Bus | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-10-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus


00:01:22 1 Name
00:02:50 2 History
00:02:58 2.1 Steam buses
00:03:58 2.2 Trolleybuses
00:05:25 2.3 Motor buses
00:07:35 3 Types
00:08:52 4 Design
00:09:01 4.1 Accessibility
00:09:50 4.2 Configuration
00:10:31 4.3 Guidance
00:11:03 4.4 Liveries
00:11:35 4.5 Propulsion
00:12:14 4.6 Dimensions
00:12:40 5 Manufacture
00:14:09 6 Uses
00:14:18 6.1 Public transport
00:14:56 6.2 Tourism
00:17:18 6.3 Student transport
00:18:18 6.4 Private charter
00:20:33 6.5 Private ownership
00:21:57 6.6 Promotion
00:23:18 6.7 Goods transport
00:23:37 7 Around the world
00:25:26 7.1 Bus expositions
00:26:02 8 Use of retired buses
00:27:46 8.1 Bus preservation
00:28:57 9 Modification as railway vehicles



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A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-deck rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses while coaches are used for longer-distance services. Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus do not charge a fare. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers require a special licence above and beyond a regular driver's licence.
Buses may be used for scheduled bus transport, scheduled coach transport, school transport, private hire, or tourism; promotional buses may be used for political campaigns and others are privately operated for a wide range of purposes, including rock and pop band tour vehicles.
Horse-drawn buses were used from the 1820s, followed by steam buses in the 1830s, and electric trolleybuses in 1882. The first internal combustion engine buses, or motor buses, were used in 1895. Recently, interest has been growing in hybrid electric buses, fuel cell buses, and electric buses, as well as buses powered by compressed natural gas or biodiesel. As of the 2010s, bus manufacturing is increasingly globalised, with the same designs appearing around the world.