Ambitions for the development and conversion of existing transport routes to “smart corridors” have largely failed to materialise. The Programme for Infrastructure and Development in Africa (Pida) priority action plan (PAP) number three is: “Model Smart Corridors and Efficiency Monitoring”. “SMART” stands for “Safety, Mobility, Automated, Real-time Traffic Management” PIDA estimates that corridor inefficiencies in Africa cost consumers and businesses over $75 billion a year. The recommendation is that all of Africa’s transport corridors should be converted into smart corridors to reduce this cost - starting with 25 priority transport corridors out of a total of about 47 corridors in Africa. “Smart” corridors would be paperless, with weighbridges and tolls automated, in order to minimise delays. This technology would reduce the cost of doing business across the continent. Plans for the development of smart corridors date back to at least 2012, and pilot roll-outs were recommended for the north-south (South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia) and Dar es Salaam corridor in 2016. Despite the technology being available, and the example of smart corridors in a number of countries, FTW could find no evidence of large-scale roll-out and the marketing of a particular corridor as “smart”. There is, however, some progress being made in the form of single customs windows and the real-time tracking systems that all of the better hauliers have fitted to trucks.