Entrepreneur Carl Graham Fisher envisioned a transcontinental highway, allowing vehicular travel from Jersey City to San Francisco. The plans for this road, named the Lincoln Highway, went through Omaha and across the entire state of Nebraska. On December 12, 1914, the first charter meeting of the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) met in Washington, D.C. to form an association of state highway officials and draft a federal aid road bill. The bill promoted cooperation between the states and federal government, as equals, in the development and improvement of the nation's highways. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 which provided $75 million (equivalent to $ in ) in federal money in 50–50 matching funds to the states for improving up to six percent of their statewide roads over a five-year period.