A Policy Architecture for the 21 st Century. The world as a whole also needs a new, more integrated approach to transportation policy. This is nowhere more evident than in our transportation systems, which every day move millions of people, products and resources within and across borders and around the globe. However, with this growth comes the need for international cooperation to ensure that our transportation systems are safe and efficient and that all nations have access to advances in transportation technology and practices. Before that happens, we should be aware that such a system will almost certainly succeed on a regional basis before it takes hold on a global basis.
Transportation is about more than concrete, asphalt and steel.
Transportation is the tie that binds communities as well as nations, linking us to home, daycare, school, the workplace, medical care, retail stores and entertainment. As we look to the future I am confident that we are truly on the ground floor of a new age of prosperity for everyone. And the role of transportation in this new age is to forge the links that make it happen. We do so, despite the difficulties and the tensions that confront us, because there is, in all of us, the capacity to touch one another s hearts across oceans and continents.