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The rather dour outlook for transport graduates in the US noted by Gus L. Keolanui and Donald F. Wood is all too true. For a decade or so the number of transportation courses offered in US universities has declined; the numbers of students majoring in transportation has been disappointing; and the attention given to transportation topics has diminished. Some cynic would say that the quality of transport education was not very good in the first place and that many transportation courses were better off dead than alive. (While that may be true, the probability is that the quality of transportation courses on the whole was not much worse‐or much better‐than the quality of other courses in the universities in question.)

Despite the fact that transportation accounts for about 20% of the gross national product of the United States, transportation course offerings‐at both the undergraduate and graduate level‐are rather insignificant at most US colleges and universities. There is apparently no great demand by the transportation industry for students whose major field is transportation. Nor are transportation teachers in demand, and “the doctoral student in transportation and logistics must usually prepare himself to teach in a second field such as marketing or finance because most schools do not need a full‐time transportation and logistics person. This note does not solve the problem; it does little more than reaffirm that it exists. Hopefully, others concerned with college and university level transportation curricula will take a cue from this note and contribute ideas as to what needs to be done to restore transportation education to a more proportionate role.

An examination of the employment situation for transport and logistics graduates in the United States.

Provides a comparison of the transportation‐logistics education situation in Canada with the more gloomy one in the USA.