TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM IN MULTI-CAMPUS IN HIGHER INSTITUTION OF LEARNING AND THEIR POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS, A CASE STUDY OF OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND STUDY
Olabisi Onabanjo University (formerly called Ogun State University) operates a multi-campus system in which different colleges are located in various cities in Ogun state. The issue of transportation has been a major problem faced by the students of Olabisi Onabanjo University.
Transportation and property are important in physical and economic development of towns and cities all over the world. Property and land values tend to increase in areas with expanding transportation networks, and increase less rapidly in areas without such improvements. Rapid and continued rise in housing and land prices are expected in cities with transportation improvements and rapid economic and population growth (Goldberg, 1970).
Transportation is no doubt an indispensable catalyst for activating and stimulating the tempo of economic, social, political and strategic development in any society. Thus, effective and efficient functioning of urban centers depends on the provision of basic infrastructures one of the most important being transport. This implies that transport infrastructure has to be rationally developed to ensure that movement of people and goods takes place speedily, economically, safely, comfortably and in an environmentally-friendly manner (Sumaila, 2012).
As compliments, there must also be strategic transport infrastructural development to enable all available transport modes to be properly harnessed, stream-lined and integrated for socio-economic and defense purposes (Gbujie, 2003). But whether transport infrastructure is rationally or strategically developed, the benefits could only be optimized if it promotes a sustainable transport system that guarantees safe, reliable, efficient and environmentally–friendly movement of people and goods. This is practically important for new cities like Abuja. If they must overcome the congestion monster that bedevils urban centers globally i.e. congestions of people, houses and traffic (Ogunsanya, 1995). These problems constituted the nation’s experience in Lagos to the extent that their magnitude affected the national psyche. Consequently, in 1975, the Federal Government of Nigeria decided to relocate the federal capital to Abuja. It was expected that the relocation exercise would eliminate all the problems associated with transportation in Lagos. But the development of the capital territory in the last thirty years has created its own transportation challenges which require robust management strategies to handle. So this study focuses on the transportation problem in multi-campus in higher institution of learning and their possible solutions, using Olabisi Onabanjo University as a case study.
