1. SCOPE AND PARAMETERS OF THE SURVEY
The study focused only on 1) Mode Choice and 2) Trip frequency because all
efforts to gather data on trip time and trip distance proved abortive.
Home-Work trip only accounted for 36 per cent of all trips while Non-home
related trips accounted for 25 per cent of all trips; and one-third of all trip
purposes were served by public transit mode.
Trip Purpose Matrix
There is no significant variation or difference in daily number of trips made
by the people with the use of ICT; this is because that the use of ICT may
not absolutely increase or decrease the amount of trips that take place but it
has great influence on when, where, and how to travel.
Trips for shopping and business are the most substituted trips, work and
business trips are the most complemented trips, and trips for shopping,
private and visitation are the most modified trips of the daily trips.
The general observation and respondents’ perception gave credence that
the general transportation system of Lagos is not satisfactory and the highly
transportation needs and desires of the people is the integrated transport
system that will reduce congestion, safe time and give room to safety.
Sources of financing transportation is identified to be majorly from public
source, that is, fiscal allocation from government, general tax collection, toll
collection, licensing and registration fees.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Transport is an essential key to movement of people, goods, information and
ideas; and to access land uses for various activities because without any
movement it is impossible to acquire or fulfil the daily needs. Consequent upon
this, understanding of traffic situation, travel demand and mobility behaviour of
people are the basic support for making transportation development strategies,
planning and policies.
Provision of affordable, convenience, conducive, effective, safe and physically
accessible public transport, giving priority to integrate collective modes of
transport with adequate carrying capacity and frequency that support basic
needs and the main traffic flow.
INTRODUCTION
The tremendous increase in population and urbanization of Lagos poses a lot of
challenges particularly urban transport system which is under great stress of
traffic flow. In order to ensure that transportation systems and services
adequately meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of Lagos, there
is need to understand the mobility behaviour of the people. Mobility behaviour
deals with who, when, where, why, how and how often we travel.
There is considerably variation in mobility decision, mode choice and
number of trips made across the socio-economic characteristics of the
people.
Available and use modes in the study area are walking, motorbike
(Okada), taxi-cab (Keke NAPEP), private car, public transit.
Public transit dominated the mode choice of people to various purpose of
activities but private car is the dominant mode choice in Ikeja and Ifako-
Ijaye LGAs, also socio-economic characteristics who are aged, full-time
workers, high income earners and high household size predominantly
adopted private car as their mode choice. There is average of one car per
household.
Regression analysis confirmed that the availability of different modes
cannot predict the trip frequency of the people.
x1 = Walking, x4 = Taxi-Cab x7 = Rail Transport
x2 = Bicycle x5 = Private Car x8 = Air Transport
x3 = Motorcycle x6 = Public Transit x9 = Water Transport
2.630 0.008 0.162 0.125 0.055 0.037 0.008
0.010 0.041 0.037
Home Work Business Shopping Others Total
Home - 134 46 18 46 244
Work 97 - 9 28 27 161
Business 46 7 - 7 16 76
Shopping 36 14 8 - 6 64
Others 63 12 9 11 - 95
Parameters
Total household survey 240
Share of person with trip (%) 98
Total trip recorded 640
Max. number of trip made per day 5
Average trip rate 2.7
ANALYSIS OF MOBILITY BEHAVIOUR IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
Research Problem
Objectives
The study used both primary and secondary types of data. Primary data were
collected from field work through questionnaire administration. 240 questionnaires
were distributed using stratified random sampling techniques. Data were
processed by SPSS and MS Excel, and analysis was done by descriptive and
inferential statistics. Based on the results, generalization, conclusion and
recommendations were made.
Research Aim and Objectives
Study Area Methodology
BRT
Public Transit
Rail
Okada Private Car
LAGBUS Taxi-Cab
Mix Traffic
The study was conducted in 8 LGAs:
Agege Kosofe
Alimosho Mushin
Ifako-Ijaye Oshodi-Isolo
Ikeja Shomolu
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Institute of Road and Transportation Planning
The Chair of Transport Planning and Traffic
Control Technology
Pfaffenwaldring 7, 70569 Stuttgart
Tel. +49(0)711 685-82482
www.isv.uni-stuttgart.de/vuv/
SURVEYING AND ANALYSING MOBILITY BEHAVIOUR IN LAGOS,
NIGERIA
Author
Tunde Mojeed, YISAU
[B.Tech (Hons) Urban and Regional Planning]
Supervisor
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Friedrich
For the Degree Award of
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in
Infrastructure Planning
January, 2016