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[8] [5] Low-floor buses, designed to speed boarding and alighting and improve riding conditions for elderly and disabled passengers, were first tested in 1997 [9] [10] and have made up most of the new non-express buses ordered since the early 2000s. The last non-express high-floor bus was withdrawn in 2019. [11]
A 'skoolie' is a former school bus or shuttle bus that has been converted into an RV. This includes full-size buses based on a dedicated school bus chassis, or a "short bus", based on a cutaway van, heavy duty pickup truck cutaway, or medium duty truck cutaway with a bus body attached. (A cutaway is where a vehicle frame is fitted with only a ...
At 18 metres (60 ft) long, as compared to a standard 12-metre (40 ft) bus, the Nova LFS articulated vehicles hold about 112 passengers, compared to 65 on the standard-length bus. [20] A TTC bus painted in livery based on the Flexity Outlook streetcars used by the TTC in 2018. The livery was introduced on TTC buses the previous year.
The Gillig Low Floor (originally named Gillig H2000LF and also nicknamed Gillig Advantage [1]) is a transit bus manufactured by Gillig since 1997. [2] The second low-floor bus design introduced in the United States (after the New Flyer Low Floor), the Low Floor originally served as a second product range for the company alongside the Gillig Phantom.
"A bus is a motor vehicle designed, constructed and/or used to transport passengers. A motorcoach is a bus designed with an elevated passenger deck located over a baggage compartment. A minibus is designed to transport 16 or more passengers (including the driver) and is typically built on a small truck chassis."
Additionally, data from 2012 to 2021 shows that only 5% of deaths in school bus-related crashes were bus passengers, while 70% of deaths in these crashes were people in other cars.
Passengers per square metre is a quality of service metric used to determine the standard of comfort provided to standing passengers in a transportation vehicle. Multiplying this number by the total available standing area on a vehicle gives the total standing passenger capacity. Bus services in Europe operate at about four passengers per ...
A bus (contracted from omnibus, [1] 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. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for charter purposes, or through private ownership.