Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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EU - SADC Programming
COMCEC should note that particular progress is expected to be made in the following areas:
1. Cross Border Third Party Motor Vehicle Insurance: recognizing the COMESA Yellow Card
Scheme as the Tripartite scheme;
2. RTMS standard which will be used as a benchmark to audit and assess transporters and
their clients with regard to the issues covered by the standard which now cover transport
operations, border processes and adherence to other regulatory requirements during a
transit transport movement across a number of countries;
3. Road Transport Market Liberalization (RTML);
4. Vehicle Over-Load Controls;
5. Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations and Standards.
3.8. Environmental and Energy Factors
The most successful transport corridors in terms of environmental and energy factors are the
TEN-T. Corridor-wide climate and environmental appraisals are being done continuously in
these networks. The important aspects are climate change mitigation, adaptation to climate
change, reduction of negative environmental impacts, and tackling (rail) noise.
Besides other improvement activities, TEN-T work plans shall contain sustainable aspects
through “measures to be taken in order to mitigate GHG emissions, noise and, as appropriate,
other negative environmental impacts” (European Union, 2013).
The Directive on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (EU Directive
2014/94) provides an example on the latest development. It requires Member States to
develop national policy frameworks for the market development of alternative fuels and their
infrastructure. At the same time it foresees the use of common technical specifications for
recharging and refueling stations and by that paves the way for setting up appropriate
consumer information on alternative fuels, including a clear and sound price comparison
methodology. These are translated in the following objectives: 1) an appropriate number of
compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling points along the TEN-T core network by end 2025;
and 2) an appropriate number of LNG refueling points for heavy-duty vehicles along the TEN-T
core network by end 2025.
For trucks, the application of LNG will lead to a GHG reduction of 10-15%, provided that the
energy consumption increase of gas engines can be limited to some 5-10%. The following
graph shows Well to Wheel (WTW)25 GHG emissions for different fuels and transport
modalities: truck, inland ship and sea ship.
25 WTW emissions are the total of Well To Tank/WTT emissions (that are produced during the production of the fuel) and
Tank To Wheel/TTW emissions (that are produced when the vehicles are being operated, as such the emissions are directly
dependent on the required amount of fuel).