§ 58. Mr. Straussasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation how many people he proposes to send from his Department to take a course in traffic management at Yale or elsewhere what other organisations will be participating in this scheme; and how long the courses take.
§ Mr. WatkinsonI have approved the proposed visit of two officers of my Department to Yale University this autumn to enable them to take the Post-Graduate Course in Traffic Engineering which is organised by the university. Traffic engineering is bound to play an increasingly important part in our general traffic planning if the best possible use is to be made of our existing road system and of additions to it.
I therefore regard it as essential that my Ministry should have at its disposal up-to-date knowledge of the work being done and of the techniques being 138W developed and employed in the United States of America, where traffic engineering has been studied and employed more intensively than in this country.
I am glad to say that the London County Council, the Birmingham City Council and Messrs. Wilson, Kirkpatrick & Partners have each applied to enter an engineer from their staffs for the course, which lasts for eight months.