1.1 Experimental Design: Time Study area.
The study was done in Uyo metropolis, the urban area of Akwa Ibom State capital territory, Nigeria. The expanding urban-rural fringe are not comprehensively addressed presently. Four (4) route zones out of the six (6) presently operating were plied. The other two route zones had certain un-cleared handicaps. One truck was assigned to each route zone per day. The process was to take a truck on a route zone to a municipal waste generating station, load off the solid waste into a container and haul it to a dumpsite; empty and hitch back an empty container to the generator location before moving to the next station to repeat the same set of component activities in the collection process. Thus, the task involves a repetitive set of activities of short or long duration with time losses in between them. These are to be measured and effects evaluated. For commonness purpose, timings for the first five trips were measured and used for time loss analysis. From here, projection for the number of trips per day was made and used for efficiency analysis. The initial five trips timing was replicated for 5 days to minimize or eliminate human error of visual observation of instrument dial.