Master 2 “Transport and sustainable urban mobility”

Type of diploma

Master degree (60 ECTS)

Target audience

Technicians in charge of transport and urban mobility projects
Senior managers and decision-makers

Partners

CODATU
Institut National d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme – National Institute of Urban Planning and Development
Senghor University

Key figures

3 classes trained (2017-18, 2018-19, 2021-22),
39 auditors have followed this training

Periodicity

Promotion every 18 to 24 months

Faire une demande de renseignement

Teaching device and method

Face-to-face teaching (and distance learning for some international teachers) alternating between lectures by teachers and experts, exercises and case studies. Field trips may be planned.

Model

The course consists of 8 teaching units and an internship, spread over 16 months (average duration of teaching 330 hours). As an indication, the course of study can be organised as follows:

UE 1Introduction to Sustainable Urban Mobility
UE 2Urban and Regional Mobility Planning
UE 3Governance, Financing and Defining Travel
UE 4Project Management of Public Transport Networks
UE 5Development and Operation of Public Transport Networks
UE 6Mobility demand forecasting and fare and commercial policy
UE 7Traffic engineering and flow management
UE 8Final Project and Examinations

Expected skills

Analyse, understand and respond to the demand for mobility in African cities;
Develop, optimise and operate multimodal transport networks;
Develop and implement urban mobility policies and urban travel plans in Moroccan cities;
To ensure the project management and management of large infrastructure projects (mass transport system).

Our training catalogue

Training

MOOC 'Electrification of paratransit services'

Formation à distance avec possibilité de décliner sous forme synchrone (ouverture d’une session sur une plateforme de formation), ou asynchrone. Pour chaque séquence, de 2 à 4 vidéos sont proposées par des experts du sujet pour présenter les principales connaissances et les retours d’expériences existant, ainsi que des cas d’études de villes du Sud. A ce jour, la formation est uniquement disponible en anglais (vidéos, évaluations et supports de suivi).

Training Dakar

"Road safety management" training

This short course is designed to raise awareness among professionals who have already invested in the subject, so there are no pre-requisites. It is a hybrid course: webinars with international experts are run on a weekly basis under the aegis of a local educational coordinator. Participants carry out group work which is presented at the end of the course.

Training

MOOC "Urban Mobility in Africa"

Distance learning, which can be delivered synchronously (by opening a session on a training platform) or asynchronously. The course videos are supplemented by teaching summaries, testimonial videos, documentary references, quizzes and discussion sessions with experts in the form of webinars as part of synchronous training systems. Since 2022, the course videos have been available with English subtitles, and the teaching summaries and bibliographical references are also available in English.

Training Lome

Master 2 "Transport and urban mobility in Africa"

Face-to-face teaching alternates between lectures given by teachers and experts at the Ecole Africaine des Métiers de l'Architecture et de l'Urbanisme in Lomé, and exercises and simulations. Field trips may be planned, and a work placement must be completed during the course, leading to the writing of a dissertation.

Master 2 "Transport and sustainable urban mobility"

Face-to-face teaching (and distance learning for some international teachers) alternating between lectures by teachers and experts, exercises and case studies. Field trips may be planned.