The urban travel plan, cornerstone of the city's planning

The city of Dakhla is one of the few cities in the Kingdom that has made the urban travel plan a cornerstone of its urban planning, as an anticipatory approach intended to control the constantly increasing urban traffic flows.Thus, the Urban Agency of Oued Eddahab-Ousserd launched in 2011 an anticipatory strategic study on urban traffic for the 2020 horizon, aiming to develop a plan to prevent the problems that may arise due to exponential urban growth and rapid expansion of the city.The study sets among its objectives the regulation of traffic in the city, the organisation of parking spaces for vehicles and trucks and the calming of urban traffic, confided to the MAP the regional director of the Agency, Ms. Hayat Sabri. It is a pioneering anticipatory study, Dakhla being one of the few cities to integrate urban travel into its development plan, she affirmed.After highlighting the imper…