Planning of National Transport Infrastructure

In the Islamic Countries

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Increasing the involvement of academia to gain intellectual views in

policy formation.

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Aligning NTI plans to fiscal space.

5. Content of NTI

planning

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NTI planning should start with problem identification and mapping of

needs, and should have concrete achievable goals that fit in the policy

context.

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NTI plans should include measures as well as projects and provide a

comprehensive set of directions that will enable policies to be

implemented.

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Investments should be optimized by comparing them to the best

alternative investment in view of the specific transport objective.

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Apply common guidelines for project appraisal and assessment for the

OIC members.

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Sustainable Development Goals should be mainstreamed into NTI

plans.

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NTI plans shouldmention project evaluation criteria and performance

indicators.

6. Data collection

method

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Develop common guidelines for data collection for the OIC members.

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Transportation data should be collected periodically (annually or

more frequent) and in a systematic way.

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Make use of new technologies and share data with the private domain

(open access).

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Make use of big data or mobile data in transport planning, real time

dynamic planning, the use of swarm intelligence and planning for

autonomous vehicles.

7. Monitoring and

evaluation system

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Transport plans should be annually revised.

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Setting up an independent agency to monitor and evaluate the

implementation of the plan.

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The focus of the monitoring should include the outcomes instead of

only on the achieved target and financial resources allocation.

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Plan implementation and performance monitoring could be public

domain using contemporary means such as dashboards.

Finally, a large variety of NTI planning practices and procedures exists among the OIC Member

States, some deliver an effective planning and some do not. The following diagram shows an

ideal NTI planning framework and procedure that would deliver a better performance of NTI

plans. This does not suggest that the current practices need to be completely changed. This

diagram could be used as a basic guideline instead.