Bus

A bus is a motor vehicle built to carry significantly more passengers than an ordinary car or van but fewer than a train, used chiefly for scheduled public transit and also for charter, tourism and private hire, with capacities typically between 30 and 100 passengers though some articulated designs carry up to around 300. The word derives from the Latin omnibus, meaning for all, and the type descends from horse-drawn omnibuses, which began regular service in Nantes, France in 1823 under the corn-mill owner Stanislas Baudry; steam-powered buses followed in the 1830s, electric trolleybuses arrived in 1882, and the first internal-combustion buses appeared in 1895. Modern buses take many forms, including single-deck rigid buses, double-deckers, articulated bendy buses, midibuses and minibuses, low-floor accessible designs, and long-distance coaches fitted with premium amenities, and propulsion now increasingly includes hybrid, battery-electric, fuel-cell and compressed-natural-gas systems alongside diesel.