Ecole des Sciences et techniques du Bâtiment et de la Route, Université Nationale des Sciences, Technologies, Ingénieries et Mathématique d’Abomey, Benin
Urban engineering or science of urban nets is designed to design, install and manage infrastructures and essential equipments to normal urban life. It is based on a fine knowledge of urban objects and practices. In a context of urban repair (marked by a predominance of evolutionary facilities), local investment management policy will have to be embedded in local realities. Based on this premise, the present study attempted (from the case of the road safety facilities of an urban peripheral area in the urban center and in full swing) to categorize the panoply of signaling equipments and detect failures that do not optimize their use. The pathologies thus identified are technical, social and institutional. It was therefore necessary to continue to reflect on the measures to reverse this heavy trend. A procedural authority has therefore been identified as the approach to be adopted to include technical measures for the design and exploitation of communal property in a coherent process of sustainability. Similarly, technical innovations are needed to standardize infrastructures and approach them with normality.