The sustainability of the physical environment has now attracted the attention of various professionals,
not least, transportation planners. It is incontrovertible that motorcars contribute, in no
small measure, to environmental greenhouse gases. In contemporary times, there has been a clarion
call from experts to car owners, stressing the need to reduce car trips. Evidences from existing
literature tend to suggest that women are more likely to heed this call than men. This article therefore
explores the propensity of female car owners in Akure to reduce their car trips and patronize
public transport. Using a non-probability sampling technique, 100 female drivers, who normally
drive in their cars to work, were sampled from Akure urban traffic for this study. Some probabilistic
models were employed to classify the sampled respondents into their appropriate mode – choice
category. The model predicted an increase in the number of women who preferred to discard their
private cars for a public transport mode in Akure. The paper concludes with recommendations on
ways of encouraging female car-owners to patronize public transport mode in their journey to work
in Akure.