Institute for Transportation

About the research

In 1999, the Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) at Iowa State University’s (Iowa State’s) Institute for Transportation (InTrans) developed the book Iowa Highway Research Board: 1949–1999. The book summarized the history of highway research in Iowa, the germination of the Iowa Highway Research Board (IHRB), and highlights of the board’s research program in its first 50 years.

Given the technological, computational, and theoretical advances in transportation engineering over the past 25 years, along with a desire to highlight the board’s historical and current impacts, the IHRB was interested in continuing the narrative begun in Iowa Highway Research Board: 1949–1999 to cover the board’s history since 1999.

The objective of this project was to create a book that encompasses the IHRB’s history and funded projects from 2000 to 2024.