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TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF UGBOWO LAGOS ROAD IN OVIA NOTH EAST LGA, EDO STATE

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ABSTRACT

With the growing rate of ownership and usage of vehicles than the number of roads available for them, road congestion, accidents and strain leading to failure have and would continue to surface thus traffic engineers and planners need information about traffic. They need information to design and manage road and traffic system. They use the information for planning and designing traffic facilities, selecting geometric standards, economic analysis and determination of priorities. They use this to justify warrant of traffic control devices such as signs, traffic signals, pavement markings, school and pedestrian crossings. The also use this information to study the effectiveness of introduced schemes, diagnosing given situations and finding appropriate solutions, forecasting the effects of projected strategies, calibrating and validating traffic models. With all these said, the need for understanding the traffic characteristics of a roadway can never be understated. Transportation system is a dynamic system. Information about traffic must be regularly updated to keep pace with ever-changing transportation system. Data must be collected and analyzed systematically to get representative information. Traffic surveys are the means of obtaining information about traffic. This project aims at collecting, analyzing and interpreting data to be used for various traffic engineering purposes and amidst all the methods of traffic study, the manual method was the major method of data collection used in the project. Significant deterioration of speed bumps and lack of traffic signs was observed and this defeats their purpose of placement as they are meant to regulate the speed of road users. Our study revealed that the traffic conditions of Ugbowo-Lagos road is satisfactory but the results obtained from the spot speed study reveals that road users exceed the designed speed limit of the road by 5mph. Thus this project is important as to understanding road user and vehicular characteristics and how to better improve road usage and safety