Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Passenger bus operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,890 passenger bus operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 145,297 professional contacts across them, including 21,532 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers passenger 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for passenger 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 passenger bus operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,925 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the leading student transportation services provider for school districts in North America, First Student provides the best start and finish to every school day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,690 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,687 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Durham School Services is a full-service student transportation provider, committed to getting students to school safely, on time and ready to learn.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,807 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Lijn brengt dagelijks honderdduizenden reizigers naar hun bestemming.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,515 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our iconic Greyhound buses travel the length and breadth of the United States and Canada, providing regularly scheduled passenger services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,438 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your Gateway To Efficient Transport Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,436 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “V/Line is connecting our communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uma empresa sólida nasce da combinação entre espírito empreendedor, pessoas e tecnologia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,346 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “National Express is the UK’s largest scheduled coach operator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,161 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hello there, we’re First Bus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vi hämtar leriga förskolebarn efter utflykten, ser till att nattsuddarna kommer hem och plockar troget upp arbetspendlarna om mornarna.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transdev ger människor frihet att resa när de vill och hur de vill.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,049 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saudi Public Transport Co.(SAPTCO) was established in 1399 H (1979 G) with a fully paid up capital of SR million to provide public bus transport services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,013 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A dynamic and ambitious company, Metroline is proudly serving one of the world’s busiest cities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 935 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established over 45 years ago, Kinetic has grown to become the largest bus operator in Australia and New Zealand, and a global, multi-modal transport network with operations that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 912 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The leading bus company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 834 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Grupo Senda, the bus company with more tradition in the north of Mexico, has over 80 years of being the best option in passenger transportation services, tourism, package…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 820 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daewoo Express is the first and the biggest foreign investment Company with an advanced and organized network with various international trade links.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 789 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Keolis is a leading provider of passenger transportation services throughout the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: passenger 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 passenger bus operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of passenger bus operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name passenger 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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Passenger bus operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 passenger 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
- Every country. Country and city lists for passenger bus operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “passenger 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 passenger 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 passenger 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, 21,532 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 20, 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.
Passenger bus operators by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Passenger bus operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Passenger bus operators based in the United States589
- Passenger bus operators based in Brazil525
- Passenger bus operators based in Italy270
- Passenger bus operators based in the United Kingdom232
- Passenger bus operators based in France200
- Passenger bus operators based in Germany199
- Passenger bus operators based in Spain181
- Passenger bus operators based in Canada128
- Passenger bus operators based in Australia101
- Passenger bus operators based in India98
- Passenger bus operators based in the Netherlands71
- Passenger bus operators based in Sweden45
- Passenger bus operators based in Mexico37
- Passenger bus operators based in South Africa31
- Passenger bus operators based in Norway25
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 passenger 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 passenger bus operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,890 passenger 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?
First Student, headquartered in Cincinnati, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most passenger bus operators?
The United States leads with 589 companies, followed by Brazil (525) and Italy (270). Every passenger bus operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most passenger bus operators?
Sao Paulo leads with 39 headquartered companies, followed by Dubai (25) and Rio De Janeiro (22).
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 21,532 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,890 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 20, 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.