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An assessment of the impact of land use characteristics on residential choice making: Implication to urban transit planning in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
SURV (DR) chima OGBA

DR inah OKON

Geoid & Envt’l Services Ltd

Geography/Regional Planning

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University of Calabar,

Port Harcourt, Rivers State

PMB 1115 Calabar, CRS.

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Key words: Land use, residential choice making, urban transit, and traffic congestion.

Abstract
In current practice, very few Metropolitan Planning Agencies attempt to capture the effects of transportation system changes on land use, and the consequent feedback effects on transportation system performance, despite substantial evidence that these effects may be significant. This has resulted in haphazard urban development characterized by lack of order in land use development and most importantly traffic bottlenecks. This informed the need for this research whose main objective is to assess the influence of individual land use types on household residential choice making and implication to urban transit planning. The study administered 3001 instruments to 15 study locations and land use survey was carried out using foot and automobile inspection and analysis of the 2005 updated auto photomap of Port Harcourt metropolis, using Arcview GIS.
However, household residential choice making in the study area was statistically confirmed to be dependent on available transportation options, commercial, public/semi public and recreational land uses given a good income level. In terms of percentage land use allocations in the study area, residential land use (26.8%) and transportation (2.68%) accounts for the highest total area of the study area followed by open area undeveloped (20.80%) and mostly marshy environment.
The occupation of 7.61% of Port Harcourt urban land area by transportation land use is mostly

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