Clearing The Decks

Definition of terms 1.1 THE words "co-ordination" and "integration" of transport have dominated the transport vocabulary for nearly 50 years. Yet despite their constant use,......

The Objective

1.4 The argument is not of course about words. It is about concepts; and it is impossible to prove conclusively that one is wrong and the other right. 1.5 But however much......

Nature Of Co-ordinating Task •

1.9 It is superficial, I suggest, to regard road and rail as two clear-cut homogeneous entities and to conceive the task as one of bringing the two entities together. This is......

Freight Pattern Never Static

1.12 It is fallacious to regard the traffic pattern as static. There is a "to-and-fro" all the time between road and rail; and between one haulier and another. Customers' needs......

Dangers Of Superficiality

1.13 In no sphere is superficiality more dangerous than in transport. The swift sweep of the eye that sees the simple solution in a glance—"get all this heavy freight traffic......

Some Common Fallacies

2.1 Delving below the level of superficiality soon results in the explosion of popular fallacies. One I have mentioned—get all the freight traffic off the road and all will be......

Thousand-millions Of Ton-miles 1928 1968 5 43 \ Road Rail...

I am not advancing these facts and figures to decry rail or to minimize the important role which rail has to play. But it is foolish to close one's eyes to the true position and......