- American Expeditionary Force
- Pershing Map
- New York parkway system Parkways in New York State
- United States Numbered Highways
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Thomas MacDonald Thomas Harris MacDonald
- Herbert S. Fairbank
- Reichsautobahn
- Autobahn German autobahns
- Supreme Commander Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
- Allied Forces Allies of World War II
- World War II European Theatre of World War II
- Lucius D. Clay
- Divided highways Dual carriageway
- Bonds Bond (finance)
- Gasoline
Standards
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- Toll booths Toll house
- Ramp meters Ramp meter
- Rush hour
- Speed limits Speed limit
- Northeastern Northeastern United States
- Mississippi River
- Strategic Highway Network
- US Department of Defense
- Contraflow lane reversal
- Hurricane Georges
- Savannah, Georgia
- Charleston, South Carolina
- I-16 Interstate 16 in Georgia
- I-26 Interstate 26 in South Carolina
- Hurricane Floyd
- Hurricane Charley
- Tampa, Florida
- Gulf Coast Gulf Coast of the United States
- Hurricane Ivan
- Hurricane Katrina
- Urban legend
- Nuclear warfare
Numbering system
- I-294 Interstate 294
- I-94 Interstate 94
- I-787 Interstate 787
- I-87 Interstate 87 (New York)
- Divisible Division (mathematics)
- West Coast West Coast of the United States
- Miami, Florida
- East Coast East Coast of the United States
- I-74 Interstate 74
- I‐84 Interstate 84 (west)
- I-35W Interstate 35W (Texas)
- I-35E Interstate 35E (Texas)
- Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
- I-35W Interstate 35W (Minnesota)
- I-35E Interstate 35E (Minnesota)
- Minneapolis
- Saint Paul Saint Paul, Minnesota
- I-69W Interstate 69W
- I-69E Interstate 69E
- I-69C Interstate 69C
- I‐75 Interstate 75 in Georgia
- I‐85 Interstate 85 in Georgia
- Atlanta
- Downtown Connector
- Wrong-way concurrency
- Wytheville Wytheville, Virginia
- Fort Chiswell Fort Chiswell, Virginia
- I‐81 Interstate 81 in Virginia
- I‐77 Interstate 77 in Virginia
- Urban areas Urban area
Financing
- Woodrow Wilson Bridge
- Fuel taxes Fuel tax
- Toll highways Toll highway
- Mass transit systems Mass transit system
- New York State Thruway
- Kansas Turnpike
- Connecticut Turnpike
- Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike
- Kentucky Turnpike Interstate 65 in Kentucky
- HOV High-occupancy vehicle lane
- High-occupancy toll lane
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- SAFETEA‐LU
- Grandfathered Grandfather clause
- Mianus River Bridge
- Benjamin Franklin Bridge
- Philadelphia
- I-676 Interstate 676
- I-376 Interstate 376
- Pennsylvania Route 60
- Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
- SAFETEA-LU
- Public–private partnerships Public–private partnership
- Virginia HOT lanes
- Capital Beltway
- Interstate 77 in North Carolina
- Charlotte metropolitan area
Signage
- Sign Highway shield
- Registered trademark
- American flag Flag of the United States
- Reassurance markers Reassurance marker
- Texas Highway Department
- Caltrans California Department of Transportation
- Arizona
- A push for the United States to change Metrication in the United States
- Metric system
- Mexican Federal Highway
- Nogales Nogales, Arizona
- Rest areas Rest area
- Gantries Gantry (road sign)
Statistics
- I-405 Interstate 405 (California)
- Eisenhower Tunnel
- Continental Divide Continental Divide of the Americas
- Rocky Mountains
- I-8 Interstate 8
- New River New River (Mexico–United States)
- Seeley, California
- Fort McHenry Tunnel
- Baltimore Inner Harbor Inner Harbor
- Seattle, Washington Seattle
- Canadian border Canada–United States border
- Houlton, Maine
- Miami, Florida Miami
- Laredo, Texas
- I-878 New York State Route 878
- Queens
- New York New York City
- New York New York (state)
- I-10 in Texas Interstate 10 in Texas
- New Mexico
- El Paso El Paso, Texas
- Orange, Texas
- DC Interstate 95 in the District of Columbia
- Potomac River
- District of Columbia Washington, DC
- Virginia
- Gary, Indiana
- Elyria, Ohio
- Florida Interstate 95 in Florida
- Georgia Interstate 95 in Georgia
Impact and reception
- Suburbanization
- Racial segregation
- White flight
- Sun Belt
- Intermodal shipping container Intermodal container
- Walmart
- FedEx
- Public transportation in the United States
- Eminent domain Eminent domain in the United States
- Nashville Nashville, Tennessee
- Chicago
- Detroit
- Air pollution Air pollution in the United States
- ABC News ABC News (United States)
- Environmental Protection Agency Environmental protection agency (United States)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Benzene
- Formaldehyde
- Hydrocarbons Hydrocarbon
- Vehicle fuel
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Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Interstate Highway System
Nodes359
Edges358
Triples137
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005571
Components1
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Interstate Highway System
Top relations
related to External links · 21
Interstate Highway System → Defense Highways, Dwight, Eisenhower National System, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Fairbank Highway Research Center, Federal Highway Administration, FHWA, FHWAInterstate Highway System, FHWAState-by-state, Finder List, Geographic, Interstate, Keep, Museum, National Highway System, NOW, OpenStreetMapDwight, PBS, Route Log, Trucking
related to Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 · 19
Interstate Highway System → Allied Forces, America, Army, Clay, Eisenhower, Europe, General Lucius, Germany's Autobahn, He, In, Lincoln Highway, Motor Transport Corps, President Dwight, Reichsautobahn, Summing, Supreme Commander, The, The Interstate Highway System, World War II
related to Primary (one- and two-digit) Interstates · 18
Interstate Highway System → AASHTO, American Association, August, I-294, I-787, I-87, I-94, In, Interstates, Primary Interstates, Shorter, State Highway, The, Thus, Transportation Officials, United States, While, Within
related to Tolls · 17
Interstate Highway System → About, Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Congress, Connecticut Turnpike, I-676, I-95, Interstate, Interstate Highway, Interstates, Massachusetts Turnpike, Mianus River Bridge, Philadelphia, Since, Some, These, Toll, While
related to Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico · 14
Interstate Highway System → Alaska, H-1, H-2, H-201, H-3, Hawaii, Honolulu, Oahu, Puerto Rico, The Interstate Highway System, The Interstates, Their, There, These Interstates
related to Construction · 13
Interstate Highway System → August, Charles County, I-70, Interstate, Interstate Highway, Missouri, On August, Some, St, The, Three, US, US Route
related to Urban decline and displacement of racial minorities · 11
Interstate Highway System → Between, Highways, Interstate, Interstate System, Interstates, Other, Previous, The Interstate Highway System, The Interstate System, United States, US
has effect · 7
Interstate Highway System → According, FHWA, Forty, Interstate Highway, The, The Interstate Highway System, These
Formed · 1
Interstate Highway System → June 29, 1956; 70 years ago (1956-06-29)
Interstates · 1
Interstate Highway System → Interstate X (I-X)
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Important terminology
interstate highway system highways states interstates federal new routes construction state roads freeway route united km toll numbers eisenhower also
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Highway System | Formed | June 29, 1956; 70 years ago (1956-06-29) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Interstate Highway System | Interstates | Interstate X (I-X) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Interstate Highway System | Length | 48,890 mi[a] (78,680 km) | 1.00 | infobox |
| the New York parkway system | instance of | a boom in road construction included projects | 0.80 | text |
| constructed as part of a new national highway system | instance of | a boom in road construction included projects | 0.80 | text |
| Atlanta | instance of | as has been done with adding toll HOV/HOT lanes in cities | 0.80 | text |
| Dallas | instance of | as has been done with adding toll HOV/HOT lanes in cities | 0.80 | text |
| and Los Angeles | instance of | as has been done with adding toll HOV/HOT lanes in cities | 0.80 | text |
| gas | instance of | motorist services | 0.80 | text |
| lodging | instance of | motorist services | 0.80 | text |
| recreational sites | instance of | motorist services | 0.80 | text |
| and freeway namesAttaching the sign to an overpassMounting on full gantries that bridge the entire width of the highway | instance of | motorist services | 0.80 | text |
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