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    The potential of incorporating local travel route information in addressing systems development to improve urban mobility in Kumasi, Ghana.
    (KNUST, 2019-06) Yeboah, Assuamah Abigail
    Despite the vital roles of Street Addressing Systems (SAS) and Local Travel Route Information (LTRI) in urban mobility requirements, the scholarly consensus on knowledge, attitudes and practices about SAS and the relationship with urban mobility remains unclear. Like many other sub-Saharan African cities, SAS in Kumasi barely consider the utility of LTRI in bridging the formal and informal addressing gap. The current study therefore, investigates the possibility of incorporating local travel route information in addressing systems development to improve urban mobility in Kumasi. The theoretical perspectives draw on the knowledge-attitude practice model. Using theoretical and multi-stage cluster cross-sectional survey data of informal transport operators and road users (N = 390), Chi-square tests and logistic regression models were employed in estimating the associations among study variables of interest. The study recorded low levels of knowledge about SAS and negative attitudes towards its use among the study cohort. The results of the study again revealed significant associations between respondents’ knowledge and attitude, knowledge and practice and attitude and practice. The study showed that knowledge, attitude and education were significant predictors of street addressing systems’ use for road navigation. However, no relationship was found between the availability of resources and access to services and use of SAS for meeting navigational needs. Using QGIS, a total of 120 stops (alighting points) were mapped along the selected trotro routes, converted to a shapefile, and overlaid on the study area map. The study concludes that, capitalising on GIS technology, LTRI could be successfully incorporated in SASs to increase accessibility and improve urban mobility in Kumasi. Recommendations are suggested to inform policy directions on addressing systems development, management and utilisation. The information derived from the outcome of the study is useful for future research and is currently being applied to create a digital travel aid (routing infrastructure) based on LRTI to guide local travel.