ABSTRACTS
Enugu has witnessed an unprecedented increase in the influx of commercial
activities on their major roads with each of them competing for an accessible
location to display their goods and also access their customers. This indiscriminate
display of goods has resulted in disorderliness, chaotic traffic congestion, drainage
blockage, indiscriminate conversion of adjoining land-uses to commercial activities,
increased noise pollution, reduction in access road width, poor and inadequate
parking, visual intrusion and social crime. The fact that most neighbourhoods have
functional markets in and around them would generally presuppose that no road side
trading will be seen in the area, unfortunately this is not the situation. The desire to
actually understand the factors that have been behind the proliferation of these major
roadside trading in the area in spite of these markets has remained the concern of this
study. This study therefore aims at empirically determining the factors influencing
the proliferation of roadside trading in Enugu urban centre with a view to
appreciating the reasons for the emergence of roadside trading and evolving ways to
manage or curb this continuous emergence. The objectives were to: (i) examine the
nature of road side trading in the study area, (ii) identify the factors that contribute to
the emergence of roadside trading in the study area, and (iii) determine whether
these factors differ among the various residential densities in the study area. Two
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research hypotheses were postulated in the study. Survey research design was
adopted in this study. Both primary and secondary data were used in the study.
Primary data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire and observation.
Stratified, purposive and simple random sampling techniques were adopted in the
study to determine the sample population and the residential density areas selected in
the study. The sample frame includes roadside traders along the selected major
roads, residents (women at home) and environmental professionals. Three
neighbourhoods that have high volume of roadside activities were selected from
each of the three residential densities in Enugu urban. A total of 950 copies of
questionnaire were administered and collected in the study. Principal Component
Analysis and analysis of variance were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05
significance level. The study revealed that majority of the road-side traders do not
conform to planning standards while doing their trading activities as well as not
staying at areas designated for commercial activities. Four factors spur people to
road side trading in the study area and these include: location, economic,
accommodation, and social factors. It was recommended among others that there
should be policies that should be put in place to address unemployment in the
society and that government should provide corner shops at different strategic areas
in the neighbourhoods
, I & CHINENYE, J (2021). Factors Influencing The Proliferation Of Roadside Trading In Enugu Urban. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/factors-influencing-the-proliferation-of-roadside-trading-in-enugu-urban
, IBEKWE and JULIET CHINENYE "Factors Influencing The Proliferation Of Roadside Trading In Enugu Urban" Afribary. Afribary, 05 May. 2021, https://afribary.com/works/factors-influencing-the-proliferation-of-roadside-trading-in-enugu-urban. Accessed 03 Dec. 2024.
, IBEKWE, JULIET CHINENYE . "Factors Influencing The Proliferation Of Roadside Trading In Enugu Urban". Afribary, Afribary, 05 May. 2021. Web. 03 Dec. 2024. < https://afribary.com/works/factors-influencing-the-proliferation-of-roadside-trading-in-enugu-urban >.
, IBEKWE and CHINENYE, JULIET . "Factors Influencing The Proliferation Of Roadside Trading In Enugu Urban" Afribary (2021). Accessed December 03, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/factors-influencing-the-proliferation-of-roadside-trading-in-enugu-urban