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.].