Despite the fact that, electronic payment system has received so much attention from various researchers around the globe; in practice, there is still lack of acceptance in electronic payment system among the users in most developing economies considering its convenience and usefulness. Trust has been proposed as a crucial determinant for human decision on acceptance, yet just a couple of studies have investigated its role on electronic payment system. The major focus of this research was to test the role of trust as a mediator factor in determining acceptance of electronic payment in BRT system. Drawing on technology acceptance model (TAM) and the theory of planned behavior propounded by (Buckley et al. 2018), we empirically test the effectiveness of trust as a mediator using 356 survey data and verify the validity and reliability to provide evidence on the proposed hypothesis in this study through structural equation modeling (LISREL). The result indicated strong support for the effects of perceived security and perceived ease of use while perceived usefulness did not find support on the outcome. Most importantly, trust was found to significantly influenced acceptance of electronic payment system. The research findings suggest a positive means to encourage acceptance of electronic payment system for BRT users.
Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Professor Ren Chong for providing helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper and warm appreciation to the Chinese Government Scholarship Council for providing the Corresponding Author with fully funded study grants to pursue his postgraduate studies at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). AbstractThe issue of gas flaring in Nigeria has become a topical one in view of the devastating effect it has in the socioeconomic lives of the people in the affected areas. This paper investigates the environmental implication and mitigating strategies of the victims in Nigeria. Mix method was adopted by conducting 60 semi-structured interviews in three communities. The data was transcribed and analyzed using ATLAS.ti and content analysis. Findings show that gas flaring is the major problem facing the Niger Delta communities having negative effects on resident's health, source of income and farm produce without any legal framework to curb it. Findings also show that people mitigate by using self-strategies such as nose mask, fertilizer for farm produce and boiling of drinking water. Data collected from government shows that there is an annual increase in gas production but gas flaring decreases at a slower rate as depicted in the graph. The paper is the first to conduct research on the coping strategy of the victims of gas flaring in Niger Delta and the importance of technology in eradicating gas flaring. The study recommended technology transfer from technologically advanced countries in capturing the associated gas instead of flaring it.
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