The following two papers were presented at the Oyez/IBC conference on “The Computer in Road Transport Planning” held in London in September. The conference addressed itself to various questions relating to the function of the computer in this field: why use a computer at all? How much money...

This paper was also presented at the Oyez/IBC conference entitled “The Computer in Road Transport Planning”, held in September of this year. Whilst at the conference, Terry Goldberg prefaced his presentation with the comment that it is difficult to define the depot operation as either Road...