PROJECT · TRANSPORT PLANNING
Lagos–Ibadan Expressway Concession — Project Falcon
Overall technical adviser to the concessionaire on the tolling of Nigeria’s busiest expressway — due diligence across three plazas, and the analysis that settled the Kara layout.
CLIENT
Lagos–Ibadan Concession Company (LIBCC)
LOCATION
Ojota, Lagos – Ojoo, Ibadan
SCALE
127.6 km corridor, three toll plazas
OUR ROLE
Overall technical adviser
127.6 km
Ojota to Ojoo — opened 1978
250,000+
Passenger car units a day
3
Toll plazas: Kara, Sagamu and Ibadan
A concession lives or dies on where you put the toll plaza.
The Lagos–Ibadan Expressway runs 127.6 kilometres from Ojota to Ojoo. It opened in 1978 and now carries more than 250,000 passenger car units a day, more than any other road in Nigeria. Under Project Falcon it is being tolled under concession, with plazas at Kara, Sagamu and Ibadan.
AEC acts as the client’s overall technical adviser. We coordinate the consultant team on the scheme — highway, structural, building services and tolling — and review each of their submissions against a single standard before it goes to the client.
Our own technical work covers the road design and alignment for the three plaza sites, the appraisal of the toll plaza options, the services relocation the plazas require, and the technical evaluation of the toll and ITS vendors through to a procurement recommendation. The staggered plaza design was approved by the Federal Ministry of Works in July 2026.
Our role
Design review and consultant coordination
Acting as the client’s central technical authority — coordinating the highway, structural, building services and tolling consultants, and reviewing every submission against one standard.
Toll plaza option appraisal
Appraisal of the plaza configuration options at Kara, Sagamu and Ibadan against capacity, revenue integrity, geometry, encroachment and road safety, and a recommendation to the client.
Road design and alignment
Highway design and alignment for the three plaza sites, so the plazas sit correctly within the corridor and its bridge structures.
Toll and ITS vendor evaluation
Technical evaluation of the toll collection and intelligent transport system vendors, through to a procurement recommendation.
Services relocation
Identification and relocation of the services affected by the plaza works.
Corridor length, opening date and traffic volumes: Federal Ministry of Works and construction press. Concession scope, plaza locations and AEC’s role: AEC project records for LIBCC (Project Falcon), 2026. The comparative appraisal of the staggered plaza options at Kara was authored by Ryt-Coxt Logics Limited within the consultant team; AEC reviewed and advised the client on it. Commercial terms are not published.
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