Algiers Intelligent Traffic Management
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In 2017 the Algerian-Spanish joint venture MOBEAL was contracted to fit 500 Algiers intersections with adaptive, camera-linked traffic lights feeding a control centre at Kouba, on a 15 billion dinar envelope spread over three phases and 55 months. Only 22 junctions were ever wired, on a 7 km stretch between Belouizdad and Ruisseau, and no source names a date on which any of them began operating: the authorities refused to authorise the surveillance cameras and the fibre-optic links, and the Spanish partner left during the Covid-19 pandemic. By November 2024 the wilaya was describing a different, smaller scheme of 260 junctions.
what does this mean?
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No source reports a measured effect on traffic. By January 2020 everything built had consumed only about 10 per cent of the 6.9 billion dinar first phase: 22 junctions installed in the pilot zone, and of the 200 first-phase junctions 53 surveyed and fitted without ever being commissioned. A year later the acting transport minister told parliament the count was still 22 and the project had run into an unplanned delay.
🎓 Lesson
A pilot zone can stay a pilot zone, and the obstacle can be a permission rather than a machine: the authorities would not authorise the surveillance cameras or the fibre-optic links the system needed, and the Spanish partner left during the pandemic. The minister called the project a failure in January 2021, and when the wilaya returned to traffic signals in November 2024 it did so with a different, smaller plan.
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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: 2017–2021. 4 of 4 sources carry a publication date, from 20 March 2018 to 2 November 2024.
When the sources were published
- Algérie 360 · pressAlgerie360 — launch of the Algiers traffic-regulation and smart-signal project (20 Mar 2018)
- Algérie Eco · pressAlgérie Eco — Algiers traffic-regulation system: the project is at a standstill (30 Jan 2020)
- TSA — Tout Sur l'Algérie · pressTSA – Tout Sur l'Algérie — Chiali explains the failure of the 500-signal project (25 Jan 2021)
- Horizons · pressHorizons — a special plan to regulate traffic in the capital (2 Nov 2024)
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In 2017 the Algerian-Spanish joint venture MOBEAL was contracted to fit 500 Algiers intersections with adaptive, camera-linked traffic lights
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feeding a control centre at Kouba
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on a 15 billion dinar envelope spread over three phases and 55 months
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Only 22 junctions were ever wired, on a 7 km stretch between Belouizdad and Ruisseau
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the authorities refused to authorise the surveillance cameras and the fibre-optic links, and the Spanish partner left during the Covid-19 pandemic
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By November 2024 the wilaya was describing a different, smaller scheme of 260 junctions
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By January 2020 everything built had consumed only about 10 per cent of the 6.9 billion dinar first phase
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of the 200 first-phase junctions 53 surveyed and fitted without ever being commissioned
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A year later the acting transport minister told parliament the count was still 22 and the project had run into an unplanned delay
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the authorities would not authorise the surveillance cameras or the fibre-optic links the system needed, and the Spanish partner left during the pandemic
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The minister called the project a failure in January 2021
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when the wilaya returned to traffic signals in November 2024 it did so with a different, smaller plan
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- MOBEAL (EGCTU/ERMA + Indra + SICE joint venture)
- Actor types
- city-government, private
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- Not recorded
- Cost
- Not recorded
- Ownership
- Not recorded
- Decision rights
- Not recorded
- Exit conditions
- Not recorded
4 source dossiers
Algerie360 — launch of the Algiers traffic-regulation and smart-signal project (20 Mar 2018)
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src-ed7a07e2a3069d7a- Publisher
- Name not classified · algerie360.com
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2018-03-20
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-26
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-26
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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Report on the launch of works: the wali describes 200 of 500 junctions in the first phase, data from surveillance cameras and magnetic loops feeding a dedicated centre at Kouba.
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TSA – Tout Sur l'Algérie — Chiali explains the failure of the 500-signal project (25 Jan 2021)
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src-b3d86f72a4d97dfd- Publisher
- Name not classified · tsa-algerie.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2021-01-25
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-26
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- 2026-08-26
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Acting transport minister Farouk Chiali tells parliament that only 22 junctions were equipped, blames the refusal to authorise the surveillance cameras and the fibre optics plus the Spanish partner's departure during the Covid-19 pandemic, and dates the 15 billion dinar envelope to the 2017 launch.
Algérie Eco — Algiers traffic-regulation system: the project is at a standstill (30 Jan 2020)
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src-59d3a64c2ff51482- Publisher
- Name not classified · algerie-eco.com
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2020-01-30
- Updated
- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-26
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-26
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Open the recorded source note
Interview with Salhi Ayach of the Algiers wilaya transport directorate: 22 junctions installed on a 7 km stretch between Belouizdad and Ruisseau, work halted by fibre-optic problems and by the undefined rules for operating the signal cameras, 53 of the 200 first-phase junctions surveyed and fitted without being commissioned, and only about 10 per cent of the 6.9 billion dinar first-phase budget consumed. Replaces the APS report of the same facts, whose URL now returns 404.
Horizons — a special plan to regulate traffic in the capital (2 Nov 2024)
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src-470be1b231576d41- Publisher
- Name not classified · horizons.dz
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2024-11-02
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- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-26
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-26
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- No local capture recorded
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Open the recorded source note
Later, smaller scheme: 260 junctions in the wilaya of Algiers to receive signals, with two pilot zones (Place du 1er Mai and Grande Poste) finished and Square Port Saïd about 90 per cent complete. Does not mention MOBEAL or a resumption of the 2017 contract.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Algiers Intelligent Traffic Management” — Algiers, Algeria. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/algiers-smart-traffic/ (last verified 2026-08-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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