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The Buses Portal An Arriva double-decker bus, running route 102 on the London Buses network. A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, or autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are used for longer distance services. Bus manufacturing is increasingly globalised, with the same design appearing around the world. Buses may be used for scheduled bus transport, scheduled coach transport, school transport, private hire, tourism; promotional buses may be used for political campaigns and others are privately operated for a wide range of purposes. Horse drawn buses were used from 1820, followed by steam buses in the 1830 and electric trolleybuses in 1882. The first buses powered by internal combustion engines were used 1895 and this is still the most common power source. Recently there has been growing interest in hybrid electric buses, fuel cell buses, electric buses as well as ones powered by compressed natural gas or bio-diesel. Template:/box-footer File:T.M Travel Optare Solo.jpg TM Travel is a bus operator based in Halfway, Sheffield which operates passenger bus services in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Founded in 1995 as a family-owned operation with one bus, by March 2008 it had expanded to become the largest independent operator in Derbyshire. The company was taken over by the Wellglade Group in January 2010. 325px Here at the Piccadilly Gardens terminus, brand new Enviro 400H electric hybrid double decker bus 12038 (MV60 BVE) is on its first day in service with Stagecoach Manchester. 100px ... that public transport in Valparaíso, Chile, includes trolleybuses (pictured) that were built 60 years ago, by Pullman, and were declared a national monument in 2003? ... that the trolleybus system serving Dayton, Ohio, in operation since 1933, is the second-oldest such system in the Western Hemisphere? ... that of more than 300 trolleybus systems currently serving cities worldwide, the 1914-opened trolleybus system in Shanghai is the oldest, and its counterpart in Philadelphia the second-oldest? ... that the bus service Coastliner 700 between Brighton and Southsea on the south coast of England, has been running for more than 35 years? ... that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium? ... that the Tietê Bus Terminal in São Paulo, Brazil, is the largest bus terminal in Latin America and the second largest in the world? ... that the November 2010 sale by Silver Star Holidays of its local bus routes around Caernarfon ended nearly ninety years of bus service operation by the company? ... that the bus services in Surat are operated by private partners for the Surat Municipal Corporation under a public–private partnership? See more... WP:WikiProject Buses Green vehicle task force WP:WikiProject Rapid transit WP:WikiProject Transport WP:WikiProject Transport in Scotland Types of buses Customized buses Full size buses Midibuses Electric midibuses Minibuses Bristol Buses Buses in Fiction Trucks Trains Trams Transport London Transport Category:Buses Category:Transport Category:Bus transport Template:/box-header {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses/to do}} Template:/box-footer Featured articles A-class articles Good articles O-Bahn Busway Tillingbourne Bus Company The Bus Uncle Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963 Kelvin Scottish The Witch Way London Country North East Lothian Buses All A-class articles are also recognized as Good articles. The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: What are portals? List of portals Featured portals Shortcuts to this page: WP:Buses • WP:Bus • Portal:Bus • P:Bus transport • P:Buses • P:Bus