Master 2 “Transport and urban mobility in Africa”

Type of diploma

Master's degree (60 ECTS)

Target audience

Master 1 students
Technicians in charge of transport and urban mobility projects
Managers and decision-makers

Partners

CODATU
EAMAU
Senghor University

Key figures

4 classes trained (2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2019-20),
62 auditors have followed this training

Periodicity

Promotion every 18 months (training on break since 2020)

Demande d'information

Teaching device and method

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 professional internship must be carried out during the course, leading to the writing of a thesis.

Model

The course is divided into 11 teaching units and an internship, spread over 2 semesters (average duration of the courses: 300 hours). As an indication, the course of study can be organised as follows:

UE 1Urban dynamics and mobility issues in Africa
UE 2Mobility demand
UE 3Urban and regional mobility planning
UE 4Governance and planning of urban mobility
UE 5Integrated transport supply
UE 6Road, traffic and safety management
UE 7Operation and management of multimodal transport networks
UE 8Environment, transport and innovation
UE 9Methodology for writing and defending the thesis
UE 10Writing the dissertation
UE 11Defence of the dissertation

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 African cities;
Adapt to the specific situations of the African context

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.