Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Bus operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 5,793 bus operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 243,347 professional contacts across them, including 47,123 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. Brazil is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers bus operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026. Country and city lists for bus operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest bus operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17,124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The RATP Group is the world's third largest public transport company, carrying 12 million people every day in France and around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,742 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Toronto Transit Commission has a rich history dating back to 1921.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,718 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keolis is a global leader in the shared mobility market and a committed partner to public transport authorities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,096 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’re Stagecoach – the UK’s largest bus and coach operator, proudly connecting over 100 towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,989 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MV Transportation is a leading transit services provider in the United States, partnering with over 100 transit agencies and municipalities, schools and corporations nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,791 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At DSB we realize that job satisfaction is infectious.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,690 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arriva is the leading passenger transport operator in Europe, employing around 36,200 people and delivering 1.5 billion passenger journeys each year, with businesses across 11…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,578 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As an operator and global integrator of mobility, Transdev – The mobility company – empowers freedom to move every day thanks to safe, reliable and innovative solutions that serve…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,468 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, often referred to as the MBTA or simply The T, is the public operator of most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,045 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acercar a las personas a vivir una mejor ciudad, es nuestro desafío permanente porque entendemos que las expectativas y las necesidades de las personas son diversas y están en…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,807 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Lijn brengt dagelijks honderdduizenden reizigers naar hun bestemming.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,723 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the #1 public transport Company in Italy, the historical operator of the network in the Milan metropolitan area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,438 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your Gateway To Efficient Transport Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Con más de cien años de experiencia y una vocación de innovación permanente, Alsa es la organización líder en el sector español de transporte de viajeros por carretera.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) és la principal empresa gestora del transport públic de l'àrea metropolitana de Barcelona.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,058 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KiwiRail is proud to be the backbone of New Zealand’s integrated transport network as well as one of the country’s biggest tourism operators and most significant property owners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,826 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nobina är Sveriges äldsta och Nordens största företag för kollektivtrafik med buss.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,714 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Daimler Buses GmbH is Daimler Truck AG's largest European subsidiary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há 73 anos, a Auto Viação 1001 é referência no transporte rodoviário de passageiros, especialmente no Rio de Janeiro, berço e estado em que concentra a maior parte de suas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,636 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Für Berlin ist die BVG als viertgrößter Arbeitgeber & größter kommunaler Betrieb Deutschlands unersetzlich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,514 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Working at TriMet means making connections.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,444 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Openbaar vervoer waar je op kunt vertrouwen, dat is waar wij ons hard voor maken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “V/Line is connecting our communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,401 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the largest operating company in the integrated TransLink enterprise, Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) operates more than 96 per cent of the Metro Vancouver region’s bus…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,379 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About New Flyer: New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE™ brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: bus operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names bus operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of bus operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name bus operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Bus operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among bus operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 28 countries, largest first: Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, India, Australia, the Netherlands and 18 more. Country and city lists for bus operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “bus operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names bus operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among bus operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 47,123 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Bus operators by location
29 lists · largest firstEvery Bus operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Bus operators based in Brazil860
- Bus operators based in the United Kingdom809
- Bus operators based in the United States598
- Bus operators based in Italy493
- Bus operators based in Germany460
- Bus operators based in France430
- Bus operators based in Spain294
- Bus operators based in India232
- Bus operators based in Australia212
- Bus operators based in the Netherlands151
- Bus operators based in Canada145
- Bus operators based in Türkiye131
- Bus operators based in Poland110
- Bus operators based in Sweden97
- Bus operators based in the United Arab Emirates88
- Bus operators based in Chile79
- Bus operators based in Switzerland74
- Bus operators based in Mexico68
- Bus operators based in Belgium63
- Bus operators based in Portugal61
- Bus operators based in Denmark58
- Bus operators based in Norway56
- Bus operators based in Ireland48
- Bus operators based in South Africa46
- Bus operators based in New Zealand34
- Bus operators based in Czechia33
- Bus operators based in Finland33
- Bus operators based in Austria30
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names bus operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many bus operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 5,793 bus operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ratpgroup, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most bus operators?
Brazil leads with 860 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (809) and the United States (598). Every bus operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most bus operators?
Sao Paulo leads with 85 headquartered companies, followed by London (64) and Dubai (46).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 47,123 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,793 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.