Van Hool A330

The Van Hool A330 is a 40-foot (12.2 m) full low-floor transit bus built by the Belgian manufacturer Van Hool, a member of its A3 family of city buses. Its engine lies horizontally at the back of the vehicle, and the maker also offered it as a diesel-electric hybrid, as a compressed natural gas bus and as a trolleybus. The model is best known in North America, where Van Hool and its dealer ABC Companies introduced the A3 buses to the United States transit market with AC Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002 and 2003. Other operators of the type include York Region Transit in Ontario and the Washington Circulator, which bought 29 second-hand examples from AC Transit in 2005.