CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1. Background To The Study

Urban transport services in Nigeria is inadequate both in quality and quantitative terms considering the rate of population growth and the economic condition of an average Nigerian on the affordability of transport  services  to  meet  his  or  her  travel  demands  over  the  past  four  decades.  The  Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)  of  the  middle  80’s  had  made  the  importation  of  new  automobile  vehicles relatively expensive to purchase for urban mobility in the country. Similarly, the price of motor spare parts  had  risen  astronomically  and  many  Nigerians  could  hardly  maintain  their  old  vehicles  which invariably compounded the mobility crises in Nigerian towns and cities. Incidentally most of urban trips in Nigeria are made by road, rail and water based mode and these accounted for about 95%, and the remaining 5% were mainly by walking (Oyesiku, 2001).

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