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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1. Wikipedia: Bus
WikipediaBus, 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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