Socio-Economic Characteristics and Taxis Services Patronage in Lagos State, Nigeria

Taxi service is a pivotal instrument in public transport and its dominance highly felt providing door to place time utility. It respect of this importance that study examined the socio-economic characteristics influence on taxis services patronage Lagos State. 304 completed questionnaires were used seeking information from passengers their variation using multistage sampling technique. Descriptive statistics describing while inferential statistical tools multiple regression analysis determine patronage. was observed findings there strong correlation between passenger companies age (Age), gender (Gen), income (Inc), occupation (Occ) education (Edu) with R = 0.986) Uber, 0.983 Oga 0.974 Bolt Taxi. Hence, it recommended strict rules regulations guiding routine operation delivery populace must be adhere to, recruitment selection drivers considered merit high level scrutiny.