DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i06.005

Pages: 398–403

Mass transport service in North East Nigeria was established in the last 20 years with millions of passengers, tons of freight and lot of information being transported within and outside the region. The sole purpose of transportation is to overcome physical and political constraints with ease otherwise known as transportability. There have been numerous literatures on transport system, nothing so far is found in the literatures that explore and expose the transportability of North East Mass Transport System (NEMTS) in terms of passenger conveyance, freight and information delivery services the NEMTS renders. The aim of this research work is to identify and assess NEMTS users and the transportability of NEMTS in terms of inter and intra-regional transportation; examine the problems they faced, and determine the transportability of NEMTS. Questionnaire was administered to 1332 respondents and Focus Group Discussion was made with 6 managers to compliment the information so far collected. The demographic information captured the respondents’ age, education, marital status, and ownership of means of transportation, level of income and occupation of respondents. Another area of service the research looked at was transportation of freights and information. Research findings revealed that majority of passengers plying NEMTS are of youthful age and single, most of whom attended non-formal education system. It also revealed that most of the NEMTS clients are artisan workers and some are students with few of the respondents employed as civil servants. Of these respondents, a very negligible number owned personal means of transport. Along with passengers, this work looked at the transportability of freight and information. The research found that there is high transportability of the items when most passengers attested to the affordability, coverage of desired distance, free movement of good and information with ease.