Summing up

IT IS TEN years since the Institution took its first tentative steps towards recognizing transport within engineering. In 1965 the 'breakthrough' was in talking about transport problems rather than traffic or highway problems. The phrase at that time was 'co-ordination'; the emphasis was on coordinating new physical infrastructure—engineering solutions. David Bayliss referred to this problem as being broad, crude and technical.

By 1968 the emphasis was on techniques of analysis and the ways and means of understanding travel problems. The economists were making their position felt, and certainly in 1968 the idea that somebody in 1975 would say that we rely too much on economics was unthinkable. But that was, in fact, said during this conference.