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Regional Assessment of Public Transport Operations in Nigerian Cities: The Case of Lagos Island

International Journal of Developing Societies

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Title Regional Assessment of Public Transport Operations in Nigerian Cities: The Case of Lagos Island
 
Creator O, Basorun J
O, Rotowa O
 
Subject Urban planning, Public transport, Developing countries
region, public, transport, operations, Lagos Island, Nigerian cities, developing countries
 
Description There is, in many cities of developing countries, a major challenge of adjusting the existing system of mobility to the evolving transport needs of the people. The situation in metropolitan Lagos provides a template of the circumstance in most of these city regions. This paper, therefore investigates specifically the public transport operations in Lagos Island sub-region of Lagos State to ascertain the level of performance.  The study adopts simple descriptive statistics such as frequency counts and percentages as well as a pair-wise association between the level of service of the private sector in public transport system and patronage by commuters through the use of the Pearson’s Correlation test. Result indicates that the role of the private sector in the public transport services associates highly (0.95) with patronage. As a vibrant sector of the transport system, it represents a major intervention area for a more effective transport operation in the city. Policy measures are recommended based on the research findings.
 
Publisher World Scholars
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2012-06-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://wscholars.com/index.php/ijds/article/view/90
10.11634/21681783150490
 
Source International Journal of Developing Societies; Vol 1, No 2 (2012); 82-87
2168-1791
2168-1783
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://wscholars.com/index.php/ijds/article/view/90/48