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MITTD is reputed to be weak (European Commission, 2016). Commercial entities do not release
data for use in transport planning, according to respondents to the questionnaire that was part
of this study.
For a complete analysis of data collection method, it is very useful to refer to the final report
drafted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2012. Despite the distance in
time which could be playing a relevant role in a time of fast changes as the present one, methods
and procedures as the ones currently used will be assumed.
The collection and analysis of basic data involves socio-economic and transport sectors that
include also trading, industry, business investment and physical distribution industry trends.
Additionally, they are also widely used surveys to determine the actual status of traffic and
physical distribution. The main source of this procedure is the National Agency of Statistics and
Demographics (ANSD) that collects and elaborates data belonging to sectors.
The Road Works and Management Agency (Ageroute) is responsible for the implementation of
road data management. Among its ambitions there is also the automation of traffic counts
(European Commission, 2016).
It is however essential to keep in mind the general fallacies of survey methods such as that the
sequence of questions can influence answers, and the very common problems of sample size
bias and sample credibility bias.
Once more, data from a survey were used for another study. In particular, data from two
household travel survey helped to analyse the changes in daily mobility patterns in Dakar. The
data were funded by the Executive Board for Public Transport in Dakar (Executive Council of
Urban Transport of Dakar, CETUD), which is a public agency created in 1997 in order to
implement and monitor policy for the public transport sector in the region of Dakar.
It is the same institution that coordinates public services and had been complemented by the
introduction of a private public consortium, the Dakar Dem Dikk (DDD), to help managing the
increasing transport demand in the capital. To assess the demand for public transports, an
innovative study (Wang, 2015) used mobile phone data. They were collected from a mobile
phone operator, combined with official data from public transport services.
3.4.7. Monitoring System
The monitoring and evaluation programs are useful to build strategic programwith a maximum
impact. A rigorous program is essential for prioritizing policy and regulatory actions. The
importance of monitoring and evaluation was experienced first-hand by Senegal. In fact, due to
the weakness of monitoring and evaluation programs in transport projects undertaken under
the Urban Mobility Improvement Project (UMIP) and others financed by the World Bank, it was
not possible to report data on key performance indicators wholly and this led to the
unavailability of a feedback that could have informed for mid-course corrections. Currently,
however, the situation has been improved and the extent of coordinated, comprehensive and
regular reporting on plan implementation is reputed to be high.
The SEP is subject to a Committee that is responsible of its implementation and monitoring, the
Committee for Strategic Orientation that operates under the authority of the President of the