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Improve the accident data collection system so that reliable statistical data is readily available

to inform road safety policies and facilitate monitoring.

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Establish a uniform training and examination programme for all for obtaining a driving

licence.

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Provide a minimumof 50 hours of road safety education per year to all primary and secondary

school students.

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Organize targeted road safety awareness campaigns

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Establish a functional vehicle technical control test by 2018

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Enhance the cooperation between the official and independent forces in order to improve the

levels of enforcement.

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Improve the infrastructure road safety standards and monitoring, conduct road safety audits

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Reduce by 10 to 15% number of injuries and deaths related to road accidents by improving

the post-accident reaction.

The programme involves training courses for police officers, driving instructors, professional drivers,

school teachers, doctors and paramedics, safety audit team members and members of the

Administration of Road Transport.

A series of actions undertaken in collaboration by various departments are planned for each objective.

The monitoring of the performance of the plan will be done based on indicators measuring the success

of the actions planned for each objective.

The total cost of implementation is estimated at 8,446,331,960 CFA (almost 14.6 million USD).

4.3.3.3.

Urban Transport Masterplan for the Dakar Metropolitan Region – 2025 (Projet de

plan de déplacements urbains pour l’agglomération de Dakar (PDUD) – Horizon

2025)

The PDUD 2025 covers the period between 2009 and 2025 as part of the Programme for the

Improvement of Urban Mobility (Programme d’Amélioration de la Mobilité Urbaine -PAMU

). The

plan is expected to be completed in three phases in order to align with the UrbanMaster Plan for Dakar

– 2025 (PDU 2025). Although the PDU was eventually withdrawn to be replaced by the Urban

Masterplan 2035 (see summary below), PDUD is still being applied. The three implementation phases

of the PDUD are:

PDUD-I : 2009 – 2015, including three evaluations in 2011, 2013, and 2015 (completed and currently

being evaluated),

PDUD-II : 2016-2020, including two evaluations in 2018 and 2020, and

PDUD-III : 2021-2025, including two evaluations in 2023 and 2025.

The PDUD 2025 has seven overarching objectives, each one of which includes a number of specific

objectives:

Improve traffic flows for passenger transport (includes specific objectives related to

public transport, integration between modes, pedestrian and cycling movements,

traffic management, parking and mobility of disabled people),

Improve the efficiency of freight movements (includes specific objectives related to

parking, loading and unloading, and distribution),

Improve road safety (includes objectives related to drivers’ training and traffic rules),

PAMU covered the period between 2001 and 2008 and its objectives covered a wider area than that of PDUD,

covering among others institutional reorganization, road and rail infrastructure, financial support and bus fleet

renewal.