<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The greatest challenge of physically-challenged individuals is mobility, thereby making access to public transportation essential to independent living for these individuals. The study was conducted in Oyo State. Multistage sampling method comprising purposive and simple random sampling was used to select a sample size of 226 students from three special education centres in the state. Findings revealed that factors such as operators’ impatience/discrimination, waiting time and lack of assistance were major problems that affects accessibility to IPTs. Furthermore, results showed that difficulties experienced by the physically-challenged individuals differ significantly by the nature of disability as evidenced by a chi-square value of 37.218, p&lt;0.05. It was therefore recommended that government should listen more to these transport disadvantaged people living with disabilities and integrate their concerns/suggestions in the design, implementation and monitoring of transport infrastructure and services as well as providing sustainable transport means to their transport challenges.</p></abstract>

The greatest challenge of physically-challenged individuals is mobility, thereby making access to public transportation essential to independent living for these individuals. The study was conducted in Oyo State. Multistage sampling method comprising purposive and simple random sampling was used to select a sample size of 226 students from three special education centres in the state. Findings revealed that factors such as operators’ impatience/discrimination, waiting time and lack of assistance were major problems that affects accessibility to IPTs. Furthermore, results showed that difficulties experienced by the physically-challenged individuals differ significantly by the nature of disability as evidenced by a chi-square value of 37.218, p<0.05. It was therefore recommended that government should listen more to these transport disadvantaged people living with disabilities and integrate their concerns/suggestions in the design, implementation and monitoring of transport infrastructure and services as well as providing sustainable transport means to their transport challenges.

Problems Affecting the Accessibility of Physically-Challenged Individuals to Intermediate Public Transport Services in Oyo State, Nigeria

Department of Transport Management Faculty of Management Sciences

Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Global Challenges

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The greatest challenge of physically-challenged individuals is mobility, thereby making access to public transportation essential to independent living for...

Problems Affecting the Accessibility of Physically-Challenged Individuals to Intermediate Public Transport Services in Oyo State, Nigeria

Published Online: Feb 20, 2020

Page range: 114 - 120

Received: Jun 30, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jlst-2020-0008

Keywords
Accessibility, IPTs, Transport Disadvantaged, Physically-challenged

© 2020 Julius Ajayi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Problems Affecting the Accessibility of Physically-Challenged Individuals to Intermediate Public Transport Services in Oyo State, Nigeria

Published Online: Feb 20, 2020

Page range: 114 - 120

Received: Jun 30, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jlst-2020-0008

KeywordsAccessibility, IPTs, Transport Disadvantaged, Physically-challenged

© 2020 Julius Ajayi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Accessibility, IPTs, Transport Disadvantaged, Physically-challenged