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An Empirical Analysis of Transportation
Infrastructure Feasibility Study
Considerations
Chioma Sylvia Okoro, Innocent Musonda,
and Justus Ngala Agumba
1 Introduction
Transportation infrastructure impacts on the growth of an economy
through employment creation and therefore enhances economic develop-
ment and provision of social services (Chen and Cruz 2012). Achieving
C. S. Okoro (*)
Finance and Investment Management Department, University of
Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
e-mail: chiomao@uj.ac.za
I. Musonda
Construction Management and Quantity Surveying Department, University
of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
e-mail: imusonda@uj.ac.za
J. N. Agumba
Department of Building Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology,
Pretoria, South Africa
e-mail: agumbajn@tut.ac.za