The objective of this work is to measure the impact of the freeway construction on the accessibility of the city of Fez. Accessibility was measured in order to search for better logistics connectivity of the Moroccan economy with international markets. To reach our goal, we have organized this work into two parts. The first was accessibility’s concept approach taking into account its potential and geographical dimensions and the second consisted of an application to the city of Fez from several regions of Morocco.
As for the methodological side, we used Shimbel index to measure geographic accessibility, the graph theory to model and assess the road network and Hansen model to measure the potential accessibility.
As a result, we estimate that Fez geographical and potential accessibilities were improved by 18% and 1% respectively after the Fez-Oujda freeway startup. We also note that a potential gain of 30% is possible if the Fez-Tetouan freeway project is achieved.