Road transport of passengers aboard a large wheeled motor vehicle running a scheduled route with multiple stops, operated as public transit, a private commercial service, or a dedicated function such as a school or shuttle bus. Bus transport is typically the most flexible and least costly form of scheduled public transport to establish, since it uses existing roads rather than requiring dedicated fixed infrastructure, though a bus can also run on a segregated busway as in bus rapid transit.
Facts
Core ConcernShared road transport of many passengers at once along fixed or chartered routes. 1 Connections
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Bus
WikipediaIntroduction
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport.
History
The first internal combustion engine buses, or motor buses, were used in 1895.
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