Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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Figure 10: The four dimensions of corridor performance
Source: Hartmann (2013).
Hartmann illustrates CTO Analysis with nine African cases:
 Shifting routing patterns of the Burkina Faso trade;
 Entry border traffic counts in Tanzania;
 Regional traffic volumes on the Abidjan Lagos corridor;
 Impact of pre-arrival declaration on port dwell time;
 Transport time on Abidjan-Ouagadougou corridor;
 Border crossing times at the Kenya Uganda border of Malaba;
 Trucking operating costs in West Africa;
 Concentration of the trucking industry in East Africa;
 Age and operating conditions of truck fleet in Cameroun.
The World Bank has developed a Trade-and-Transport Management Toolkit (Kunaka and
Carruthers, 2014). A corridor has three main categories of intertwined dimensions:
infrastructure, services, and institutions for coordinating corridor activities (se .
Figure 11: The infrastructure-services-Institutions Nexus of Corridors
Source: Kunaka and Carruthers (2014) p. 17.