ABSTRACT
Many concise expressions have been used to define the objective of co-ordination of road and rail transport. A typical case is that of the Royal Commission on Transport suggesting that co-ordination means a ‘state of affairs whereby every passenger who travelled and every ounce of goods was consigned by the economical route and form of transport. The report of the Committee of Independent Experts of the International Chamber of Commerce, issued in 1933, states that the principal aims should be ‘to co-ordinate all means of transport in such a way as to secure for each of them the traffic for which it is best suited, and to avoid overlapping, the financial consequences of which the community would ultimately have to bear’. The furtherance of the public interest has led to State control of transport in the past, involving restraints not only on transport undertakings but on the users and the public.
