Abstract
This paper aims at accessing the effectiveness of the Nigeria’s National Transport Policy (NTP) in enhancing Social Sustainability in Nigeria and offer guidance to Policy makers on the effective ways to make progress towards a sustainable Transportation in Nigeria. This paper offers an analytical evaluation of the Policy, using both Primary and Secondary data. To do this, the Survey research method was adopted for the Study and questionnaires were used as data collection Instrument. A random of 127 or 68.28% Transport companies were selected for the study out of the population of 186 registered Luxury Buses and shipping companies in Nigeria in 2009. For completeness, a sample of 400 non Transport workers was included in the study. Therefore , a total of 1670 questionnaires were administered to the respondents , out of which 1452 questionnaire s were completed given a response rate of 86.95%. The data analyses revealed that overall mean score was 2.22 which was lower than the expected value of 3.00 on a five point likert scale. The Test of the hypothesis also indicated that the Z – calculated and the Z – tabulated were 10.6094 and 1.9600 respectively. Thus the null hypothesis was rejected at 5% level of Significance since the Z- calculated is greater than Z- tabulated. Therefore, it was concluded that the extent to which the Transport Policy enhances Social Sustainability in Nigeria was below the average. This implies that the policy had little or no influence in reducing the negative social impact emanating from Nigeria’s Transport system. In this light, it is recommended so that the policy should be modified so as to make it capable of increasing the salience of the Policy for implementing Organizations.