Ghana Urban Transport Project

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The key objective of the Urban Transport Project is to: Improve mobility in areas of participating metropolitan, municipal or district assemblies (MMDAs) through a combination of traffic engineering measures, management improvements, regulation of the public transport industry, and implementation of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. The key GEF objective is to: Promote a shift to more environmentally sustainable urban transport modes and encourage lower transport-related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions along the pilot BRT corridor in Accra. The project has five components: i) Institutional development which will strengthen capacity of Ministries and agencies concerned with urban transport, transport operators and MMDAs; ii) Traffic Engineering, Management and Safety whose subcomponents are (a) traffic management in the Accra MMDA areas; (b) area-wide traffic signal control in the Accra MMDA areas; (c) traffic management in the Kumasi MMDA areas; (d) area-wide traffic signal control in the Kumasi Metropolitan Area; (e) enforcement of traffic rules and education; and ( f ) design and supervision of works under sub-components (a) through (e); iii) Development of BRT system whose subcomponents are as follows: (a) BRT infrastructure implementation (including segregated bus-ways, interchange facilities, and terminals and facilities for pedestrians); iv) Integration of Urban Development and Transport Planning for Better Environmental Management v) Project outcome monitoring whose subcomponents are studies to support the monitoring of project outcomes through evaluation of (a) transport and social impact indicators, (b) environmental impact indicators, and (c) capacity development indicators.