INLAND WATER PORT HEADQUARTERS LOKOJA

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2012
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Samuel, OKPE Odumu
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all. - 6 - Abstract. Conscious of the importance of inland waterways navigation and transport, the federal government of Nigeria has continually made efforts to ensure navigability along the Niger and Benue rivers since 1954. Conversant with the importance of traffic in ports and the general circulation problems that arise in facilities with multiple and complex circulation systems the research shall focus on exploration of circulation styles in ports. In the light of this task, the research work aims at finding out the problem of traffic flow pattern in ports through constructive assessment of the various planning configuration in ports thus proffering a resultant planning system or configuration if prompted by the research findings. To achieve this research goal, various studies are intended ranging from studies on primary sources of data to secondary sources of data and shall be further reinforced by conditional surveys of existing ports. The proposed inland waterways port lokoja shall constitute the forum for the architectural representation of the research which aspires to differ from the pristine styles of planning in a bid to establish better efficiency in planning not only for ports but for all facilities that integrate a complex traffic system. At the end of the research, this work shall establish various planning forms and redefine a new course in port planning, through a decentralized facility that segregates the various activity zones and traffic types. Knowledge that port facilities are principally engineering tasks is not new, thus the research shall only be limited to the architectural content of ports of which planning forms a substantial part.
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DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA - NIGERIA.
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INLAND,, WATER,, PORT,, HEADQUARTERS,, LOKOJA,, Exploring,, alternative,, circulation,, pattern,, ports.
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