Sporveisbussene

Infobox Company
company_name = AS Sporveisbussene
company_
company_type = Subsidiary
foundation = 1997
location = Oslo, Norway
key_people = Tore Berg (CEO)
area_served = Oslo, Norway
industry = Transport
products =
revenue = profit NOK 643 million (2005)
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees = 977 (2005)
parent = Kollektivtransportproduksjon
subsid = Nexus Trafikk
Lavprisekspressen
homepage = [http://www.sporveien.no www.sporveien.no]
footnotes = [cite web |url=http://www.sporveien.no/templates/Page____622.aspx |title=Om AS Sporveisbussene |accessdate=2007-01-20 |language=Norwegian |author=Oslo Sporveier]

AS Sporveisbussene is a bus company that operates about 75% of the routes in Oslo, Norway. The company was created in 1997 when the then Oslo Sporveier was reorganised. It is now a subsidiary of Kollektivtransportproduksjon, a municipal company responsible for operating public transport in Oslo. In 2003 the Oslo City Council decided that bus transport in Oslo was to be based on public service obligation contracts, and Sporveisbussene has steadily lost its routes to these contracts. Instead, Sporveisbussene has established a subsidiary, Nexus Trafikk, that can compete in the competitions, and has won many of them. [cite web |url=http://www.sporveien.no/templates/Page____1251.aspx |title=Buss |accessdate=2007-01-20 |language=Norwegian |author=Oslo Sporveier] The company also operates the express coaches branded Lavprisekspressen.

Between them the two companies operate 413 buses, have 977 employees and have the headquarters at Alnabru in Oslo. As of 2005 the bus fleet consisted of:
* 72 MAN NG313 (articulated bus)
* 40 MAN NL263
* 11 MAN NL353
* 5 MAN midi buses
* 40 Mercedes-Benz Citaro (articulated bus)
* 64 Mercedes single buses
* 9 Mercedes-Benz Citaro (boggi bus)
* 8 Mercedes service buses
* 26 Scania single buses
* 22 Scania boggi buses
* 13 Volvo articulated buses
* 9 Volvo single buses [cite web |url=http://www.sporveien.no/templates/Page____625.aspx |title=Busser i Oslo |accessdate=2007-01-20 |language=Norwegian |author=Oslo Sporveier]

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