(Ebook) The Phenomenon of Mobility, a Development Challenge for the City Of Algiers by Ph.D. candidate OUAFA LOUAFI

(Ebook) The Phenomenon of Mobility, a Development Challenge for the City Of Algiers by Ph.D. candidate OUAFA LOUAFI

Urban displacements are a major challenge for the economic and socialdevelopment of the city and are a sign of quality of life. They are defined by lesscongestion, less pollution, congestion and urban sprawl. In Algeria, the new urbanpolicies are seen as the beginning of a positive transformation of the city's situation,which degradation seems to have origin in a lack of coordination between planning,the deregulation of the transport sector and the urban planning of cities. Therefore,it is necessary to develop a transportation policy based on a logic of sustainabledevelopment of the urban area where the optimization of mobility is required. InAlgiers, transport and urban planning have been the subject of many debates thathave shown that the city suffers from several problems, in terms of transport,mobility, traffic and parking. This makes it a perfect example of a city affected byurban sprawl generating a series of other problems that come together to cause animbalance in the layout of spaces. In attempting to address these problems in order,the first would be the increase in the various displacements due to themetropolisation and centralization of human activities. These displacements are notonly in continuous increase but are experiencing a real imbalance where thequantity dominates on the quality, which leads to a remarkable saturation of thetransport networks, and thus to a dense traffic notably during the peak hours. Thepurpose of this article is to demonstrate the importance of developing the mostadequate operating policies for the various modes of transport that are the mostappropriate in the capital city of Algiers, and to implement an investment programin the management of mobility in order to transform the city.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(1), 144-155.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4711