Rapid urbanization and increasing rate of poverty are among the greatestchallenges facing developing countries in the new millennium. This is obvious from thealarming rate of urban population growth, particularly in Nigeria. Indeed, for more than50years, the progressive population drift to urban centres in Nigeria have not beingmatched by corresponding upgrade in infrastructural facilities. In other words, theimplication of urban population growth on the economy of developing countries has been described as stagnant and unrewarding (Salau, 1992; Mabogunje, 2002). Publicinfrastructure and social services have over the years been overstretched, while theprocess of urban development and infrastructural overhaul has being insignificant in mostcities. In recent time, transportation infrastructure is often viewed by national policymakers as a second tier investment priority, pitted against more immediate, socially-oriented poverty reduction programmes. In the face of fiscal pressures, spending on themaintenance of transport infrastructure, let alone on the building of new infrastructure, isoften the first to be postponed, if not forgone. The concomitant effect of populationexplosion on the urban areas is the inadequacy of transport provision; which has givenplace to dilapidated roads and very rickety vehicles plying death traps roads. It is acommon sight to see urban dwellers travel in over-crowded public transport vehicles,with extremely poor services and unhealthy travel environment.