Transport engineering— a future paved with gold?

Transport engineering offers a potentially rich and fulfilling career, not just financially but in terms of the holistic service that transport engineers can offer society long into the future. This paper, which is based on the author's recent Paviors’ Lecture in London, explains that it is not just about getting things done, it is about getting the right things done, which means taking the broadest possible view of what transport engineering is about. In addition to building the right vehicles and infrastructure it also means developing good policies and carrying out good research.