Chapter objectives
- To provide a common forum to discuss and endorse programs that promote
transportation preparedness for economic and security needs. To provide
active assistance, in a non-partisan capacity, to government agencies
involved in peacetime and defense preparedness transportation planning.
- To serve as a link between government and industry to obtain the needed
cooperation and support necessary for strong and efficient transportation
systems.
- To assist in the transportation education of young executives who plan
to pursue a career in transportation through our NDTA Foundation and
mentoring.
- To support continued reliance on the private enterprise systems of
ownership and operation of transportation.
- To support, conduct and assist programs of transportation education and
scientific research and development among private, industrial, educational
and government agencies, which are designed to increase the effectiveness,
economy and responsiveness of the transportation industry and allied
services to defense needs.
- To foster a spirit of patriotic and cooperative goodwill, cooperative
endeavor and mutual understanding among its members, industrial entities,
components of the transportation industry, the Armed Forces and Government
agencies concerned with transportation.
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