Balance and innovation in urban transportation. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1971.

First the national emphasis on balance and the role in it that innovation is currently accorded are reviewed. Then the conventional and innovative systems through quantitative comparisons of their projected costs and benefits with the goals of the new federal transit program are evaluated. The case for emphasizing innovation in the national effort to balance transportation is summarized.