Governance of Transport Corridors in OIC Member States:
Challenges, Cases and Policy Lessons
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The seven governance domains have been used to systematically review the corridor governance of
the international corridors (TEN-T and SEETO) and the seven defined OIC corridors. To this end, the
seven governance domains are further detailed, as presented in Table ES1.
Table ES 1 Elements included in the seven governance domains
Governance domain Elements included
1. Corridor objectives and political support  Objectives of transport corridors: primary and
secondary. The defined corridor objectives strongly
affect the other six governance domains;
 Transport corridors are included in national
strategies and plans, as an indication of political
support.
2. Legal framework  The legal basis of the corridor (MoU, treaty) and the
extent to which the agreement is binding;
 Harmonisation of (legal) systems and procedures;
 Mutual recognition of systems and procedures.
3. Institutional framework  Organisation and characteristics, including presence
of a corridor secretariat;
 Involvement of stakeholders, including private
sector and local government.
4. Infrastructure: financing, planning and
programming
 Sources of finance available to effectively ensure
governance of transport corridors;
 Planning and programming of infrastructure
(corridor vs national level).
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.
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 in Table ES2.