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Governance domain Elements included
5. Corridor performance: monitoring and
dissemination
 Measuring corridor performance, clear KPIs
defined;
 Monitoring system to measure corridor
performance;
 Dissemination and making data and statistics
publicly available.
6. Corridor promotion and stakeholder
consultation
 Promoting the corridor, by providing
publications and organising events;
 Consultation of stakeholders on a regular basis.
7. Capacity building: technical assistance and
studies
 Build capacity by providing technical assistance
and implement studies.
8.1.3 Corridor governance is dynamic and situational
No blue print for optimal corridor governance exists. The needs for corridor governance, and the way
the seven defined governance domains are shaped, depends on a range of factors, such as maturity of
the corridor, political will and support, regional stability, the presence of an international organisation
facilitating corridor governance, and available funding. As such, corridor governance is dynamic,
evolving over time, and situational, depending on the local and regional setting of the corridor.
Considering different transport corridors, it can be noted that there are different levels of corridor
governance. We distinguish four levels of transport governance: information exchange; coordination;
cooperation and integration. These levels and the characteristics for the defined corridor governance
domains are presented i
Table 8.3 Levels of transport corridor governance
Governance
domains
Information
exchange
Coordination Cooperation Integration
1. Corridor
objectives and
political
support
Identifying
common
objectives among
participants
Broadly defined
objectives and
laid down in non-
legally binding
fashion
Objectives defined
in more detail and
concrete plans for
corridor
management
Defining broad
range of specific
objectives and
management
principles
2. Legal
framework
Weak and
developing in
terms of bilateral
and sub-regional
agreements
Maturing, with
focus on
harmonization of
regulations and
standards
Further
developed, with
mutual
recognition
(inspections,
certificates, etc)
A common and
integrated legal
basis
3. Institutional
framework
Developing, for
example joint
working groups,
regional
workshops
Developing, more
formal structures,
for example
observatories
Further
developed, for
example corridor
coordination
committees
Integrated, for
example corridor
authorities with
responsibility for
the full corridor
4. Infrastructure:
financing,
planning and
programming
Informing, no
dedicated funds
available
Increased
coordination,
joint projects
More cooperation
and increased
corridor
perspective,
emerging of joint
earmarked funds
Integrated
planning and
prioritization,
dedicated funds
available
5. Corridor
performance
monitoring
Selected data is
exchanged, no
More coordinated
effort in
exchanging data,
Further
integration, for
Integrated
systems for data
collection and