Goods transport became an important aspect in transport mostly in the modern age, although the human race always wanted to receive goods which they couldn't have or luxuries from far away countries (The near east, China, India). One of the best example in the old age was the „silk road“, the road on which Marco Polo traveled to China. Republic of Croatia also wants to have more connected roads and order as a modern European country which recently came into European Union. Although the country has a good road network, it doesn't invest into port of Rijeka enough and the railway is dated. Those flaws especially come to light when Republic of Croatia is compared to it's neigbouring countries – Republic of Slovenia and Republic of Hungary. Although these countries have their own problems, for example, Republic of Slovenia has a rough terrain and a relatively short sea coast and Republic of Hungary doesn't have sea territory at all, those two countries invest in strengthening their transport and they are trying to use the natural possibilities of their terrain. Of course, those two countries are in the European Union since 2004., so they got the possibility of using the European funds and investing faster. Still, Republic of Croatia has to give more attention to transport investments, because better transport is connected with a higher GDP, so it would be investing in future.