Planning of National Transport Infrastructure
In the Islamic Countries
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The range of values scored by each planning attribute is shown in The widest range
was the satisfaction with the content of the NTI plan for respective OIC members, while the least
discrepancy was in the procedural aspects of the preparation of NTI plans.
Table 16: Planning attributes range of values
Source: Fimotions
4.2. Policy Recommendations for OIC Member States
Although it is not suggested that NTI planning problems or solutions are the same for all OIC
countries, this recommendations section is an effort to consolidate the results of the analysis
and provide some specific suggestions towards improving NTI planning, based on our research,
observations, and good practice examples.
1. Political and legislation factors
 A national transport policy needs to be developed before developing a national
transport plan in order to provide a strategic direction towards common objective and
goals to be followed by sectoral plans and programs. A medium-term planning process
is therefore a better practice than developing an NTMP as the former is most likely
driven by a transport policy.
 Both policy and plans should be developed in a way that is less incremental and more
organic, that is to say from within and to avoid outsourcing the entire process to
consultants. This ensures buy-in and ownership.
 Transport plans should also be mandatory and have legal force through legislation.
2. Institutional and organizational factors
 Institutions must have capacity to implement plans. Therefore it is important to build
the institutional capacity by training or education of government officials and
professionals to increase the effectiveness of the current planning procedures and
techniques.
 The rule of subsidiarity should apply, transport master planning should be centralised
and subsector and urban planning decentralised.
Per Country
Political and Legislation
Institutional & Organizational
TechnicalProcedural
Content of NTI Plan
Data Collection MethodMonitoring & Evaluation
Max 5 4.25 5 4.2 4.8 4 5
Min 1 1.25 1 1.5 0 1 1
Range 4 3 4 2.7 4.8 3 4