Efficacy of the Legal Mechanisms That Has Been Put in Place to Combat Lawlessness in Public Transport Sector in Kenya

EasyChair Preprint no. 8893

Abstract

Globally, public transport is mostly used as means of transport and their policies are well laid out, in North America its used for mass transit as they are given funds by their government whereby, they charge a fixed rate. There is an international network which is under public transport authorities which has mandated International Association of Public Trust (IAPT) with making of policy decisions, Lawlessness is a major problem within the public transport industry, in Kenya Matatu are used as the main means of transport 70% of the transportation, involve buses, matatus, and motorcycles that uses paratransit mode therefore they are of very importance towards the economic development. This industry requires an effective law to facilitate efficient operations. Major objective of carrying out this research are to assess the efficacy of the legal mechanisms , The theories are traffic flow to elaborate what exactly happens during pick hours and less congested hours, lawlessness theory to show how insanity and crime cripple in this industry. The methodology applied is Doctrinal whereas the design it includes content Analysis which involves documents and communication facts relational analysis it used in computational serving in to help discover the relationship that is between independent variable and dependent variable. study recommends the implementation of the road traffic regulations and expansion of offices at all county levels with adequate human resources and also registration of drivers at the national level as well as promoting awareness on the importance of road safety.

Keyphrases: Efficacy, Kenya, Lawlessness, Legal Mechanisms

@Booklet{EasyChair:8893,
  author = {Kingori Florence},
  title = {Efficacy of the Legal Mechanisms That Has Been Put in Place to Combat Lawlessness in Public Transport Sector in Kenya},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 8893},

  year = {EasyChair, 2022}}