Abidjan

Abidjan’s lagoon geography and rapid metropolitan growth make mobility a defining urban issue. Employment and services are concentrated across a city divided by water and major transport bottlenecks, while long commuting times and uneven access to public transport impose high costs on households and businesses.

Recent planning treats transport as part of the metropolitan structure rather than a series of isolated roads. The city’s master plan identifies major north–south and east–west corridors, while rapid-transit investment and interchange improvements seek to strengthen public transport across the urban area. This approach is critical because Abidjan is Côte d’Ivoire’s principal economic connector. The city’s productivity increasingly depends on whether housing, jobs and transport infrastructure can be organised around a coherent and accessible metropolitan network.