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Buses and Road Mass Transit Vehicles

Road vehicles built to carry many passengers at once on a scheduled or semi-scheduled route, from formal city and intercity buses to the informal minibus and jitney services that carry the bulk of urban transit ridership in much of the world. Belongs here: buses, minibuses, jeepneys, matatus and similar shared-ride road vehicles. Does not belong here: rail-based mass transit vehicles such as trams or metro trainsets, grouped under passenger rolling stock, or hand- or animal-drawn passenger vehicles, grouped under animal- and human-powered overland vehicles.

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Era of Emergence
1895 1
Typical Passenger Capacity
100 1
Typical Passenger Capacity
30 1
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1. Wikipedia: Bus
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  • Bus, History section
    The first internal combustion engine buses, or motor buses, were used in 1895.
  • Bus, lead section, capacity sentence
    Although buses typically carry between 30 and 100 passengers, some buses have a capacity of up to 300 passengers.
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