Highways and Highway Transportation by George R. Chatburn

AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORTATION 181 Defined, Radical Changes to be Expected. Business Passenger Traffic: Jitney and Taxicab, Motor Bus -- Qualifications, Fares, Competition with Street Cars, Cross-country Service, Carriers of School Children, Transfer between Depots. Pleasure Passenger Traffic: An Influence in the Purchase of Automobiles, Pleasurable Effect of Automobile Riding, Recreational and Pathological Benefits of Motoring, Cost of Motoring. Freight Traffic: Cost and Time Factors, Motor Trucks and Congested Districts, Time Devoted to Loading and Unloading, Depots, Warehouses, Devices, Removable Bodies, Sectional Containers, Store to Door Delivery, Mass Loading. Devices Connected with the Truck. Devices Separate, Special Types of Bodies. Traffic between Towns: Economic Distance, Licenses and Insurance, State Regulation without Competition, Development of State Regulation. Motor Bus Traffic: Buses, Rates, Future of Motor Bus and Other Types of Transportation. To and from the Farm: Importance of Farm Trucking, Arguments in Favor of, Cost of Trucking, Diversified Farming, Intensive Farming, Live Stock. Trucking, Benefits to the Farmer, Economy of Farm Trucking, Parcel Post Service and the Farm, Rural Express, Milk Trucks, Convenience to the Farmer, Purchasing a Truck. Terminal Facilities: Advantages. Social Aspect of Motor Transportation: Effect on Merchandising, Housing, Unification of Society, Standard of Living, Size of Farms, Salesmen, Hotels, City and Country Stores. Consolidated Rural Schools: The Public School and Patriotism, Peace, Changing Concepts of Public Schools. Rural Mail Delivery. Automobile and Health: As a Form of Exercise, Effect on Styles; Medical Science; Sanitary Effects -- Mosquitoes, Flies. The Automobile and Crime: Bootlegging, Robbery, Vandalism. Types of Automobile Transportation.