Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Bus Services

A bus (or omnibus or autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat more passengers than a minivan. Buses are the most widely used public transport, although they are also used in tourism and as private transport. They can carry anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers.
The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses. A more luxurious version of the bus is the coach. Buses are usually powered by a diesel engine, although early buses were horse drawn and there were experiments with steam propulsion. Trolleybuses use power drawn from overhead power lines. In common with the car industry bus manufacturing is increasingly a globalised activity, with the same design of bus appearing on roads around the world.

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