Abstract
Transportation has been of immense benefits to the social, economic and political development of communities, however, it is sometimes characterised with negative impacts such as traffic congestions, delays, environmental pollutions and crashes. In this study, the level of service of selected major road intersections in Ibadan were investigated. Traffic volume of each intersection approach was conducted from 7am - 7pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, delay studies were carried out during the morning, afternoon and evening peak hours and level of service for each approach was determined from the average delay per vehicle. The traffic volume reveals that passenger cars are the predominant vehicles at all the approaches and the morning and afternoon peak hours occurred between 8 to 9am and 2 to 3pm, respectively. The level of service for all the approaches is B, indicating slight reduction in capacity of the intersections. Keywords: Transport, Traffic volume, Traffic delay, Traffic congestion and Road intersection DOI : 10.7176/JIEA/9-7-05 Publication date: December 31 st 2019
Highlights
The provision of transportation facilities for the movement of persons, goods and services is very germane for the socioeconomic development of any community (Dukiya and Ajiboye, 2011)
Efficient planning, functional design, operation, control and management of transportation networks should be a great concern of government at all levels if major cities in Nigeria, the populace and corporate business owners will enjoy economic and social prosperity
The challenge of traffic congestions are at alarming rate in many of Nigeria's major urban centres, they are becoming a great threat to free flow of traffic in these cities
Summary
The provision of transportation facilities for the movement of persons, goods and services is very germane for the socioeconomic development of any community (Dukiya and Ajiboye, 2011). The challenge of traffic congestions are at alarming rate in many of Nigeria's major urban centres, they are becoming a great threat to free flow of traffic in these cities. These problems stem from the inefficient use of road space and increase in the number of vehicles on our roads due to crave for personal mobility (Atomode, 2013). A variety of researchers have studied traffic congestion from different perspective : Atomode (2013) investigated traffic delay and possible causes at selected road intersections in Ilorin, Nigeria. 2. Methodology Traffic field studies were conducted at two major road intersections in Ibadan based the volume of vehicles and perceived delay observed during reconnaissance survey.
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