Samson Babatunde Osoba (2012) Appraisal of Parking Problems and Traffic Management Measures in Central Business District in Lagos, Nigeria
Transport problems are very common in the Central Business District of Nigeria Cities as a result of the growing concentration of population, rapid urbanization and economic activities of certain point of the world. Edward Ulman observed that transport is applied to move people, goods or service in order to enable two place to interact in which there must be a specific demand and supply. The attended cost and dependability of transport service and infrastructures have enabled an increasing number of people to seek economic, social and education opportunities that urban areas ideally provided. But contrarily, Central Business District metropolitan cities have grown to the point where threaten to strangle the transportation that made them possible. In view of the above, research work examine, the problem associated with Parking and traffic Management problem within Ikeja Local Government Area Central Business District. The method used for data collection were mainly questionnaire administration; secondary data extracted from documented information relevant to the research work; formal and informal interview and data analysis, technique and interpretation. Relevant literatures on the research topic were reviewed.
Findings in this research work revealed that parking problems and Traffic Management which leads to time delays and traffic congestion are as a result of inadequate parking space, traffic signs/signals, human factor indiscipline act and development of illegal stall at car park.
Recommendation was made for Parking Management, Parking design standard, parking control; traffic management for both vehicular and pedestrian, Land-use and Land development; enforcement of edict and bye-laws by statutory agencies.
David Walker and Guy Davies (2012) 2011 Community Satisfaction Survey ,
Overall satisfaction with the City of Sydney was quite high. In total 82% of all respondents indicated that they were ‘extremely’, ‘very’ or ‘quite’ satisfied, and only 11% indicating any level of dissatisfaction. This compares extremely well with satisfaction rating measured by Woolcott Research for other NSW Councils (which have ranged from a low of 65% to a high of 89%). It follows that the satisfaction levels expressed in relation to the individual service areas were also quite high. The highest overall satisfaction rating were measured in relation to parks and libraries (amongst the users of each) – with almost nine in ten users expressing satisfaction with these facilities, and only around 5% expressing any dissatisfaction (as detailed in the chart below). Interestingly, it can be seen that the aspects with the highest performance ratings tend to be those only rated by users (or those aware) of the service/facility – that is, not the full sample City of Sydney – 2011 Community Satisfaction Sur vey w o o l c o t t r e s e a r c h J a n u a r y 2 0 1 2 p a g e 8 base. The exception to this can be seen in relation to waste and household cleanup services – where all respondents were presented with this questions, and a high satisfaction score (76%) resulted.