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AI-Powered Routing Returns Millions of Hours to African Cities
Yango Group, has announced that its advanced AI-powered routing technologies saved African urban commuters almost 2 million hours in 2025. A global technology company focused on digitalising urban services, Yango has expansive presence across Africa.
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The gains contributed to a global total of over 5 million hours saved across more than 20 cities worldwide. This is equivalent to nearly 600 years of human time returned to communities, according to the company.
Major Time Savings Across African Cities
From West to Central and Southern Africa, Yango’s intelligent route optimisation is helping to tackle one of the continent’s most persistent urban challenges: traffic congestion in fast-growing cities.
- In Abidjan, commuters collectively saved more than 815,000 hours in 2025 — the highest absolute gain among African cities analysed.
- In Kinshasa, riders gained an average of nearly 6% time savings per trip, one of the strongest efficiency improvements globally.
- In Dakar, users saved close to 170,000 hours.
- In Yaoundé and Douala, riders recovered over an hour per year per user on average.
How AI Routing Delivers Measurable Impact
The findings are based on an analysis of millions of Yango Ride trips conducted in 2025. The study compared AI-optimised routes with static shortest-path routes that do not account for real-time traffic conditions.
Results show that dynamic routing powered by machine learning and live traffic data delivers measurable time savings at scale, reinforcing AI-driven mobility as a critical layer of modern urban infrastructure.
AI as Practical Urban Infrastructure
“In many African cities, time lost in traffic directly impacts productivity, family life, and economic opportunity,” said Adeniyi Adebayo, Chief Business Officer of Yango Group.
“What these results show is that AI is not abstract — it is practical infrastructure. By embedding intelligence into everyday mobility services, we can help cities operate more efficiently and return valuable time to people,” he added.
Inside Yango’s Intelligent Routing System
Yango’s routing system processes multiple data points in real time, including traffic flows, historical congestion patterns, road characteristics, traffic light cycles, and turn complexity. The platform evaluates multiple route options in milliseconds.
Its self-learning architecture continuously improves by comparing predicted and actual travel times, allowing the system to adapt to the unique mobility patterns of each city.
Sustainability Benefits Beyond Time Savings
Beyond reducing travel time, intelligent routing supports broader urban sustainability goals. By minimising idle time and optimising traffic distribution, Yango’s AI technology helps improve fuel efficiency, lower emissions, and reduce localised congestion — major challenges in fast-urbanising African markets.
Global Impact of AI-Driven Mobility
While African cities recorded significant gains, the cumulative global impact exceeded 5 million hours saved across more than 20 cities worldwide, including Lima and Guatemala City. The results highlight the scalability of AI-powered mobility solutions across diverse urban environments.
Yango’s Expanding Footprint
Yango operates in more than 35 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. It continues to develop technologies that transform complex algorithms into accessible tools, supporting smarter, more efficient and more human-centred cities.
