Track: Transportation and Traffic

Abstract

The Urban Public Transport (UPT) is an essential service in view of its socio-economic ‎effects ‎and therefore ensuring efficient and effective delivery is a priority for most ‎governments at both ‎the local and national levels.‎ The Moroccan UPT sector has a ‎range of ‎organizational, social, economic, financial and environmental issues. ‎In this paper, we will focus on the the governance issues to the extent that governance is a set of institutional, organizational and regulatory framework to organizing, coordinating and governing the urban public transport sector. The main aims of this paper are to analyze the current UPT governance arrangements in large Moroccan cities, to describe the reforms initiated by Moroccan government and discuss its main results, and to describe the target governance model of UPT and presents the progress of the measures taken to achieve it.