This article deals with transport as a service and as an investment sector. It shows the special role of transport in national economy and draws attention to some problems, which are characteristic and of particular importance to LDCs.

Together with its "Report on the State of the Nation 1972" the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany presented an extensive collection of studies. Drawn up by 50 experts, the report on the development in the two German states should, according to Willy Brandt, contribute to facilitate...