Rail infrastructure
Maritime ports
TSD-PRIME
TSD-PRIME: Transport Systems Database for Planning, Resilience, Investment, Mobility & Efficiency
Builds a digital transport systems database for planning, resilience, investment, mobility and efficiency of rail and shipping infrastructure in…
Project ID: TRiP 3
Lead: University of Oxford
Partners: FUT Minna, KNUST, UCT, University of Birmingham, Heriot-Watt University
Workstream: WS1: Shipping & rail · WS2: Efficiency · WS3: Digitalisation
At a glance
Region Africa
Duration May 2026 – March 2027
Africa-wide collaboration on rail and ports
The Transport Systems Database (TSD)
A geospatial interface to explore the data
How can new geospatial datasets, especially in data-scarce places, reveal the performance, accessibility and sustainability of transport systems?
Research activities
New open geospatial transport datasets
New release of the AfTS database
Geospatial visualisation interface
Freight and passenger flow modelling method
Planned research outputs
Policy brief & 2 peer-reviewed publications
New AfTS database version
Training, blogs & workshop
Agenda-setting report
Relevance & uptake
Advice to planners and governments in Africa · ambition for use in MDB investment decisions
Implemented by
University of Oxford
Meet us at
Africa Transport Forum