Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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Intelligent Traffic Management strategies
One objective of intelligent infra management is to optimize the utilization of the available
road network within the service levels set by policy and governing principles (reliability,
availability, maintainability, safety). Although on a transport system level, this is set in the
context of commonality, here the focus is on road operations. Another important area would
be an operation and traffic control-management by e.g. ITS and that provides all actors within
the freight transport with a variety of advanced options for efficient and flexible seamless
freight shipments.
Freight Corridor Governance
The management of green fright corridor must be fitted with an adequate toolbox of data,
models & methods to allow adequate risk based evaluations and decisions on the desired
performance/service levels by the different road administrations involved in the selected
corridors(ERTRAC, 2011). (Panagakos, 2010) defines the following KPIs that reflect the
success factors of transport corridors and supply chain against the SDGs of the European
Union.
Efficiency Indicators
1. Absolute unit costs (€/ton), used for comparisons of transport solutions on the same route.
Also used to express costs incurred on nodes. •
2. Relative unit costs (€/tkm), used for comparisons of transport solutions either on different
routes within the same corridor, or on different corridors.
3. An additional indicator concerning the open, fair and non-discriminatory access to
corridors and transhipment facilities can be considered for inclusion, in accordance with
the relevant requirement for co-modality explicitly stated in the Freight Transport Logistics
Action Plan
Service quality Indicators
1. Transport time, expressed in either absolute terms (hours, days) or in relative terms
(average speed)
2. Reliability, expressed as the percentage of on-time deliveries
3. Frequency of service, expressed as number of shipments available per week
4. ICT applications, expressed as the assessed result of -
- Availability of tracking services on nodes/links
- Integration & functionality of tracking services
- Availability of other ICT services on nodes/links
- Integration & functionality of other ICT services
5. Cargo security, expressed as percentage of security incidents over total number of
shipments
6. Cargo safety, expressed as percentage of safety incidents over total number of shipments