A generalized class of ’’transport type’’ equations is studied, including most of the known exactly solvable models; in particular, the transport operator K is a scalar type spectral operator. A spectral resolution for K is obtained by contour integration techniques applied to bounded functions of K. Explicit formulas are developed for the solutions of full and half range problems. The theory is applied to anisotropicneutron transport, yielding results which are proved to be equivalent to those of Mika.