IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bjc/journl/v11y2024i2p423-435.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Road Pavement and Implication on the Environment in North Central Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Dr. Omolola Madoh GEGELESO

    (Department of Transport Management, Faculty management Sciences Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, P.M.B. 4000, Ogbomoso, Oyo State.)

  • Okikiola Oluwabukunmi BELLO

    (Department of Transport Management, Faculty management Sciences Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, P.M.B. 4000, Ogbomoso, Oyo State.)

Abstract

Transport infrastructure plays a crucial role in Nigeria’s economic development, mobility and environmental sustainability. Road pavement facilitates the movement of vehicles and ensure safe and efficient transportation of goods, services and people across the country. The study was conducted on Asa-dam Road Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, primary source of data and random sampling techniques was employed to select 150 respondents. Findings from the study revealed that potholes, depression of the road surface and other road failures are caused by heavy vehicles. Majority of respondents (96.7%) perceived highest level of major damage are caused by heavy vehicles of 50 tons above while 45.3% perceived minor damage and 34.7% perceived medium damage by heavy vehicles of less than 30 tons. P-value of 0.000 is below the conventional threshold of p

Suggested Citation

  • Dr. Omolola Madoh GEGELESO & Okikiola Oluwabukunmi BELLO, 2024. "Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Road Pavement and Implication on the Environment in North Central Nigeria," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 11(2), pages 423-435, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:2:p:423-435
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/digital-library/volume-11-issue-2/423-435.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/articles/effect-of-heavy-vehicles-on-road-pavement-and-implication-on-the-environment-in-north-central-nigeria/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:2:p:423-435. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Dr. Renu Malsaria (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.