Governance of Transport Corridors in OIC Member States:
Challenges, Cases and Policy Lessons
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Level Description of characteristics
working across borders. Example: Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination
Authority (NCTTCA);
 Private sector–led arrangements. The private sector or autonomous state-owned
enterprises may consider it necessary to exploit the corridor approach to develop
business by growing volumes to support further investment or to create sufficient
mass to advocate for the resolution of operational constraints. Example: Maputo
Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI);
 Project-based corridor arrangements. The management of a corridor is linked to the
implementation of a project, which can trigger setting up initial structures, which may
sustain over time. Example: The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Organization (ALCO).
Source: World Bank.
Kunaka and Carruthers (2014) note that international corridors can be governed at a regional level, in
which case a corridor is merely an aspect in the grand regional transport plan; or at a corridor level,
where the corridor is the spatial scale for which the governing body is responsible. The authors
mention the legal and organisational dimension of corridor governance, but mainly focus on the
planning of a corridor and only briefly touch upon the governance aspect.
Functions of transport corridor governance
Most literature on corridor governance uses the same focus as the above-mentioned toolkit, i.e. focus
on what corridor policy should be, instead of how policy is established in the first place. An exception
is Arnold (2006), who presents the following corridor management activities: planning, financing,
legislation, regulation, operation, monitoring and promotion. Following Arnold (2006), we aim to use
a framework for analysing the governance of corridors in OIC member countries. The framework is
built upon the literature on corridor governance (as presented in Annex 1), and available empirical
accounts from existing corridors.
Towards developing a conceptual framework for transport corridor governance, a number of functions
and activities can be identified. This has resulted in the definition of eight transport corridor
governance functions, presented i
Figure 2.1 Functions of transport corridor governance
Transport corridor
governance and
management
Planning and financing
of transport
infrastructure
Legislative and
regulatory reforms
Harmonising technical
standards and
interoperability
Building capacity
through technical
assistance and studies
Consultation with
stakeholders and
promoting corridor use
Monitoring corridor
performance
Aligning border crossing
and customs procedures
Communicating results
and exchanging data
Source: consortium.