ABSTRACT
Special problems arise in connection with the criteria for investments in tracks. In principle the network of tracks should be adapted to requirements governed by the location of industries. Investments in construction of roads have to serve two different purposes, namely, industrial production by providing space for the collective movement of goods and passengers and for the vehicles used in transport for own account. The transport undertakings concerned should be required to prove that the investments are sufficiently covered by their own or outside funds, always taking into consideration the principle of economic self-sufficiency. Investments in tracks are a useful instrument of an anti-cyclical economic policy and consequently ought to be adapted in principle to the long-term requirements of such a policy. A coordination of the investments of the different branches of the transport industry is vital also in connection with the necessary further development of the container traffic and combined transport.
