Chinebuli Uzondu

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Research Fellow at Edge Hill University

The impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the transport sector and the corresponding mitigation policies have been widely investigated across the world. There were uncertainties regarding the virus and its role in the context of transport. This paper examined the resilience of transport services in three cities of the Global South durin...

The impending deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) will lead to mixed traffic conditions, where pedestrians will be required to interact with both AVs and human-driven vehicles. For traffic flow to be safe and efficient, AVs’ understanding of pedestrians’ behaviour and intention is as important as pedestrians’ perception of AVs’ status and intent...

In Nigeria, a developing country and prominent oil producer, the transition towards electric vehicle adoption is unfolding amidst unique challenges. This study addresses crucial research gaps concerning Electric vehicle adoption in developing nations, with Nigeria as a focal point. Through interviews with 31 experts, we've uncovered a landscape fil...

This study aims to estimate the direct economic impact of poor road infrastructure disruptions on Road Freight Systems (RFS) in Nigeria. The essentiality of road freight movement to various cities in Nigeria has resulted to various disruptions especially poor road infrastructure this study investigates. There is seemingly high travel time loss and...

Public and paratransit services in low- and middle-income countries were severely hit by COVID-19 and related mitigation measures. This has affected both passengers and service providers. While there is now an abundance of studies investigating the effects on passengers, the literature on the impacts of the pandemic on drivers or service providers...

The potential for an intelligent transportation system (ITS) has been made possible by the growth of the Internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), resulting in the integration of IoT and ITS—known as the Internet of vehicles (IoV). To achieve the goal of automatic driving and efficient mobility, IoV is now combined with modern comm...

This study addresses the call for new insights to improve equity in active transportation systems by exploring the experiences of female cyclists in Lagos, Nigeria. Qualitative data were collected and triangulated from three different sources – four weeks of ethnographic fieldwork, which involved riding with and observing female cyclists and observ...

In order to combat the spread of COVID-19, various measures were taken in most countries to make public transit and paratransit safer. These additional measures, which include restrictions on number of passengers, provision of hand sanitisers and face coverings, and more frequent cleaning add to the costs of operations or reduce profitability. The...

This section is dedicated to case examples of studies that provide a unique contribution to understanding and improvement of Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) and traffic safety in Africa.

As the chapter contributions by the various authors in this book have demonstrated, transport and mobility in Africa are not simply about shuttling people and goods from one point to another. Instead, they are fundamental to creating inclusive and sustainable cities.

Non-motorised transport (NMT) modes are an important and integral component of urban transport across the world. Besides the provision of basic mobility, affordable transport and physical fitness, they serve to reduce negative environmental impacts of transportation. However, despite the NMT being a dominant mode of transport in most African rural...

This book provides a collection of insightful conceptual and empirical works that situate transport and mobility challenges in the unique context of individual countries and cities while highlighting commonalities across the African continent. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book covers important themes in transport and mobility...

In this introductory chapter, we briefly sketch the transport and mobility situations of African cities today. We highlight the urban mobility and transport problems that are becoming increasingly pronounced as urban areas in Africa have expanded in population and physical size. We also introduce the five thematic focus of the book, and set the bac...

Stakeholders play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth design and implementation of policies worldwide. this research presents the results of three focus groups carried out with stakeholders from different transport ministries and agencies involved in road safety in Nigeria. it aimed to understand their perception of road safety in Nigeria through...

Stakeholders play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth design and implementation of policies worldwide. This research presents the results of three focus groups carried out with stakeholders from different transport ministries and agencies involved in road safety in Nigeria. It aimed to understand their perception of road safety in Nigeria through...

Highly automated vehicles (HAVs) will need to interact with pedestrians in a safe and efficient way. Thus, investigating and modeling vehicle-pedestrian interactions at uncontrolled locations is essential to ensure safety and acceptance of these vehicles. Controlled studies are a valuable tool for these scenarios where all the tasks are not possibl...

This is a summary of findings from the project - Modelling the exposure risk trade-off between public transit and private paratransit for transport decision making in the era of COVID19

Introduction: In current urban traffic, pedestrians attempting to cross the road at un-signalized locations are thought to mostly use implicit communication, such as deceleration cues, to interpret a vehicle's intention to yield. There is less reliance on explicit driver- or vehicle-based messages, such as hand/head movements, or flashing lights/b...

Highly automated vehicles (HAVs) will need to interact with pedestrians in a safe and efficient way. Thus, investigating and modeling vehicle-pedestrian interactions at uncontrolled locations is essential to ensure safety and acceptance of these vehicles. Controlled studies are a valuable tool for these scenarios where all the tasks are not possibl...

In current urban traffic, pedestrians attempting to cross the road at un-signalised locations are thought to mostly use implicit communication, such as deceleration cues, to interpret a vehicle’s intention to yield. There is less reliance on explicit driver- or vehicle-based messages, such as hand/head movements, or flashing lights/beeping horns. W...

With emerging autonomous vehicle technologies, their interaction in a mixed traffic environment with existing road users such as human driven vehicles and pedestrians has been highlighted for further research and modelling. The real-world study of the interactions is typically limited for ethical and control reasons. In this paper, a distributed si...

Background The aim of this study is to provide communication design basis for human-like Automated Vehicle (AV) while understanding the interaction between the pedestrians and human driven cars, and the interaction between the pedestrians and the AV using nonverbal vehicle cues (NVC). Based on the literature review, this study amalgamate NVCs as ve...

This paper presents the results of a cross-cultural study to investigate the influence of traffic safety culture and infrastructure improvements on driver behaviour. To achieve this, the driving style of UK drivers was compared with that of Nigerians with and without experience of driving in the UK. A driving simulator experiment compared the actua...

Unsafe driver behaviour is regarded as the most significant contributory factor in road traffic crashes in Nigeria, and the prevailing road safety culture in the country is one aspect which sustains the high crash rate. This research used a problem-oriented approach with the intention to recommend research-based solutions to road safety problems in...

Unsafe driver behaviour is regarded as the most significant contributory factor in road traffic crashes in Nigeria, and the prevailing road safety culture in the country is one aspect which sustains the high crash rate. This research used a problem-oriented approach with the intention to recommend research-based solutions to road safety problems in...

Although road users are aware of the possible risks of engaging in unsafe behaviours while driving, they continue to do so. These behaviours often contribute to traffic incidents and crashes involving them and other road users. This study set out to analyse the effect of road user type, location and time of day on unsafe driving behaviours observed...

Background: The aim of the present study was to assess the safety performance in a steel industry and predicting the occurrence of incidents using Customized Predictive Risk Index (CPRI) technique. Materials and methods: 350 unsafe observations were recorded and scored based on risk factors of probability of danger, frequency of work exposure, numb...

Road traffic crashes are a major public health problem affecting those living in developing countries, exacerbated by the lack of available resources to tackle the issue (WHO, 2015). Whilst crash reduction measures have been developed and implemented, there has been limited success in developing countries and the crash rate keeps increasing. Partly...