The rapid deterioration in traffic conditions on the Cape Verde peninsula (Dakar region) in recent years has actively revived the project for a motorway link between central Dakar and the city of Thiès, 70 km to the east. This is a half-urban/half-interurban project, in a very densely populated area.
The project, piloted by APIX (Agence Nationale pour la Promotion de l’Investissement et des Grands Travaux), was designed as a fully or partially concessioned structure, with tolls to finance investment, operation and maintenance.
SETEC International contributed its expertise in terms of traffic and revenue studies to measure the feasibility of such an arrangement.
In a second phase, the Eiffage Sénégal/Eiffage TP Group, within the framework of the CET (design, operation, transfer) contract, then entrusted setec international with the integrated project management engineering missions for the Pikine/Diamniadio section, the 3rd and longest section of the freeway eventually linking Dakar to Thiès.
