TRANSIT REST AREA, ABUJA
TRANSIT REST AREA, ABUJA
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Date
2014-02-13
Authors
USMAN, IBRAHIM BALA
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Abstract
Among all the modern means of transportation in Nigeria, road transportation is
the most popular and cheaper. This is as a result of its easy accessibility to both urban
and rural centres in Nigeria. According to the Annual Abstracts of Statistics of the
Federal Office of Statistics (1997), "about 62 per cent of Nigerians travel by road
(domestic only) either by public or private transport." Other means of road transportation
include lorries, trailers, tankers, etc.
Road transportation in Nigeria has tremendous impact on our socio-economic way
of life. Despite its importance, adequate attention has not been given to the aspect of
road users facilities on our highways as found in many developed and some developing
countries.
One would expect that much attention shall be given to the users facilities along
with the road network in Nigeria to make it convenient to travellers. Unfortunately, this
has been neglected. Most of the existing roads lack users facilities and in areas where
attempts have been made to provide these facilities locally, they are inadequate and not
properly co-ordinated and organised.
One can hardly find a situation where all facilities required by travellers are
integrated together in a well-organised environment. This is probably why one finds our
major highways in a chaotic situation. Vehicles are parked on both sides of the roads
and people make indiscriminate use of spaces, including street hawking, thereby
constituting hazard to motorists on our highways. The exigencies of the problems faced by road users in Nigeria with respect to
support facilities on its highways dictates the purpose of this thesis work which is aimed
at encouraging the construction of parallel support facilities along with its highways by
integrating various users parallel facilities flowing together as a complex within our
highways to alleviate the sufferings of road users on our highways and reduce risks,
break monotony and boredom of driving long distance, and so on.
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Being a Thesis submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, in partial fulfillment for the award of
Master of Science Degree in Architecture
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA