Transportation in Contemporary Civilization

Abstract

Change is everywhere manifest. The time span of change relative to human lives is the critical factor. Many within transportation are anxious to turn transportation toward controlled acceleration. Some seek new ways of marketing transportation, rather than selling a single mode or method of moving men and cargoes from here to there. A new activity complex calls for new transport design. One may not deal with transportation as an activity isolated from its changing environment. When the significance of transportation's role is recognized, it can surely be referred to as the Fifth Estate. Transportation is today well launched into an era of progressive renaissance. The twin investment of capital and man-hours must be amortized by wise planning. By bold innovation, new patterns and processes of transportation can be made to fit the new requirements. Transportation's role is service. Perspective can be gained by ideas subject to experiment. Our progress must be judged by how well contemporary society is motivated by its leaders to achieve goals which make all men participants in the multiplicity of advances. The decades ahead require a transportation renaissance. Resurgence has already begun. A Fifth Estate is emerging.