Assessing Physical Risk Control Techniques Influencing Motorists’ Behaviours towards Road Safety Compliance in Lagos State, Nigeria

Abstract

Physical risk control techniques are essential elements in the development of any country’s transportation. Therefore, ensuring that the road environment is safe is a positive step to changing rightly motorists’ behaviour for compliance’s sake. This study evaluates physical risk control techniques for road safety compliance, with specific reference to the perceptions of motorists in Lagos, Nigeria. The study employed a survey research design anchored on a quantitative method. The study also adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. A survey-based questionnaire was applied to 287 registered motorists. The results showed evidence of the Friedman rank analysis of the physical risk control techniques towards road safety compliance with a chi-square outcome of 198.162 at p-value 0f 0.000. Therefore, the study recommends that efforts at implementing the rank analytical outcome should be taken seriously to further encourage collaboration among stakeholders (such as Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria Police Force, and other State Transport Authorities) in a bid to ensure that adequate road safety compliance is sustained. From the safety perspective, this study has contributed by developing a ranking for the selected physical risk control techniques that can improve road safety in Lagos State.