System theory and transportation

Large scale systems with some social relevance present major challenges to the modern system engineer. The coordination of future transportation systems both on a national and an urban scale is among the more important of these. A number of citizens feel that reorganizing urban life in the United States is a fitting and pressing national goal for the next several decades and reorganizing the urban transportation segment is an essential feature of urban planning. A systems study of the city will be discussed and a number of activities basic to a city system model will be proposed. Transportation will be one of these elements.