Since 1995 the German government is supporting the Tangail Infrastructure Development Programme, which has the goal to improve the access to and from growth centres for marketing of agricultural and other commercial goods. The mission was conducted in order to evaluate the possibility of such a replication in the four other districts of Bangladesh. The study examined the existing road and market infrastructures and evaluated the demands. It analysed the target group, estimated volume and costs, calculated the economic potential and feasibility and assessed the institutional setting.