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Buses edit   Buses Shortcuts: WP:Bus WP:Buses P:Bus P:Buses P:Bus transport 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 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. Read More Show new selections edit   Selected article A Delaine bus. Delaine Buses is a bus operator based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. They operate many East Lancashire Coachbuilders buses including the first ever Olympus. More articles... edit   Selected picture A Plaxton Beaver minibus (on Mercedes-Benz 711D chassis) in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, UK. More pictures... edit   Did you know? ... 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 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 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 Casper the Commuting Cat is a book about the true story of a cat who was a regular bus commuter in Plymouth, England? Start a new article edit   WikiProjects WP:WikiProject Buses Green vehicle task force WP:WikiProject Rapid transit WP:WikiProject Transport WP:WikiProject Transport in Scotland edit   Topics Types of buses Customized buses Full size buses Midibuses Electric midibuses Minibuses Bristol Buses Buses in Fiction edit   Related portals Trains Transport London Transport UK Trams edit   Categories Category:Buses Category:Transport Category:Bus transport edit   Things you can do for WikiProject Buses Here are some tasks you can do: Article requests: Portal:Truck, Bucks County Transportation Management Association, Fahslabend trolleybus switch, Fredericksburg Regional Transit, Hino Grand View, Neoplan Megaliner, Expand: Mitsubishi Fuso Aero King, Portal:Bus, Isle of Wight Bus & Coach Museum Stubs: Nissan Diesel Space Dream, Citrus Connection, Escambia County Area Transit, Space Coast Area Transit, Winter Haven Area Transit, Busscar, Chicken bus Verify: Bus garage, Bus lane, Bus priority, Bus rapid transit, Bus terminus, Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, Hail and ride, Implementation of bus rapid transit Other: Represent a worldwide view of Coach (vehicle), assess pages here and here. Sign Up! edit   Reviewed articles Featured articles A-class articles Good articles O-Bahn Busway Tillingbourne Bus Company The Bus Uncle Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963 All A-class articles are also recognized as Good articles. edit   Associated Wikimedia Buses on Wikibooks  Buses on Wikimedia Commons Buses on Wikinews  Buses on Wikiquote  Buses on Wikisource  Buses on Wikiversity  Buses on Wiktionary  Manuals and books Images and media News Quotations Texts Learning resources Definitions What are portals? · List of portals · Featured portals Purge server cache