Sustainable Approaches for Surface Transportation Mortality in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper examines sustainable approach for surface transportation road mortality in Nigeria. Road transportation as a major mode of transportation and is the most used mode of transportation for the movement of people, goods and services from one place to another. As a result of this, major obstacles and problems have been confronting the mode. In Nigeria, the main mode of transportation that contributed immensely to accidents is the road transportation mode. Thus, the paper is trying to find a remedial strategy for reducing the rate of accident on our major roads by providing sustainable approaches to our transportation system. Also, the paper engulfs the causes of road mortality (accident), strategies for reducing the rate of accident on our roads, traffic safety education to both pedestrians and other road users, road accidents profile in Nigeria as well as the statistics of road accidents. The paper suggests recommendations by which road accidents can be reduced if not eradicated completely.