AMUGA is an Independent Administrative Authority (AAI) with legal personality and financial autonomy. Its mission is to ensure the organization and coordination of the different modes of transport within the urban transport area under its jurisdiction. Thus, AMUGA ensures, in Greater Abidjan, the institutional governance of urban mobility defined as urban transport and the movement of people and goods within a delimited territory, as well as the infrastructure and equipment necessary for transport, means of transport, services related to transport and travel in this territory.
As such, it is responsible for:
- To anticipate developments resulting from the territorial development of Greater Abidjan by developing an urban travel plan, abbreviated PDU, applicable to the urban transport perimeter;
- To define and deploy a single, structured, homogeneous and coherent transport and urban mobility policy within the urban transport perimeter;
- To issue and issue authorizations relating to urban transport services;
- To ensure control of the application and compliance with the rules by all stakeholders;
- To study, implement and manage fees and taxes resulting from transport activity carried out within the scope of urban transport;
- To define and organize the urban road, rail and river-lagoon transport network within the urban transport perimeter;
- To define and organize competition between urban transport operators;
- To measure the performance of the urban transport system;
- To program and enter into contracts with the competent State structures with a view to carrying out transport, mobility and parking infrastructure developments as well as suitable means of transport;
- To carry out and ensure delegated project management of public transport investment projects;
- To be the interlocutor for all economic and institutional actors active within the scope of urban transport for any subject relating to urban mobility, in particular subjects relating to the integration and creation of technological platforms.
