Transport data

Among the operators on the Transita index there are 301 city pairs you can travel between on a single scheduled bus.

No Nigerian operator publishes a connecting fare.

Lagos holds 90 of the 323 bus terminals recorded on the Transita index. Abuja, the next largest, has 26. No other city in Nigeria reaches 16.

Fleet size is the number operators quote and the least useful one.

Everyone in Nigeria knows bus fares went up. What is much less understood is by how much, on which routes, and why the increase was so uneven.

Aviation solved distribution in the 1960s.

Ask anyone to picture intercity bus travel and they picture a coach. The Nigerian network does not run on coaches.

The standard mental model of Nigerian intercity travel is a wheel: Lagos at the centre, Abuja as a second hub, spokes running out to everywhere els

Comparing bus fares across routes of different lengths is close to meaningless.

The Nigerian intercity bus market is usually described as intensely competitive. On the routes most people travel, that is true.