This research paper has to be set in the framework of an important urban growth. Such urbanization goes along with urban spreading that generates an increase in both urban mobility needs and the use of public transport.The paper focuses on public transport effectiveness in Brazzaville, from the analysis of determinants linked to public transport's generalized cost on the one hand, and to the nuisance effects of such public transport on another hand.When observing urbanization in Africa, three major persistent trends are noticeable: a lower but increasing urbanization rate, in relation to the rest of the world, a faster increase in urban population, and a very heavy concentration of the population in big cities (Damon, 2016).If the urbanization rate in Africa will reach 56% in 2050, urban population in sub-Saharan Africa will experience the world's strongest increase, given that 80% of such population will be urban in the aforementioned year; and big cities have the tendency to grow faster, along with an increase in both their urban transport needs and mobility (Infhotep Cabinet, 2016). Indicators reflecting living standards-health, education and hygiene-are higher in cities than in the countryside (Bloom & Khanna, 2008).Congo B., a country in sub Saharan Africa, can be said to be a "macrocephalic" country, on the ground that there is a big city which dominates more (Gubry, 1991). Brazzaville is that city, with 1, 733, 272 inhabitants, and which represents 60% of the whole number of inhabitants in the country's six major towns (INS, 2015).Brazzaville is a «macrocephaly» as it holds in it the whole lot of urban transport system of the country.We can then talk about an urban spreading of Brazzaville with, on the one hand, the increase in the population that moved from 1,373,382 inhabitants in 2007 (according to the 2007 general population and habitat Census), to 1,733,272 inhabitants in 2015 and, on the other hand, the creation of two new districts-the 8 th and the ninth ones-in 2011, respectively Madibou (southern Brazzaville) and Djiri (northern Brazzaville). Such a creation of new districts results in considerable increase in the daily moving of people in Brazzaville. Madibou has an area of 80.04 square kilometers, while Djiri has 83.46 square kilometers. Together, these two districts represent 50.1% of the area of the city of Brazzaville (INS, 2016). Such an urban spreading made it possible for private-owned vehicles to play a key role, as many people have recourse to them for their daily moving, notably from home to office and vice versa.It is rather a constraining usage of the car. When leaving or entering the aforementioned districts, people are confronted to the serious problem of traffic jams, notably at rush hours.Life in the city of Brazzaville is closely linked to public transport; which is often noticeable whenever there are sociopolitical events within the city. When public transport is operational, this surely means that life in the city goes on (Moyo Nzololo, 2008). Public transport is made of privat...