Transport and Maritime Digest.

Urbanization has been one of the dominant contemporary processes as a growing share of the global population lives in cities.  Considering this trend, urban transportation issues are of foremost importance to support passenger’s requirements of large movements. Traditionally, the focus of urban transportation has been on passengers as cities were viewed as locations of utmost human interactions with intricate traffic patterns linked to communities, commercial transactions and leisure activities.  Services rendered by public transportation has been changed by new manufacturing, retailing and management practices. Urban Transportation is simply defined as transportation within/in the cities. Urban transport demand has increased substantially in the urban areas of Accra due to increases in population as a result of both natural causes and the migration from rural areas to areas in Accra. There are other factors causing an upsurge in transport demand. Some of these factors are socio