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4. Improve land use planning (includes objectives related to coordination between land
use and transport planning, organize informal activity, facilitate the implementation
of urban masterplans are applied),
5. Protect the environment and improve the quality of public spaces (includes objectives
related to air quality, noise pollution, and traffic bottlenecks),
6. Secure adequate and equitable financing of the transport system (includes objectives
related to operations and development financing, and preserving the value of public
investments), and
7. Evaluation and monitoring of PDUD in order to secure its successful implementation
(includes objectives related to defining the institutional framework for the
implementation of the plan, securing the consensus of all involved parties and the
involvement of people with the necessary competencies).
The PDUD 2025 is aspiring to promote and enhance public transport and while rationalising the use
of private cars. The strategy has five areas of action:
 Passenger and non-motorized transport (including public transport, pedestrians, cyclists,
school children, people with disabilities, taxi users, marine transport and private cars)
 Economic development (including freight movements, land use planning, and occupation of
public spaces)
 Quality of life (including road safety, air pollution, energy consumption, noise pollution, and
quality of public spaces)
 Financing (including transport costs management, fare structures, taxation, financing and
management of transport systems, and investment optimisation), and
 Sustainable development (including institutional organization, cooperation on the PDUD,
sustainability of the plan, enhancing information collection and management, and capacity
building).
The PDUD 2025 was created as a response to persisting transport problems in Dakar during the
implementation of PAMU. Other projects, including the renovation of the PTB trains station and the
reorganization of minibus services, were also aimed at improving transport issues particularly related
to transport impacts of new construction sites. However, the allocation of decision making to various
authorities created discontinuities in the management of these projects.
The targets of the first implementation period 2009-2015 which is now complete and being evaluated
are:
 Increase modal share of public transport by 3%
 Increase public transport peak period speed by 30%
 Increase private vehicle peak period speed by 10%
 Reduce the duration of peak periods by 40%
 Increase the number of short duration parking spaces by 30% in the urban area
 Reduce by 90% the proportion of roads in bad condition
 Create 2000 new off road parking spaces
 Create 500 new parking spaces for HGVs
 Construct and rehabilitate 200km of footways
 Construct 50km of cycle lanes
 Introduce on demand public transport services with a capacity of 500 trips per day
 Reduce by 25% the number energy intensive vehicles
 Maintain the average motorized trip lengths at the 2009 levels
 Achieve 95% coverage of the transport demand
 Reduce the frequency of accidents by 30%
 Reduce the number of on road fatalities by 30%
 Reduce emissions from road transport by 30%