Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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Figure 8: Wildlife issues on TAH4 (North – South Corridor) in Botswana
Source: Douglas Rasbash (2016).
It is difficult to spin out specific environmental and energy issues to transport corridors only.
Hence literatures about these issues are very limited. The keyword “environment” in different
literatures of transport corridors refers mostly to trade environment instead of natural
environment. It is very likely due to the fact that energy and environmental standards are most
obviously transferrable along transport corridors, for example green-fueled lorries and trucks.
Global concerns about climate change, energy use, environmental impacts, and limits to
financial resources for transportation infrastructure indicate the need for new approaches to
planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining transportation systems. These
will include making climate adaptation adjustments to engineering specifications, alignments,
and master planning, incorporating associated environmental measures, promoting green
freight and logistics, and adjusting maintenance and contract scheduling (Asian Development
Bank, 2014).
The share of freight emissions of greenhouse gases has been estimated at 42 percent of
transport emissions and 7 percent of total emissions. In the long term, the share of freight
logistics is expected to grow to 60 percent of transport emissions in 2050 (World Bank, 2016).
These results are consistent with the growing voluntary targets set by a number of major
international organizations. The International Energy Agency, for example released the ETP
2010 BLUE Map Scenario in 2010 (IEA, 2010), setting a target for 50% reduction in energy-
related emissions by 2050. To meet this target, the model proposed the fuel mix presented in