A Daily Flow Profile of Traffic in An Urban Traffic Corridor: The Nigerian Experience Indus Journal of Management & Social Sciences 99 Indus Journal of Management & Social Sciences Vol. 2, No. 2::99-109(Fall 2008) A Daily Flow Profile of Traffic in an Urban Traffic Corridor: The Nigerian Experience S. I. Oni, * Charles Asenime * , Emmanuel Ege * , Kemi Efunshade * and S.A. Oke ** ABSTRACT In the commercial city of Lagos, Nigeria, traffic congestion poses a great challenge to commuters, particularly businessmen and workers that need to keep appointments and report in offices timely. A great amount of productive man-hours is therefore wasted in traffic congestion. This coupled with the psychological stress, and the loss of potential income that commuters experience in traffic jams present a frustrating scenario to those affected. As a result, traffic managers are motivated to understand traffic information through data generated from vehicle counts as a means of guiding road users on how to avoid traffic jams in routes. This is an urban traffic corridors problem, which plays an important role in urban traffic network analysis. Unfortunately, till date, there is sparse documented information on urban traffic corridors relevant to Lagos, Nigeria. In this paper, through the application of the screen line traffic count methodology, we investigate the daily flow profile of traffic The material presented by the author does not necessarily represent the viewpoint of editors and the management of Indus Institute of Higher Education (IIHE) as well as the authors’ institute. IJMSS is published by Indus Institute of Higher Education (IIHE), Plot. # ST-2D, Block-17, Gulshan-e- Iqbal, Karachi-Pakistan * Transport Study Group, Department of Geography, University of Lagos, Nigeria ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria (Corresponding author: sa_oke@yahoo.com ) Acknowledgements: Authors would like to thank the editor and anonymous referees for their comments and insight in improving the draft copy of this article. Authors further declare that this manuscript is Original and has not previously been published, and that it is not currently on offer to another publisher. Authors also transfer copy rights to the publisher of this journal. Date of Recieving: 02-04-2008; Accepted: 12-07-2008; Published: 01-09-2008