ABSTRACT This study calibrates an intercity travel demand model which uses the principal structural variables that have been identified in the literature. It uses a robust econometric method which has been little applied in the sphere of land transport in Nigeria. This research develops an urban public travel demand model for 19 directional O-D city-pair network originating from Owerri Urban. Using revealed preference data from the period of 2014 to 2016 which was filtered into 207 observat...
ABSTRACT This research assessed the Impact of Road Transport Infrastructure Development in Port Harcourt. It also examined critically, the importance of quality road infrastructure in Port Harcourt and its relative impact on the Nigerian economic development. Relevant literatures on road infrastructure development and its impact on Rivers State were reviewed. A time-series data (2004 - 2016) on road infrastructure quality index (RIQI), GDP per capita, cost of cargo haulage and volume of cargo...
ABSTRACT This study investigates airlines level of service to domestic passengers in Nigeria using process stages with a number of service quality attributes each. These attributes represent points where the passenger experience varying kind of services. Data were collected from passengers waiting for their flights using a well-structured questionnaire on a five-point likert scale regarding passenger's expectations and perception of service offer. The data was encoded into Microsoft excel and...
ABSTRACT The study assesses the level of cabotage administration in relation to cabotage operation in Nigeria since its inception. To properly evaluate the cabotage operation in Nigeria, it is important to state the four cardinal reasons federal government introduced cabotage administration. The four cardinal points are: cabotage vessels must be wholly owned by Nigerians, cabotage vessels must be manned by Nigerians, cabotage vessel must be registered in Nigeria and cabotage vessels must...
ABSTRACT This study sought to optimize the cost of distribution system of consumer goods in Nigeria with special interest in Seven-Up Bottling Company PLC, Aba Abia State products from their five (5) depots to sixteen (16) wholesale dealers. Sources of distribution were identified as the depots, while destinations or markets were identified as wholesale dealers with a view to determining the shortest route that minimized the cost of transportation from the depots to the wholesale dealers. Th...
ABSTRACT The study carried out the econometric analysis of the effect of oil theft on tanker shipping in Nigeria.The specific objectives of this study were to examine the relationship between crude oil export trade, refined petroleum import trade and maritime GDP in Nigeria. To achieve these objectives, secondary data were sourced from CBN statistical bulletin, National bureau for statistics (NBS) and Nigerian National Petroleum cooperation (NNPC) .The data collected was subjected to economet...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the productivity and efficiency of airports in Nigeria employing the method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).Two variants of DEA models were estimated and their outputs compared in order to enhance the robustness of the study. These models include the one based on Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) to characterise the input-output combinations and that based on Variable Returns to Scale (VRS). It is sometimes argued that DEA models generally tend to overestimate e...
ABSTRACT This study shows the effect of changes in GDP, population, foreign trade and seaport access corridors of ECOWAS member countries, especially the littoral States, on the growth of freight volumes of their respective economies. The primary aim of the research is to develop a short sea shipping model for the ECOWAS sub-region, with the objective of reducing the cost per transported unit within the sub-region and predicting the growth of short sea shipping freight in ECOWAS economies. ...
ABSTRACT In this research work, the researcher researched on level of manpower planning i.e. if there is adequate manpower planning in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. And the objective of the research work is to know the cause of frequent retrenchment/sack of FAAN workers. As a guide to this study, two propositions/hypothesis were drawn on which the researcher focuses his research work. In the course of the study some related literatures were also reviewed based on this propositio...
This research assessed the Impact of Road Transport Infrastructure Development in Port Harcourt. It also examined critically, the importance of quality road infrastructure in Port Harcourt and its relative impact on the Nigerian economic development. Relevant literatures on road infrastructure development and its impact on Rivers State were reviewed. A time-series data (2004 - 2016) on road infrastructure quality index (RIQI), GDP per capita, cost of cargo haulage and volume of cargo, s...
ABSTRACT This study is designed to examine the cargo traffic from Nigerian seaports, using the Calabar and Port Harcourt port complexes as case study. The objective being to identify the function for assessing cargo movement from the aforementioned seaports to different towns in the country. This culminated in a model depicting the functional relationship which exists between the variables used in the study. A chronological review of related studies by different scholars was carried out to ...
This study investigates airlines level of service to domestic passengers in Nigeria using process stages with a number of service quality attributes each. These attributes represent points where the passenger experience varying kind of services. Data were collected from passengers waiting for their flights using a well-structured questionnaire on a five-point likert scale regarding passenger's expectations and perception of service offer. The data was encoded into Microsoft excel and su...
ABSTRACT Over the years, there have been persistent and consistent issues bordering on security in the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. As an International airport as well as the gateway into our Country, it is expected to measure up to international standards in facilities, personnel, services, security, safety etc but unfortunately most of these areas are atimes neglected and consequently fall below acceptable international standards. This research has been designed...
ABSTRACT Emergency Plan and Response Management is one of the most important determinants which affect global competitiveness of the aviation industry. The study examined Nigerian airlines’ emergency planning and response management services, including seven dimensions of services defined by Gronroos t-test model with 95 percent confidence. Satisfaction of airlines customers was measured and we observed that passengers were not satisfied within 7 Dimensions of Gronroos service quality M...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the contributions of the concessionaires in the efficiency of Apapa port, Lagos.The paper x-rays the performances of the Apapa at two points in time, as pre - concession era, from 2000-2005 and2006 – 2012 as post concession era.The research identified the problems that have bedeviled the ports of Nigeria before the concession as corruptive tendencies, high tariffs, congestion, long waiting time for vessels berth, vessels delay resulting to low time around...