Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them. - Anthony Stafford Beer

According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.