International Forum on Appropriate Industrial Technology Held at New Delhi/Anand,India on November 20-30, 1978. Appropriate Transport Facilities for the Rural Sector in Developing Countries.

摘要

The report is concerned with the provision of appropriate transport facilities in the rural areas of developing countries. It is argued that the technologies applied in the past have been inappropriate to,and ineffective in meeting the transport needs of their poorest people. Further,there are alternative and more appropriate transport technologies which can better meet many of these needs. An essential element of any strategy for improving the transport capabilities of rural populations must be to provide a graduated choice of vehicles whose performance matches need and whose cost is in sensible relation to income. A range of basic vehicles is described--from aids to goods movement by man through to cheap motorized forms of transport--whose technology is shown to be more appropriate to the needs of many rural developing communities. Throughout the report various actions to promote more appropriate rural transport are identified. These are summarized into three categories:information,research and development;and production and marketing.