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345 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. viii (1963)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0345 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD

This volume is designed to deal with transportation as it is today and as it may
be expected to evolve within the framework of the society it serves in the decade
or two ahead. Insofar as is practical within the space allotted, the problems of
the transportation industry in transition are dealt with so as to include, in his-
torico-economic perspective, its physical, logistical, sociopolitical, regulatory, and
legal facets.
The task of assembling this volume was approached with recognition of the con-
tributions which may be made to our national transportation policy not only by
those who have a stake in its design and implementation but also by those other
professionals-who may be called public members-interested equally in sustain-
ing and improving productivity and our economy generally in a free society.
The organization of the volume and the nature and scope of its contents have
been the responsibility of the Special Editor. Nearly every facet of the industry
has here a selected spokesman-excepting pipelines, which need no individual
advocate as a useful member of the transportation family.
In a task of the dimensions of preparing this volume, a Special Editor usually
seeks counsel from his professional friends, although reserving to himself the re-
sponsibility of decision and the freedom of action accepted with the task. My
friends know of my gratitude. To one of them, however, I owe a publicly stated
special word of appreciation for his unflagging encouragement and quiet and dis-
tinguished counsel-Colonel Francis W. Crary, USA (Ret.), who has long filled a
pivotal position among transport men of all modes and of all shades of national
transportation awareness as Executive Vice-President of the National Defense
Transportation Association, of which the Special Editor has long been a member
and which renders vital service to the transportation industry as a whole.
The authors chosen to present papers for this symposium represent a cross-sec-
tion of articulate leaders in transportation, industry, and education-men of ac-
tion and responsibility who continue to add to their own stature and to the via-
bility of the nation's economy. Each contributor accepted an assigned subject
and an area of responsibility within the transportation field. Within this frame-
work, each author speaks for himself alone and not necessarily for the industry as
a whole or for any segment thereof. Nevertheless, the papers which follow do
represent the tempered observation of men who have acquired mature discernment
and understanding not only of the American political and economic body of which
they are a part but also of the philosophy, operations, and machinations of men
and laws which guide, control, and otherwise succor twentieth-century transporta-
tion. Thus conceived, the authors are both stewards and prophets of the Ameri-
can transportation heritage and its future.
GEORGE Fox MOTT

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