Improving Transnational Transport Corridors

In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases

180

Table 69: Weighted Score

All corridors score relatively low on the social factors and environmental and energy factors.

Both of these areas are given low weights by the experts, showing that these do not play an

important role in the success of a transport corridor. Moreover, the corridor performance

scores given by Fimotions on both criteria are also low, showing that they are not prioritized in

the development agenda of the studied transport corridors.

The results of the MCA clearly show the power of the method as being robust and intelligent. It

has been suggested that the questionnaire be circulated more widely to increase the scope of

the sample. A feature of the subsequent analysis is that the MCA final scoring- may be

disaggregated by expert category, country and organization – such as government and non-

government. If there was more time and resources then a much more robust MCA could have

been carried out.

Criteria

TRACECA CAREC NTTC TAH1 INSTC Mashreq

Political and Institutional Factors

15.3

11.5

12.5

4.8

11.5

3.8

Economic Factors

11.3

8.5

9.2

3.5

8.5

2.8

Trade Facilitation

9.8

11.4

7.3

6.5

5.7

4.9

Social Factors

4.0

5.0

2.0

1.2

1.6

2.8

Safety, Security & Legal Liability

3.2

6.3

2.0

0.8

6.3

2.0

Technical and Operational Factors

8.8

9.4

2.5

3.1

7.5

Environmental and Energy Factors

6.5

5.4

1.1

2.2

Total Score