Important factors that affect the shared taxi market in Sunyani, Ghana

What is it about?

We used principal component analysis to identified four latent factors that influence the taxi industry in the Sunyani city. Relative Importance Analysis was used to determine challenges the shared taxi drivers ranked the highest while an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was used to model the latent variables

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Why is it important?

On a relative importance scale, the topmost six challenges facing shared taxi drivers in the municipality are; lack of bus bays or stopping places, unavailability of pedestrian walking facilities, extortion charges by law enforcers, the high insurance charges, the high cost of spare parts and frequency of hospital attendance.

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