Comprehensiveness in transportation education. Paper presented at the Conference on Multidisciplinary Education in Transportation, University of Pennsylvania, September 7 and 8, 1973.

The desirability of comprehensive understanding should be impressed on the transportation student at the outset of the educational process in order to prevent narrow professionalization. The curriculum should include technology and demographic behaviour as seen through mathematical models, public policy formation, use of data bases and computer modelling, and optimisation at both a micro and a macro level.