Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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Figure 51: Mombasa Port Transit Traffic 2015 share by NTTC Member
Source: Fimotions (2017), data source: Mombasa Port Authority Annual Report 2015.
Figure 52: Mombasa Port, gateway to the NTTC
Source: NCTTCA.
The use of ITS can potentially enhance the efficiency of a transport corridor. Although
desirable, no record was found of ITS being used in the case study area. However, important
amenities to improve corridor performance are smart signing, electronic data interchange
between borders, real time traffic information broadcasting and vehicle tracking. A vital
component to enable these amenities is, of course, the availability of Geographic Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS). Internet penetration monitoring data best illustrates the issue of low
Uganda
78%
Rwanda
4%
Burundi
1%
Kenya
0%
DRC
5%
S. Sudan
9%
N.
Tanzania
3%