🤖 AI-generated city profile, summarising the source-checked entries below — how this works
Casablanca is Morocco's economic capital and largest city, home to the country's main port, the Casablanca Stock Exchange and Casablanca Finance City, a business hub that anchors the city's positioning as a financial gateway to Africa. Its smart-city record is concentrated where the city itself acts: a mobility backbone run by the public operator Casa Transport, a digital-services portal built in-house, and a water network that is quietly one of the most instrumented in Africa. Much of what gets branded 'smart Casablanca' is either cluster marketing or a police-run camera grid, so the atlas scopes the city to the systems it actually delivers and operates.
The atlas documents 5 projects in Casablanca, the earliest dating to 2012: 5 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (4 entries) — and links its sources.
Start here
Three entries that show what Casablanca is actually doing.
Four lines and roughly 72 km, run for the city by RATP Dev. The data layer is a control room and a contactless card; signal priority and a live passenger feed traced to no primary source.
Roughly 4,000 acoustic sensors listen to more than 7,000 km of Casablanca water mains for leaks. Every performance figure is the operator's own, and in 2024 the concession passed to a public utility.
Residents file grievances with photos, anonymously if they prefer, and track them across 16 arrondissements. No usage or resolution figures have been published, so its reach is unmeasured.
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The shape of Casablanca
Computed from the 5 entries below — a profile, not a score.
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How Casablanca got smart
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All 5 projects in Casablanca
On a time axis, by the year each one started — 2012 to 2024. Pick a dot to read what it was.
Four lines and roughly 72 km, run for the city by RATP Dev. The data layer is a control room and a contactless card; signal priority and a live passenger feed traced to no primary source.
Plans and announced trajectories — not yet documented results.
The open questions are institutional, not technical. The 2024 return of water, power and sanitation to a public operator (SRM Casablanca-Settat) tests whether an instrumented network built under a private concession keeps being funded and run once the concession ends. The mobility network keeps extending, but the surveillance grid still operates without the oversight its own enabling law withholds, and the city's civic-reporting channel still publishes no numbers - so how much of Casablanca's smart-city story is measured, rather than announced, remains the thing to watch.
Deeper reads
Where Casablanca appears in the atlas's own analysis.
Three cities the atlas reads next to Casablanca — the reason first, then the entries it rests on. Chosen by hand from the Casablanca threads below, not counted out of them.
North Africa's closest pair: a transit card and a water network both modernised under foreign management and reported by the operator alone, and a camera estate run by the national police rather than by the city.
Two cities paying for infrastructure whose results only its operators report: a camera network the city financed and the police who run it grade, and a water data layer in the hands of a private concessionaire.
The same two municipal purchases and the same missing half: a police-run camera network the city paid for that nobody independent has assessed, beside a geotagged complaint app that closes its own tickets.
Every editorial link from Casablanca's entries into another city, strongest first. Each one is a statement about two projects, not about two cities — the three above are the ones the atlas is willing to make at city level.
🇧🇪 Brussels: FixMyStreet BrusselsMunicipal complaint channels; both prove a reporting channel exists without published resolution data - reported demand, not measured need.
🇲🇿 Maputo: SIGEM Municipal Management SystemBoth link separate municipal systems into one portal residents use — Maputo for land and tax, Casablanca for city services and complaints.
🇸🇳 Dakar: Dakar Bus Rapid Transit (electric BRT)Two African BRTs, opposite bets: Dakar went fully electric, Casablanca's busway runs diesel with smarts in signal priority and ticketing.
Official strategy and sources
Casa Transport SA (mobility) and Casablanca Prestations (the commune's digital-services SDL)The organization driving the city's smart-city work.
📎 Cite this city
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Casablanca, Morocco.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/casablanca/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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