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  1. www.researchgate.net › publication › 337951485_TheThe Urban Traffic Congestion Problem In Benin City And The ...

    Dec 16, 2019 · The reason is that while road infrastructure follows an arithmetic progression and often fixed in developed cities, population and road usage patterns follow a geometric progression. In...

  2. www.internetgeography.net › topics › trafficTraffic Congestion in Lagos - Internet Geography

    • What Impact Does Traffic Congestion Have on People in Lagos?
    • What Efforts Have Been Made to Reduce Traffic Congestion?
    • How Could A Transport Master Plan Help Lagos?

    Lagos is one of the most congested cities in the world. 40 per cent of cars in Nigeria are registered in Lagos. Commuters spend at least three hours in traffic each day. Traffic congestion leads to many problems for the residents of Lagos. For example, the fatal accident rate in Lagos is 28 per 100,000 people. This is three times greater than in mo...

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    The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) was set up by the Lagos state government in 2003 to improve transport in the city. The Authority set up a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that runs from north-south from the suburbs to the CBD on Lagos Island. The system provides a dedicated land for buses. Over 200,000 people use the system e...

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    A new light railway scheme is being developed in Lagos. The first stage of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) opened in 2016 and runs from a west-east route into the CBD. The system carries seven times as many passengers as the BRT. There are plans to develop the network to incorporate seven further rail lines. This is part of a wider Strategic Tra...

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  4. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleProblems and Challenges Facing the Nigerian Transportation ...

    Jan 1, 2020 · The urban transport problem in Nigeria cities manifests in the form of poorly constructed and maintained urban road network and road complementary facilities as well as ineffective transport management. Onokala (2001) discussed urbanization and urban transportation problems in Nigeria cities.

    • Patience Chinyelu Onokala, Chidinma Joy Olajide
    • 2020

  5. businessday.ng › columnist › articleDriving Nigeria’s public transport system with modern ...

    May 12, 2020 · Examples of ITS benefits includes tracking high pedestrian areas, traffic patterns, railway stations, planning, scheduling bus times, enhance interoperability, create alerts of transport situations that enables swift capacity to share information among the different platforms and transport modes.

  6. www.technologyreview.com › 2014/11/18 › 249715Booming Lagos, Smart City | MIT Technology Review

    Nov 18, 2014 · An African mega-city bets on technology and its native entrepreneurs to meet the many challenges of its population boom. For Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s biggest city, any push to become a smart ...

  7. allafrica.com › stories › 202103310658Nigeria: Smart City Solutions and Nigeria's Urban Areas

    Smart-city technologies help cities to fight crime, reduce traffic congestions, prevent and treat chronic conditions through remote-monitoring, make commuting faster, deliver cleaner environments...

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  9. www.academia.edu › 3310595 › Assessment_of_trafficAssessment of traffic congestions in Akure, Nigeria. Using ...

    Thus, the result can be use to discourage parking on traffic corridor, a situation that is common in the city and noted for a long time to have been the major cause of traffic congestion. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION This paper examined traffic problems in Akure using a GIS application. A TIS was developed.