🚲 Mobility

AccraMobile: Mapping the Trotro Network

Accra's new transport department, funded by the French development agency AFD, put surveyors with GPS phones onto the city's trotro minibuses. Concordia University's TRIP Lab mapped about 300 routes in 2015; a 2017 campaign with Transitec, Jungle Bus and Ghana's OpenStreetMap community moved the network into OSM. The GTFS export is still downloadable.

Completed 📅 2015–2017 ◆ Source-checked

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-01

🚲 Mobility Public transport Open data

🎓 Lesson

The mapping was funded as a project, not as a duty. Nobody was left holding it: no re-survey since 2017, and the GTFS version served today carries a service calendar that ran out on 31 January 2020. Ghana's OpenStreetMap community keeps the network alive - no agency owns it.

Evidence• No measured figure

Scale🏙️ City-wide

FundingAgence Francaise de Developpement (AFD)

📖 Terms in this entry: GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) · Bus rapid transit (BRT) · CBTC (communications-based train control)

Sources

↗ World Bank Data Catalog - Accra, Ghana: General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)Replaces an empty placeholder source. Hosts the survey output and dates the collection campaign to May and June 2015; licensed CC BY 4.0.

↗ OpenStreetMap Wiki - AccraMobile3'A project launched in July 2017 to map all the Tro tro lines of Accra, Ghana for the Department of Transport (DoT)'. Field work 19 July to late September 2017, by Jungle Bus, AFD, Transitec and the local OSM community; GTFS generated from the OSM data.

↗ La Fabrique des Mobilites - Accra MobilityThree phases: Concordia University in phases 1-2, Transitec with Jungle Bus in phase 3. About 300 paratransit lines documented, detailed service data on 60 of them. Deliverables recorded as 'Available & Validated'; page last updated 18 May 2020.

↗ Transitland - Accra Trotro GTFS feed (currency check)The feed is still fetched (checked 1 Aug 2026) from the AFD repository, but the active version's service calendar runs only 2019-03-04 to 2020-01-31 - the evidence that the data is archived, not maintained.

↗ GitHub - AFDLab4Dev/AccraMobility (project data repository)AFD's own repository for 'the project Accra Mobility (previously Accra Mobile)': maps, GTFS and papers. Marked deprecated and moved to DigitalTransport4Africa's GitLab, which returned 503 to the review sandbox.

↗ Trufi Association - Trotro App, AccraThe community journey planner built on the AccraMobile3 OpenStreetMap data, launched 2019 and described as 'mapped, developed, and updated by the Accra OpenStreetMap community'. App-store listings could not be confirmed during review (404 / rate limit).

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇰🇪 Digital Matatus Open Mapping Framework · Nairobi Same technique, opposite afterlife: Nairobi's feed is still maintained; Accra's stopped when the consultants left. 🇬🇭 Aayalolo: Accra's BRT That Became a Quality Bus Service · Accra Two answers to the same trotro network in the same city - map it, or try to replace it. 🇬🇭 Area-Wide Traffic Signal Control System & Accra Traffic Management Centre · Accra Another verified project from Accra.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “AccraMobile: Mapping the Trotro Network” — Accra, Ghana. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/accra-open-transit/ (last verified 2026-08-01). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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