Governance of Transport Corridors in OIC Member States:
Challenges, Cases and Policy Lessons
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Table ES 2 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
and
dissemination
Selected data is
exchanged, no
standards or
formats
More coordinated
effort in
exchanging data,
with more
harmonized
standards
Further
integration, for
example in joint
publications.
Integrated
systems for data
collection and
management and
publication
6. Corridor
promotion
and
stakeholder
consultation
Little promotion,
mainly to identify
key stakeholders
to set up corridor
governance model
Joint promoting
and attracting
more stakeholder
support for
corridor
development
Establishing
institution for
promotion and
stakeholders
approach
Advanced
institutions for
promotion and
making sure
stakeholders meet
regularly
7. Capacity
building:
technical
assistance and
studies
Studies to
establish corridor
objective
Coordinating
studies, but
mostly national
Cooperative
studies and
establishing
institution for
technical
assistance
Studies published
regularly and
dedicated
institution for
technical
assistance
Source: consortium.
Based on the description of the governance domains for the four levels, a number of governance
archetypes can be defined, as presented below, including leading principles:
 Information exchange: exchange of information to facilitate corridor performance;
 Coordination: increased level of coordination;
 Cooperation : a coordinated approach, working closer together, joint systems;
 Integration: integration of systems and working arrangements.
These archetypes can be used to identify the governance development level of a transport corridor.
This can then be the basis for defining actions that best fit that level of governance development. In the