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Innovative Strategies for Transport Policies in Infrastructure Development: Nigerian Stakeholders’ Perspective

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There are challenges and opportunities of deploying policies for transport infrastructure improvement in developing countries. Transport infrastructural development remains a major tool for achieving the aspirations of the newly introduced economic principles of the Federal Government of Nigeria. This study investigates the impact of innovative strategic approaches for improved transport policy and how the strategies are well incorporated to solve the problems faced in the infrastructure sector to enhance improved economic growth. The research involves a questionnaire survey conducted to key stakeholders in Nigerian six states. The study was focused on the stakeholders selected from the public entities, private clients, consultants, and contractors operating within the Nigerian construction sector. Based on the empirical data, the specific ways in which innovative strategies for transport policies affect infrastructure development contributing to sustainable economic growth have been shown. The findings contribute to the fields of innovative strategies for transport policies in infrastructure development by linking various aspects of innovative strategies for transport policies and infrastructure development and their interrelationships to sustainable economic development from stakeholders’ perspective. The results show that variables of innovative strategies in transportation and transportation infrastructure improvement have different roles and significant positive impact on sustainable economic development.

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  1. Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts, Girne American University, University Drive, Kyrenia, 99428, Kibris, Mersin 10, Turkey

    Balkiz Yapicioglu

  2. Faculty of Architecture, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, Lefke, 99728, Kibris, Mersin 10, Turkey

    Onyebuchi Nwabueze Mogbo

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, 99628, Kibris, Mersin 10, Turkey

    Ibrahim Yitmen

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Yapicioglu, B., Mogbo, O. & Yitmen, I. Innovative Strategies for Transport Policies in Infrastructure Development: Nigerian Stakeholders’ Perspective. Int J Civ Eng 15, 747–761 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40999-017-0172-0

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