Implications for air carriers of the long-term prospects for cargo transportation in the surface modes.

For some years to come, the economic and service performance of cargo carriers operating in modes of transportation other than air will improve markedly. In general, such improvements will flow from intensive exploitation and evolutionary development of technology rather than through development of wholly new technologies. The most significant technological advances will relate to management and control technology. In addition, computer technology will be applied increasingly to enhance management's knowledge of the economic and engineering nature of their operations. In turn, this will lead to significant pricing and service innovations.