Types of buses

A bus is a large wheeled vehicle meant to carry many passengers along with the driver. It is larger than a
car or van. The name is a shortened version of omnibus, which means "for everyone" in Latin. Unlike
trams or rapid transit trains. Buses used to be called omnibuses, but people now simply call them "buses".

There are many types of bus around the world.

Types of buses

Coach / Motor coach

Coach / Motor coach - A bus that is used for driving long
distances with as much comfort as possible and more
room. It has fewer doors than a city bus.

A Hispano Divo motorcoach

School bus
School bus - A bus that takes people to their school. In
America, school buses are yellow while in other
countries they may be different.

A typical American school bus

Shuttle bus
Shuttle bus - A bus that drives between places without many stops. It is often used for sport
events and other places where lots of people meet, and at airports.
 A Wright Eclipse Urban bodied Volvo
B7RLE airport shuttle bus in the
United Kingdom

Minibus
Minibus - A bus that is smaller than normal buses. It can
carry about 8 to 25 people.

A 1995-1999 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter

minibus in Strasbourg

Minicoach
Minicoach - A luxury bus that is smaller than normal
buses. It can carry about 8 to 25 people.

A sixth generation Iveco Daily

minicoach in the United Kingdom

Double-decker bus
Double-decker bus - A bus that has two floors (decks). It can carry about 70 people. Some
buses have doors in the middle and back and some buses only have doors at the front.
Double decker buses are mainly found in United Kingdom.
 A TransBus ALX400 bodied Volvo
B7TL double-decker bus in the
United Kingdom

Single-decker bus
Single-decker bus - A bus that has one floor. It can carry
about 30 people. Some buses have doors in the middle
and back and some buses only have doors at the front.
This type of bus is mainly found in cities world-wide.

A Irisbus Agora S low-floor single-

decker bus in Bourg-en-Bresse,
France

Low-floor bus
Low-floor bus - A bus that is nearer the ground than
other buses so you can get in and out more easily. This
type is often used in cities. The floor may get lower when
the bus stops and higher when it moves.

A Mercedes-Benz Citaro C2 low floor

bus in Austria

Step-entrance bus
Step-entrance bus or high-floor bus - A bus that has steps at the front. The floor does not
move up or down from the ground.
 A Northern Counties Palatine 1
bodied Volvo Olympian double
decker bus with step-entrance in the
United Kingdom

Trolleybus
Trolleybus - A bus that gets its energy from electric
cables above the street, not from petroleum fuel.

A VMZ-5298 Trolleybus in Kovrov,

Russia

Articulated bus
Articulated bus - A bus that can bend in the middle so
that it can be long and still move in small streets.

Mercedes-Benz Citaro Articulated

bus in London
Bi-articulated bus
Bi-articulated bus - A bus that can bend in 2 places so
that it can be long and still move in small streets.

Mercedes-Benz Citaro Bi-Articulated

bus in France

Guided bus
Guided bus - A bus that is guided on rails like a train but
is used on normal streets. Often it can also be used like a
normal bus.

A Mercedes-Benz O 405 N guided

bus in Mannheim, Germany

Neighbourhood bus
Neighbourhood bus - It is like a school bus or a taxi, It
goes around small streets.

A Neighbourhood bus in Osnabrück,

Germany

Training bus
Training bus - A bus that is used for new drivers to practice with. It might not be safe for
passengers and might have been changed so a teacher can easily help the new driver.
 A Plaxton Pointer 2 bodied TransBus
Dart single-decker Training bus in the
United Kingdom

Gyrobus
Gyrobus - A special bus which does not use a normal
engine. It has a big flywheel of steel or other materials
(weighing about one ton) rotating at very high speed
(RPM). By rotating at such high speed, the flywheel
stores large amounts of kinetic energy. This big wheel
moves the wheels of the bus. At special stations, electric
engines accelerate the flywheel so the bus can still run.
There are not many buses of this kind because they are
very expensive. A Gyrobus G3 gyrobus in Ostend,
Belgium

Hybrid bus
Hybrid bus - A bus that has two engines, for example a
fuel engine and an electric engine.

A Orion VII Hybrid bus in New York,

United States of America

Police bus
Police bus - A bus or coach that is used by the police to transport a large number of
policemen. These are used for crowd control, sports events, political gatherings,
demonstrations and riots.
 A MAN Lion's Coach police coach in
Copenhagen, Denmark

Offroad bus
Offroad bus - A bus that is made to be used beyond
normal roads, often used by the Army.

A KamAZ-43114 offroad bus in

Kotlas, Russia

Open top bus

An open top bus is a double-decker or single-decker bus, which
has been built without a roof or has had the roof removed. Some
open top buses have half a roof at the front and some do not have
one at all. Open top buses are usually used on tourist and
sightseeing services. It is mainly found in tourist centres such as
New York City, Hong Kong and United Kingdom.

References
A East Lancs Lolyne bodied Volvo
B10M open-top double-decker bus in
Other websites Louvre Palace, France
Media related to Buses at Wikimedia Commons

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