CLOSING ADDRESS: 203-204

The theme of the conference has been the planning and engineering of transportation. The agenda of the conference covers the broad interests of government, both central and local, and of the nationalized undertakings. Looking through the programme I could not find a single session in which there was no government interest. I am particularly glad, therefore, that I have been asked to close the conference. I have listened with enormous interest to the masterly summing-up by Mr Goldstein. I have rarely heard a performance which combined analysis and synthesis in such happy proportions. It is a superb achievement.

One of the most encouraging things, I think, which has emerged from the conference is the increasing extent to which problems of transportation are being tackled by the application of scientific methods and of advanced technologies.