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Statistical Analysis Of Road Accidents
[A CASE IN ENUGU STATE FROM 1993 TO 2000]
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In the world today,
transportation which is the conveyance of goods and passengers from one
phase to another or the movement of commuter and their goods, produce
and products, and/or they themselves from one location to another have
played an important role in the development process, thus, serving as
one of the aspects of developmental change indicators and structural
well-being of the society and government among other sectors or areas of
the world socio-economic development. It provides room not only for
transaction of business to take place, market possibility for our goods,
produce and products produced, but also makes it possible for such to
reach the find consumer(s).
For instance, in Costa Rica, before the
inter America – highway was constructed, driving beed cattle on the hoof
from grazing lands to San Jose often resulted in a 40 percent less of
weight, and imports were necessary to supply local needs. But with and
weather highway, it was possible to deliver truck-traider units of
cattle over night, and costs Rica become self-supporting in meet. Also
in Bolivia, the highway from cochabamba to santa cruz reduced the travel
time in the rainy season from several weeks to fifteen hours and
provided a link between the country’s food supplies and its people.
Until then the price of home-grown rice was 50 percent higher than the
imported rice because of the high cost of transport. Furthermore,
transportation as an integral part of national production and
distribution system calls for its development, improvement and better
network system as to necessitate or provide a means of servicing
domestic and international market.
This is of primary importance in
the early stages of economic development because it promotes an
accumulation of capital, which allows the economy to progress from the
subsistence level at which most production is consumed locally.
Therefore, transportation and other government programmes such as
education and health care, necessarily compete for public expenditures
particularly in the underdeveloped countries.
From the foregoing, the
developed nation are efficient and effective in transport business as a
result of their improvement and technological advancement over the
years.
Nigeria has one of the most modern and best development
transport systems – roil, road, air and in-land waterings which
transverse the length and breath of the country to link the industrial,
commercial, and agricultural centers, that is to say, transportation in
Nigeria is traditionally under four major mades namely;- road, rail,
water and air. However, in this study, the researcher zeros down to
road transport.
In Nigeria road network, roads are categorized into
three; the truck A roads which is the responsibility of the federal
Government, truck B roads which is the responsibility of the state
Government and the third category-truck C which is the responsibility of
the local Government. Whether truck A, truck B, and truck C roads,
these roads are used by the motorists, cyclists, pedestrians either to
convey their passengers, goods, produce, products or to reach, transact
and communicate with another n different destination. Road
transportation has not only been discovered as the cheapest means of
transportation but also provides door-to-door transport services and
delivery of goods.
But apart from road congestion which is symptom of
the availability of insufficient road space to satisfy, with but
difficulty, all demands made upon it, road accident is another
difficulty task in traffic management schemes and has been of much
concern to various governments of our timer hence, the concern of any
well-organised government is how to identify and minimize (if possible
curb) the high rate of accidents on our roads today.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This project is in compliance with one of the task, I have to shoulder in order to be awarded the Higher National Diploma Certificate in statistics department from Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, during my final year in the Polytechnic 2004/2005 session emphasizing on Statistical Analysis of Road Accident in Enugu from 1993 to 2000.Road accident has been of great social and economic concern. It has became a total topic for scientific investigation. The number of deaths on th ... Continue reading---
