The Effectiveness Of Intelligent Transport

The Effectiveness Of Intelligent Transport

Chapiter 1

Introduction

Background information for the study

The nation’s transportation sector is experiencing a high level of mobility and safety issues. Anyone who experiences a delay on Lagos streets can immediately feel the effects of traffic congestion. On the 9,100 available roads and expressways in Lagos, an estimated 8 million people commute to work daily using public transit (World Bank, 2009). With more than a million registered vehicles in 2011, there might be more than a million journeys made during the busiest times of the day; this number rises significantly around special occasions like Easter and Christmas, when visitors from other parts of the country arrive in greater numbers. According to a recent research, traffic congestion in American cities cost $78 billion in 2005, resulting in 4.2 billion hours of delay and 2.9 billion gallons of fuel lost. 43,443 people died on American highways in 2005.58 The number of trips made by public transportation systems in 2006 was 10.1 billion, the most in 49 years, and gains were seen during the first three quarters of 2007.59 It is anticipated that the amount of freight transported on American highways will rise from 11.5 billion tons in 2002 to 22.8 billion tons in 2035. Lagos commuters deal with the effects of traffic congestion every day. Adebiyi (2011) asserts that road users themselves are somewhat to blame for the congestion. Lagos drivers are notorious for their extreme impatience and poor adherence to traffic laws. In fact, refusal to move over for another driver has frequently resulted in traffic jams. Congestion has many different effects; some have a direct impact on drivers’ sense of wellbeing, such as time wasted waiting in traffic and alterations in driving behavior. Such actions could include insulting words or gestures, driving in an unsafe or threatening manner on purpose, or issuing threats. The use of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) offers a tried-and-true method for tackling the problems of ensuring safety and lowering traffic while accommodating the increase in freight traffic. Through the employment of cutting-edge communications, sensor, and information processing technologies, including a wide range of wireless and wireline communications-based information and electronics, ITS increases transportation safety and mobility and boosts productivity. These technologies increase productivity in the United States by reducing traffic when they are integrated into the infrastructure of the transportation system and into the vehicles themselves. Many services currently offered by infrastructure or vehicle-based ITS could benefit from improved communication between vehicles and the infrastructure with the help of vehicle infrastructure integration. The six main aim areas of the transportation system—safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, energy and environment, and customer satisfaction—can all be impacted by the adoption of ITS. The assessments covered in this paper use a wide range of performance indicators to evaluate how well ITS performs against each of these objectives. Changes in crash rates or other proxy indicators like vehicle speeds, traffic jams, or transgressions of traffic laws are used to gauge safety. Travel time or delay savings, travel time budget savings, and on-time performance have all been used to quantify mobility improvements. Efficiency studies show that better managed transportation infrastructure may handle increased demand by expanding their capacity or level of service within already-existing road networks or public transportation systems. Productivity gains are often quantified as cost savings to shippers, travelers, or transportation companies. Fuel savings and lower pollutant emissions are usually used to demonstrate benefits in the energy and environmental fields. Customer satisfaction research analyzes how well-received deployed ITS are among travelers, typically through questionnaires.

1.2 Statement of the problem:

Finding a balance between throughput, livability, safety, and sustainability is necessary for managing urban traffic. The difficulty of managing traffic will become more difficult as cities are predicted to grow in the next decades (leading to an increase in traffic demand). This is because there may not be enough area to build road networks. The task is made even more difficult by the fact that urban traffic is made up of a variety of various modes of transportation (pedestrians, bicycles, public transportation, and motorized vehicles). The researcher plans to explore whether intelligent transportation systems are effective in reducing the threat of traffic congestion and pollution in our city in light of the aforementioned difficulties.

1.3 The Study’s Objective

This study’s major goal is to determine how well intelligent transportation systems can reduce the dangers of traffic congestion and traffic jams. However, in order to help the study be completed, the researcher hopes to specifically accomplish the following goal:

i) To determine how an intelligent transportation system affects Nigeria’s transportation system’s efficiency.

ii) To determine whether Nigeria’s Intelligent Transportation System and Intelligent Transportation System are significantly related in any way.

iii) Determine the significance of educating the general public and significant stakeholders in the Nigerian transportation system about the necessity for ITS and the implementation of an intelligent transportation system in Nigeria.

iv) To propose a suggestion for resolving the identified issue.

1.4 Questions For Research

The researcher created the following research questions to help the study be finished:

i) Does the efficient operation of Nigeria’s transportation system benefit from intelligent transport systems?

ii) Does Nigeria’s Intelligent Transportation System have any important connections to the global intelligent transportation system?

iii) Does ITS adoption and implementation in Nigeria have any bearing on the main stakeholders in the country’s transportation system being educated?

1.5 Hypotheses For Research

The following research hypotheses were developed by the researcher to help with the completion of the study:

H0:Intelligent transportation systems in Nigeria have no positive impact on the efficient operation of the transportation sector.

H1: Intelligent transportation systems contribute to the efficient operation of Nigeria’s transportation system.

H02:The Nigerian Intelligent Transportation System and Intelligent Transportation System are not significantly related

H2: The Nigerian Intelligent Transportation System and the Intelligent Transportation System are significantly related.

1.6 The Study’s Significance

Because the study aims to investigate the importance of the benefit of adopting intelligent transportation systems in combating traffic and other transport hazards, it is anticipated that the findings will be of great importance to the federal ministry of transportation. The study will also be helpful to road users as it will inform them on the tremendous be

the enormous advantages of adopting intelligent transportation systems, the study will also be crucial for researchers planning to pursue research on a related topic because it will act as a starting point for additional research, and finally, the study will be crucial for the general public because it will add to the body of literature on the topic.

1.7 The study’s scope and limitations

The study’s focus is on the impact of intelligent transportation systems on the expansion of Nigeria’s transportation industry, although there were some constraints that constrained the study’s potential;

a) AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH MATERIAL: The researcher’s access to suitable research material limits the investigation.

b) TIME: Because the researcher must juggle the study with other academic obligations and exams, the time allotted for the investigation does not improve wider coverage.

c) Finances: The amount of money the researcher has available for the study is a significant constraint on the scope of the research because it must be used wisely to fund other academic pursuits.

1.8 Term Definition

a smart transportation system

An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is a cutting-edge application that, without actually being intelligent, aims to provide cutting-edge services relating to various modes of transportation and traffic management and empower users to use transportation networks in a safer, more organized, and “smarter” manner.

Transport

The movement of people, animals, and things from one place to another is referred to as transport. Air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space travel are all forms of transportation. Infrastructure, transportation, and operations make up the field.

Transportation System

A transport network, also known as a transportation network, is a spatial network realization that describes a structure that allows for the movement of people or goods by vehicle. Networks of streets and highways, railroads, pipes, aqueducts, and electricity lines are some examples.

1.9 The Study’s Plan

There are 5 chapters in the research report for this study. The first chapter includes an introduction to the study and is further divided into nine sections, including the study’s history, its presentation of the problem, its research questions, etc. The literature review in chapter two includes a theoretical, conceptual, and empirical framework. The research methodology is covered in detail in Chapter 3, which primarily focuses on the study’s design, method of data collecting, sample size, sampling strategy, method of data analysis, and decision rule. The presentation and analysis of study data are covered in the second-to-last chapter, chapter 4, and the research summary, conclusion, and recommendations are covered in the last chapter, chapter 5.