Abstract:
This study provides a comparative study of travel behaviour
of the elderly in planned and unplanned communities of Lagos metropolis using
Festac Town and Ketu communities as case study. The study argues that the quality
of neighbourhood affects the travel pattern and quality of life of old people.
A total of 155 old people were randomly selected and interviewed with the aid
of questionnaire in the two contrasting neighbourhoods, 80 from Festac Town
and 75 from Ketu. The elderly constitutes 1.5% of the population in the two
neighbourhoods. Data collected covered socio-economic characteristics, travel
behaviour and mobility challenge of respondents. Both descriptive and inferential
statistics were used for data analysis. The difference in the socio-economic
status and travel pattern of respondents between the neighbourhoods was established
with Chi-square test at 0.05 levels of significance. The findings showed that
51.0% of respondents were males, 62.0% were in their 60s, 84.0% had formal education
and the mean of years of education was 13.3, 56.8% did not earn >