Trip patterns in Akure, Nigeria: A land-use analytical approach

Abstract

Data on trips in land use parcels of Akure, a developing capital city in Nigeria, were collected and analyzed. Distance of each land use area from the central business district (CBD) was found to have played a significant role in trip attraction to it, while residential density was a major determinant of trip generation. Average numbers of daily work trips generated per capita ranged between 0.97 and 2.0, which compares with 0.8 to 2 specified in literature for developing cities. Total daily trips per capita for Akure-Nigeria (2.56) is higher than that of Mumbai-India (1.81), Chennai-India (2.08), and Harare-Zimbabwe(2.19). Availability, convenience, cost and promptness were found to be the major determinants of modal choice in the study area.