Transport in senegal
In Senegal, transport is placed in the heart of development strategies, with the development of sectoral policies underpinned by massive investment in infrastructure and services
An integrated strategy, accompanied by structural reforms, especially aimed at increasing the quality of transport services to support the best in terms of accessibility and mobility of goods and people and, further than, the socio-economic and preservation of the environment
I- Presentation of different ways of transport in Senegal
A- ROAD TRANSPORT IN SENEGAL
The road network reflects poorly the population distribution in the territory of Senegal. Moreover, this network is mostly in a degraded state. Indeed there are a non-class highways and roads used more class and is divided into national highways that provide links between administrative regions or states adjacent to regional roads that connect the heads of department places, in county roads, which operate between leaders of rural communities places the same department and finally urban roads that provide connections to the inside of cities.
Regarding the paved roads Senegal has 23.1 kilometres of broadly linear to 1000km2 coated surfaces. The proportion is obviously much stronger in Dakar and Thies which has also experienced the largest increase since 1996. The Dakar region is heavily innervated by paved roads as Thies region forced passage of traffic in and out of Dakar. A similar observation can be made for two regions near Dakar (Diourbel and Fatick).
This area is marked by three major phases: 1990-2001 stagnation networks; 2002 -2003: slight recovery of linear growth of road since 2004, the state undertook a major construction project and reconstruction of road
B- SEA TRANSPORT ACTIVITIES IN SENEGAL
Favorably located at the westernmost point of the continent and possessing up-to-date equipment, Dakar is one of the largest deepwater seaports on the West African coast, a major import-export