At 3:23 AM -0700 3/11/99, JosephSzyliowicz wrote:
>We are carrying out research on the educational requirements that are
>created by the emergence of a a global intermodal transportation
>system. There are two parts to our project. First an analysis of the
>ways in which educational institutions have developed or amended courses
>and programs to prepare students for this new environment. Second, an
>analysis of the kinds of skills that governmental agencies and
>especially industry feel that students need. We have, to date, focused
>on the situation in the U.S.and Canada but are eager to obtain
>information about these topics in the rest of the world.
>
>Joseph Szyliowicz
>Intermodal Transportation Institute
>University of Denver
This is a very valuable question. The changes in policy and practice
have been massive over the last to decades, and the convergence
towards global questions hasnow begun to crystalise quite quickly.
All transport teaching units really need to have a good grasp of
these chanmges, and the rising significance of global factors in
transprot and the organsiations and policies that they are affecting.
I hope there will be a number of resosnes to this post.
m R Wigan
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