Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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According to Kunaka and Carruthers (2014) there are three main uses of corridor performance
measures:
 assessing how well a corridor is performing and where the main deficiencies are;
 tracking changes in corridor performance over time and determining whether changes
made to improve performance have had measurable impact;
 determining performance relative to other corridors serving the same or different
origins and destinations of traded goods.
In order to make the monitoring process relatively simple to be replicable and affordable, one
should limit to a few indicators to be included in the monitoring process. These indicators
should satisfy several criteria: be measurable, should add only marginally to the cost of
collecting data, be relevant, be specific and consistent (Kunaka and Carruthers, 2014). “It is
important to be precise on several aspects to which the indicator applies, including type of
products and their packaging, the size of the consignment and the frequency of shipments,
whether it is for import and export traffic, the component of the corridor to monitor, as well as
the specific origins and destinations of the traffic monitored.”
“The design of an effective system for monitoring the performance of a corridor requires
decisions about four key dimensions:
 the parameters to be monitored
 the locations for which they should be measured
 the types of product and forms of shipment for which they should be measured
 the frequency with which the monitoring should be made.
Five main indicators measure the performance of a corridor:
 the volume of trade passing through a seaport gateway, a border post, or some other
important checkpoint and handled by different modes (volumes reflect trade growth
and can be used to assess how choices of time, cost, and reliability affect flows along a
corridor);
 the time taken to transit the whole corridor and each part of it;
 the cost to importers or shippers to move cargo over the length of a corridor or a part
of it;
 the variation in time and cost for the whole corridor and each part of its components
(reliability);
 the security of goods transported in the corridor and the safety of the people involved
in that transport.”
2.11.2. Evaluation
According to (Laird et al., 2005) transport infrastructure projects have network effects (‘total
economic impact’) which are not taken into account in the appraisal of these projects. “Good
quality appraisals should be capable of picking up relevant network effects in the transport