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title: "Dakar BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) Network – Senegal"
url: "https://www.systra.com/en/projects/dakar-e-brt-electric-bus-rapid-transit-network-senegal/"
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date_published: 2024-01-24
date_modified: 2024-09-11
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  - Project Management and Construction
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  - Senegal
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# Dakar BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) Network – Senegal

![Dakar BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) Network – Senegal](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240117-inauguration-brt-dakar-cetud-1.jpg)

**The capital of Senegal is equipped with an electric BRT (e-Bus Rapid Transit) network, a project which SYSTRA teams accompanied on site.**

SYSTRA worked as the project management assistant (PMA) for CETUD, the authority
that organises transport in Dakar, to supervise the construction of this e-BRT
network.

Work began in October 2019, and the first electric bus prototype was presented
to the people of Dakar on April 4 this year, on the occasion of the 63rd
anniversary of Senegal’s independence.

### HALVING JOURNEY TIMES

Four bus lines are planned for this network. The route will link the Guédiawaye
Prefecture to the Petersen bus station in the heart of the city, serving the key
points of Dakar. This will halve the journey time between the terminals, from 90
to 45 minutes, and will also provide greater safety with dedicated platform
stations. Persons with reduced mobility (PRM) will have direct access to
high-floor platforms and to buses.

The network has been designed to provide greater comfort and regularity thanks
to a dedicated roadway and traffic priorities at junctions. Each terminus of the
network will be connected to a multimodal hub with feeder buses to provide a
finer service to the suburbs and maximise intermodality. As a result, 69% of the
city’s population will be able to access the city centre in less than an hour,
instead of only 12% today.

### A SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY SOLUTION

[The arrival of the future e-BRT network](https://www.systra.com/en/markets/bus-rapid-transit/)
will provide a sustainable solution to road congestion and air pollution in
Dakar, where more than a quarter of the Senegalese population lives and which
has almost three-quarters of the country’s cars, on just 0.3% of the national
territory.

After the TER line, brought into service at the end of 2021, which uses the most
modern systems (ERTMS Level 2 signalling, dual diesel-electric engines, etc.),
the e-BRT is a new stage in the Senegalese authorities’ path to sustainable
transport. Ultimately, the aim is for the network to run on renewable energy,
with recharging using solar-generated electricity, on the one hand from the
photovoltaic panels installed on the vehicles and, on the other, from a solar
power station that will store the energy during the day and redistribute it at
night.

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