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A bus is a large road vehicle designed to carry numerous passengers in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. The name is a shortened version of Latin omnibus, which means "for everyone."
The omnibus, the first organized public transport system, may have originated in Nantes, France in 1826, when Stanislas Baudry, a retired army officer who had built public baths (run from the surplus heat from his flour mill) on the city's edge, set up a short stage line between the center of town and his baths. The service started on the Place du Commerce, outside the hat shop of M. Omnès, who displayed the motto Omnès Omnibus ("Omnès for all") on his shopfront. When Baudry discovered that passengers were just as interested in getting off at intermediate points as in patronizing his baths, he shifted the stage line's focus. His new voiture omnibus ("carriage for all") combined the functions of the hired hackney carriage with the stagecoach that travelled a predetermined route from inn to inn, carrying passengers and mail. His omnibus featured wooden benches that ran down the sides of the vehicle; entry was from the rear.
There is also a claim from the UK where in 1824 John Greenwood operated the first "bus route" from Market Street in Manchester to Pendleton in Salford (Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport: Public Transport in Greater Manchester.)
– One full double-decker bus uses four times LESS energy to transport one person than in a full car.[1]
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Types of buses:
- Commuter Bus (a.k.a. Local transit bus or City bus)
- School bus
- Trolleybuses and other electric buses.
- Parking lot trams.
- Motorcoaches, also known as intercity coaches.
- Tour coaches.
- Short-distance tour buses.
- Minibuses .
- Midibuses, or mid-sized buses.
- Parking lot trams.
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