Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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3. Successful Transport Corridors Outside the OIC Geography
3.1. Introduction
When can one say a corridor is successful? This depends on the policy objectives of
establishing a corridor: such as encouraging trade, reducing transport costs, improving access
to markets, promoting economic integration, or enhancing modal choice? Based on such
objectives, another challenge is to measure the results of a corridor so that success can be
ascertained. Corridors induce complex interrelationships: they are both a consequence of
many phenomena and equally they are the cause for other changes, together with a complex of
other causes – this effect is known as circular causation12. The corridor might also be just one
of the many interventions in a situation that was already (un)successful.
The most successful of all transport corridors must be those of the European Union. TEN-T
corridors are the pinnacle of transport corridors in every sense. TEN-T is a network of
corridors. It is not easy to pinpoint the impact of the TEN-T corridors on the EU region, as the
corridors were just one aspect of a multi-sided diamond of development policies.
The network of TEN-T transport corridors started to be developed in 1980’s with studies to
determine the criteria for their selection, route identification and performance monitoring. A
series of conferences set up the initial 10 TEN T corridors that have evolved into the latest
network agreed in 201313.
The aim of the TEN T is to ensure that progressively, and by 2050, the great majority of
Europe's citizens and businesses will be no more than 30 minutes' travel time from the
comprehensive network, and that between 2010 and 2015 passenger transport grows with
42% and freight transport with 60%. illustrates key facts and figures of the
European transport and mobility. The TEN-T initiative has three pillars: 1 Fair & Competitive,
2 Connected and 3 Clean.
The TEN-T Map is given below and the URL to the interactive link14.
12 developed by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal in the year 1956
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14 and the basic TEN T