Transport can provide Central Asia with access to international markets. The new vision on transport in the region implies creation of transit crossroads to form the transport framework of Europe.

Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.