LOCATION ANALYSIS OF FILLING STATIONS IN KANO METROPOLIS, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorUBA, Murtala Mohammed
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-10T10:38:34Z
dc.date.available2015-11-10T10:38:34Z
dc.date.issued2015-02
dc.descriptionLOCATION ANALYSIS OF FILLING STATIONS IN KANO METROPOLIS, NIGERIA By Murtala Mohammed UBA M.Sc/Sci/8594/2011-2012 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN REMOTE SENSING AND GIS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY FACULTY OF SCIENCE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA FEBRUARY, 2015.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study analysed the location of filling stations in Kano Metropolis against the physical planning standards set by Department of Petroleum Resource (DPR) and Kano Urban Planning and Development Agency (KNUPDA).Namesand street addresses of the filling stations were obtained from the Department Petroleum Resource (DPR) Kano. Global positioning System Garmin 76X GPS was used to capture the locations of the filling stations. The Quickbird imagery, street map, and boundary map were obtained from the Kano State Ministry of Land and Physical planning and then imported to Arcmap environment of ArcGIS 10, integrated and georeferenced to the same coordinate system. The findings revealed that there are 214 filling stations located along the 43 roads in the study area, of which 69% are owned by independent marketers, 26% owned by Major Marketers and 5% owned by the NNPC. There is significant correlation between the number of filling stations and the road hierarchy. While Zaria, Maiduguri and Katsina roads (all major roads) have the highest number of filling stations, the access roads like Sabo Bakin Zuwo and Zungeru roads have highest densityof filling station per km. Petroleum Motor Sprit (PMS) is major products trade by the stations, the overall pattern of the location of the filling stationsin the area is clustered, and there is significant difference between the pattern and random pattern at both 95 and 99% level of significance. The major factors governing the location of filling stations are the traffic flow, exit site from the city and closeness to motorpark. Most of the filling stations satisfied the minimum requirement of 15 metres distance from the road (96%). Equally 98% of the filling stations met the minimum distance of 100 meter from the health care facilities. However many stations had not meet the criteria of 400 meter minimum distance to other stations where located on same road side and when not separated by any road or street. The research recommends that the regulatory agencies should take appropriate which ensure that filling stations operators comply with the standards.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7137
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectLOCATIONen_US
dc.subjectANALYSISen_US
dc.subjectFILLING STATIONSen_US
dc.subjectKANO METROPOLISen_US
dc.titleLOCATION ANALYSIS OF FILLING STATIONS IN KANO METROPOLIS, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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