Usually, planning proceeds from issue identification and evaluation, directed at addressing recognized problems. As straightforward as it sounds, this sometimes can be difficult to achieve in settings where outdated master plans, continuous piecemeal and poorly regulated development are the order of the day. Even worse is the near total lack of baseline data upon which rational decisions about issues, such as mobility can be premised. Resulting into a scenario where holistic evaluations of city mobility needs and requirements are sometimes entirely jeopardized, leaving city managers with very little information to work with. The consequence is a distress filled mobility environment, from which determinants of dilemma may be tacitly admitted, but are generally not properly determined. This work uses perception of travelers' to rank and classify effect of contextually relevant mobility influencing attributes of Ilorin metropolis, as bases for isolating determinants of mobility dilemma in the city. The approach is targeted at providing city managers with a simplistic alternative way of evaluating needs, based upon user identified preferences, such that determinants of mobility dilemma become implicit enough to be utilized for decision making and planning. The work involved a survey of randomly selected respondents' from officially designated spatial subunits of Ilorin metropolis. It became apparent that attributes of public modes, development characteristics, as well as other operational, economic and safety attributions of the city's mobility environment were influencing perception of mobility by respondents' negatively, mainly as an offshoot of inadequate planning and regulation enforcement in the city. It is suggested that, parsimonious techniques such as utilized in this work, be employed in bridging the gap between comprehensive plans, where wherewithal is lacking.
Most city authorities in paratransit dependent urban centres are inclined towards formalization of public transport operations, perceivably as a way of excluding informality and bringing sanity and control to the sector. Such city authorities do not seem to recognize the contribution of paratransit to the enhancement of mobility and accessibility, even when capacity to formalize or regulate public transportation is grossly lacking. Several failed attempts at radical transformation of paratransit in such environments are attested to within available literature. The situation is further compounded by derailments suffered from spirited resistance to radical transformation by thousands of operators in the sector. The manifest consequences include ineffective mobility, reduced productivity, unlevel playing field, underutilized formal transit, if any, and other forms of economic and social losses. Against this backdrop, a shift in thinking towards non radical techniques of supervising paratransit operations in paratransit dependent cities is suggested. Overt institutional control should begin to give way to covert participation and supervision. This is necessary because the paratransit sector have for decades proven to be a veritable mobility option in paratransit dependent cities. Hence, the real challenge is in finding ways of harnessing advantages and mitigating disadvantages inherent in paratransit operations. It is believed that by moving away from the problematic formalization and laissezfaire postures commonly adopted by authorities of paratransit dependent cities, quasiformal management approaches may offer room for reasonable supervision to take effect.
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