CHAPTER ONE
1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF
THE STUDY
Transportation is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. Life is movement. Transportation is an important activity in the life of any modern society, it involves the movement of people, goods and services on land, water and air: In commerce and industry, transportation is used to describe the broad range of activity concerned with the efficient movement of finished goods from the place of production to the consumer and source of supply to the beginning of production line. It has helped to promote specialization and the spread of information and ideas.
In Enugu state, the road is the only mode of transport by which all the local government areas in the state are linked. The popularity and widespread acceptance of vehicle has rapidly risen in recent years. Unfortunately, the rise of vehicle has been accompanied by increased levels of high risk behaviour and accidents on Nigerian roads. In Enugu urban the state government did not place time limit for which vehicles driver should operate. The prominent feature in this interaction process is the dominance of inter-rural flows in the total internodes flow. Available evidence distilled from these sources and the National transport co-ordination commissions (NTCC) 1979, survey of major road transporters indicate that the lion’s share of the agricultural and manufactured goods moved are concentrated in the major urban centre. For instance, yams which are produced in Benue state are brought down to Enugu urban and sold to traders from the rural areas in Enugu state. Therefore, inter-urban transportation of goods, passengers and information’s, by road mode of transport, is vital for the continuous functioning and integration of the various component administrative units that form the federation, or a national entity (Adetunji 1979).
Road transport has become the most ubiquitous mode of transport and is available to and make use of, by the greatest proportion of the people and covers the largest part of Nigeria’s land area (Adetunji A, Bolade). At the end of the third National Development plan (1980) about 100,000 kilometers of motorable roads were expected to be available. These carry more than ninety percent of Nigeria’s import and export freight traffic (Onakomaiya, 1978), which move at both inter-urban and inter-state levels. Available statistics on the 1974/75 Internal commodity flows in Nigeria indicated that about ninety percent of the national freight traffic involved in inter-city (comprising inter and intra-state) movements was carried by road (Bolade, 1981).
In Enugu state, the road is the only mode of transport by which all the local government areas in the state are linked. The popularity and widespread acceptance of vehicle has rapidly risen in recent years. Unfortunately, the rise of vehicle has been accompanied by increased levels of high risk behaviour and accidents on Nigerian roads. In Enugu urban the state government did not place time limit for which vehicles driver should operate. The prominent feature in this interaction process is the dominance of inter-rural flows in the total internodes flow. Available evidence distilled from these sources and the National transport co-ordination commissions (NTCC) 1979, survey of major road transporters indicate that the lion’s share of the agricultural and manufactured goods moved are concentrated in the major urban centre. For instance, yams which are produced in Benue state are brought down to Enugu urban and sold to traders from the rural areas in Enugu state. Therefore, inter-urban transportation of goods, passengers and information’s, by road mode of transport, is vital for the continuous functioning and integration of the various component administrative units that form the federation, or a national entity (Adetunji 1979).
Road transport has become the most ubiquitous mode of transport and is available to and make use of, by the greatest proportion of the people and covers the largest part of Nigeria’s land area (Adetunji A, Bolade). At the end of the third National Development plan (1980) about 100,000 kilometers of motorable roads were expected to be available. These carry more than ninety percent of Nigeria’s import and export freight traffic (Onakomaiya, 1978), which move at both inter-urban and inter-state levels. Available statistics on the 1974/75 Internal commodity flows in Nigeria indicated that about ninety percent of the national freight traffic involved in inter-city (comprising inter and intra-state) movements was carried by road (Bolade, 1981).
Some main elements of transport, such as road transport and sea transport, have been in use for several thousand years. Others such as railways transport and water transport, have only occurred recently, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Tom Rallis, 1977). Users of transport services are attracted to the mode of transport which best meets their needs depending on the types of work which they are engaged (Leslie Robinson, 1971).
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