The study was to
establish the contribution of public transport services to the development of
Kigali city. Glossily, the transport sector plays an important role in the
economic development of a country, the transport network drives other sectors
such as agriculture, trade or business sector and all other service sector.
Though research transport services has been found to create employment, income,
revenue, increase tax and infrastructure development as well as improve
wellbeing of the people. The problem was that transport services does not offer
the expected services and benefits in Kigali city and its economic contribution
is not recognized by the local community. The specific objectives included to
find out transport services contribution to economic development, to find out
the factors that limit the contribution and the solution to the problems.
Pearson correlations test indicates a positive and very high relationship
between variables of this study. The researcher concluded that transport is an
important element of economic development and several factors influence
transport which also affects economic development. It was recommended that RFTC
should bring modern busses for better transport and satisfaction of passengers.
RFTC should also train drivers and conductors to improve professionalism
service to passengers.
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