Ghana is expanding international trunk roads and facilitating traffic with the goal of becoming a transportation hub for the West African region. In Ghana, road traffic accounts for about 95% of total transportation volume, and road expansion and extension are necessary to cope with the increase in logistics volume due to recent economic growth. In particular, the Greater Accra Region, which includes the capital Accra and the port city of Tema, has 16.3 percent of the country’s population living on 1.4 percent of its land area, and the number of vehicles registered in the region accounts for 65 percent of the total number of vehicles registered nationwide, making it a major traffic center. The Tema Crossing is the intersection of two international highways, the Lagos-Abidjan Corridor, a key corridor for the Economic Community of West African States, and the Eastern Corridor, which leads to the border of Burkina Faso, a landlocked country, as well as a five-way intersection connecting national roads to the capital Accra. This causes constant congestion due to the influx of traffic to and from the capital Accra and the country’s largest port of Tema, creating a bottleneck for road traffic and long-distance logistics in the metropolitan area. This cooperation will facilitate traffic by implementing a multi-level Tema Intersection within Tema City, and will contribute to improving transportation convenience and logistics to and from Ghana’s main economic zone and landlocked countries.
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