Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca

Programme Overview

Rapid urbanisation across intermediate municipalities requires rigorous approaches to transport planning and traffic operations. Secondary cities frequently encounter escalating congestion, unregulated informal transport, and heightened collision risks along mixed-use corridors. This course equips transport practitioners with technical capabilities in geometric intersection design, corridor traffic management, and transport network planning. Delivered in Casablanca, the programme draws direct operational comparisons between Moroccan municipal mobility frameworks and the practical development challenges faced across secondary urban centres.

Participants examine established international standards for urban street design, road safety engineering, and transit operations tailored specifically to resource-constrained municipal environments. The curriculum addresses the functional classification of urban roads, roundabout design, signal timing calculations, and public transport terminal layouts. Practical exercises focus on resolving friction between through traffic, public transport vehicles, freight distribution, and vulnerable road users, ensuring that municipal infrastructure accommodates diverse transport modes safely and efficiently.

Through analytical exercises, field assessments, and applied case studies, attendees develop actionable skills to plan, implement, and monitor municipal traffic schemes. The course covers road safety audit procedures, public transport service planning, and pedestrian facility design aligned with international development bank requirements. By integrating engineering principles with municipal transport policy, delegates learn to design resilient, context-appropriate mobility interventions that support urban economic functionality and safeguard public transit access.

Intermediate municipalities across West Africa are experiencing rapid demographic growth that outpaces the development of local road infrastructure and organised public transport. National authorities and municipal councils are currently rolling out major urban infrastructure packages funded through international development partners under initiatives such as the Secondary Cities Urban Mobility and Development Project. To ensure capital investments achieve lasting economic and social returns, project implementation units, municipal technical directorates, and transport ministries require immediate capacity to execute detailed traffic circulation schemes, design formal transport terminals, and enforce road safety engineering standards before unmanaged motorisation creates systemic gridlock.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Casablanca, Morocco, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Functional urban street classification and geometric design controls for intermediate cities
• Traffic data collection methodologies: screenline counts, origin-destination surveys, and turning movement counts
• Circulation planning principles: one-way street networks, turning restrictions, and through-traffic bypasses
• Freight logistics management, kerbside loading regulations, and urban delivery access controls
• Field assessment of secondary arterial traffic management along mixed commercial corridors in Casablanca
• Priority intersection design: sight distances, channelisation islands, and vehicle turning swept paths
• Modern roundabout design: entry geometry, deflection, capacity estimation, and safety performance
• Traffic signal design: phasing strategies, cycle length calculations, and pedestrian clearance intervals
• Fraud risk assessment and fraud risk registers
• Design and testing of internal controls
• The Three Lines model and the role of oversight
• Audit planning, evidence and documentation

It is designed for municipal urban engineers responsible for municipal roads and infrastructure design, transport ministry planners managing national urban mobility strategies, project implementation unit engineers delivering multilateral development bank transport portfolios and others who want practical, current skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

The Growing Importance of Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca

Public bodies and donor-financed projects are expected to show that funds are used for their intended purpose. Auditors, oversight bodies and financiers increasingly look beyond the financial statements to the controls, records and behaviours behind them.

Fraud and control weaknesses rarely come from one failure. They grow where roles are unclear, records are incomplete and warning signs are not followed up. Teams that understand how fraud happens, and how controls stop it, protect both their institution and the people it serves.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design controls that are proportionate and testable
• Gather and document reliable audit evidence
• Recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly
• Turn findings into practical, agreed actions

Strong fraud, audit and internal control systems help organisations:

• Reduce losses and ineligible expenditure
• Pass external audits with fewer findings
• Strengthen trust with financiers and citizens
• Respond to allegations in a fair and documented way

This Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Municipal urban engineers responsible for municipal roads and infrastructure design
• Transport ministry planners managing national urban mobility strategies
• Project implementation unit engineers delivering multilateral development bank transport portfolios
• Municipal technical directors overseeing traffic circulation and parking regulations
• Public works engineers supervising secondary city road rehabilitation programmes
• Urban transit authority officers designing bus and minibus route networks
• Traffic police technical advisors involved in intersection management and enforcement planning
• Road safety auditors evaluating secondary city infrastructure schemes
• Urban spatial planners coordinating land-use integration with transport corridors
• Internal auditors and audit managers
• Finance managers and accountants
• Compliance and risk officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training, participants will be able to:

• Apply geometric design standards to secondary city intersections and urban corridors in accordance with international engineering manuals
• Develop traffic circulation and one-way network management plans for dense municipal commercial districts
• Calculate capacity, level of service, and signal timings for critical municipal intersections using empirical methods
• Design operational facilities and layout plans for public transport interchanges, minibus terminals, and intermediate boarding stops
• Conduct road safety audits and geometric deficiency assessments across secondary city road networks
• Structure public transit route networks and service schedules tailored to intermediate urban demand patterns
• Formulate targeted pedestrian and non-motorised transport infrastructure plans that integrate safely with motorized traffic
• Explain how and why fraud happens, using recognised fraud risk models
• Carry out a fraud and control risk assessment for a real process
• Map controls to risks using the Three Lines model

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training Methodology

The training combines technical lectures, applied design workshops, and practical field inspections across the Casablanca urban area. Delegates examine real engineering drawings, calculate traffic capacities using standardised formulas, and review authentic project case studies from secondary cities. Daily collaborative working sessions require participants to address typical urban mobility constraints using actual network data. Peer review sessions and technical debriefs consolidate learning, ensuring that engineers and planners can immediately adapt and deploy standard engineering tools within their home municipal administrations.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Technical visits to institutions and sites
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Technical Visits and Site Programme

The programme includes visits to institutions, projects or sites in and around Casablanca where participants see current practice at first hand and meet the professionals responsible. Visits are confirmed with the host organisations before the programme and may change for operational reasons.

• Briefings by host institutions on their approach and results
• Guided site visits with time for questions
• Structured observation notes for each visit
• Group debrief linking what was seen to participants' own institutions

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training, participants will be able to:

• Produce compliant geometric intersection and roundabout designs that reduce urban conflict points
• Formulate municipal traffic circulation schemes that alleviate commercial centre congestion
• Execute road safety audits on intermediate city urban road infrastructure according to international frameworks
• Design functional, safe, and efficient public transport terminal layouts and passenger boarding areas
• Specify appropriate traffic calming and non-motorised transport infrastructure to protect vulnerable users
• Prepare robust traffic management and mobility investment proposals aligned with international donor requirements
• Assess fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design and test proportionate controls

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Fraud and corruption risk management
• Internal control frameworks
• Audit and oversight arrangements
• Follow-up of audit findings
• Integrity and reporting channels

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk registers and control maps
• Audit planning and testing
• Evidence and documentation
• Reporting to management and boards
• Prevention of ineligible expenditure

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply fraud, audit and internal control within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in fraud, audit and internal control increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on fraud, audit and internal control. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to fraud, audit and internal control that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Casablanca, Morocco brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how fraud, audit and internal control is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Morocco

Training programmes and study tours in Casablanca suit government officials, project teams and professionals focusing on international trade, maritime transport, banking and regional economic development.

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Readiness Assessment
• Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca Training Manual
• Fraud Risk Register Template
• Control Mapping Matrix
• Audit Evidence Checklist
• Findings and Follow-up Tracker
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Fraud Risk Self-Assessment Guide
• Control Testing Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Urban Road Hierarchies and Traffic Circulation Planning), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design controls that are proportionate and testable?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Intersection Geometry, Roundabouts, and Signal Control), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions gather and document reliable audit evidence?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Public Transit Network Routing, Terminals, and Paratransit Integration), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Road Safety Audits and Vulnerable Road User Infrastructure), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions turn findings into practical, agreed actions?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Technical Visits, International Practice & Institutional Action Planning), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Secondary City Traffic Engineering and Public Transit Planning in Casablanca programme take place?

It runs from 20 Sep 2027 to 24 Sep 2027, in Casablanca, Morocco. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for municipal urban engineers responsible for municipal roads and infrastructure design, transport ministry planners managing national urban mobility strategies, project implementation unit engineers delivering multilateral development bank transport portfolios, municipal technical directors overseeing traffic circulation and parking regulations, and others who want practical skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in fraud, audit and internal control?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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