An integral part of the two week transport short course was a group
project study by course members, applying material presented on the
course to a practical problem in transport systems analysis. Airport
location in Southern England was chosen as the example. The students
were asked to put themselves in the position of a working party who
had been given two weeks to prepare an initial paper for a Commission
appointed to enquire into the location of a third London Airport. The
purpose of this initial paper was to survey the problems which would
need to be tackled, to make definite proposals for detailed studies
which would need to be made, and to provide information on the scope
and relative importance of such studies … [cont.]
