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

Abstract

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.