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Top 25 Bus design consultancies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 85 bus design consultancies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 788 professional contacts across them, including 178 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers bus design consultancies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 27, 2026.
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 design consultancies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Driving our future Optare have almost a century of expertise in using the latest technologies in bus design and manufacturing to deliver the vehicles of today and tomorrow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Velocity Transport Planning was established by Jonathan Howard and Lloyd Bush, together they have over 40 years of transport planning and highways experience, in both the public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Markides Associates is a growing consultancy of transport planners and traffic engineers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Specialist consultancy providing solutions for the future of mobility Infinitive Group was founded in order to drive our passion for innovative, creative and forward-thinking…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Caneparo Associates is an independent transport planning and highway design consultancy based in central London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connect Consultants are leading transport planners and highways engineers, renowned for our technical expertise, honesty, and trustworthiness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mistral Group, incorporating Mistral Bus and Coach, Mistral Asset Finance, Mistral Specialist Vehicles and The Bus Shop is one of the leading suppliers of service buses to the UK…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ADL Traffic and Highways Engineering Ltd was formed in 1996 to provide traffic and transportation consultancy services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the UK’s foremost distributor of OEM parts and components for the bus and coach sector, Imperial Engineering supplies a huge range of parts sourced directly from leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GKW has more than 50 years experience in a complex field of busbar engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Focus Transport Planning is a specialist transportation planning consultancy, providing client-focussed advice to the development industry and local authorities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sands Engineering Consultancy is a multidisciplinary design consultancy specialising in the integrated design of highways, transport, urban development and regeneration schemes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vectura Advisory works across the public transport sector including transport authorities, operators, suppliers, regulators and professional services firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acstro Ltd is a transport planning consultancy that specialises in assisting developers in achieving planning permission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Blackpool Design Coachbuilders are specialists in bus & coach conversion, refurbishment and repairs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an independent Transport and Highways Consultancy, committed to providing an end-to-end service, supporting clients with all aspects of transport planning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We were founded in 2014 by Stephen Good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transport & Sponsorship Consultancy providing clients with Commercial Advice & Support, Sponsorship, 5 Case Business Models, Major Projects Health & Assurance Reviews and Training…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Odyssey Consulting Engineers offers a specialised transport and infrastructure design consultancy service to the development industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialists in bus safety Birmingham Busworks grew from the bodywork division of The Green Bus, an independent bus operator in Birmingham.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transultant is you preferred transport consultancy choice for all your transport support needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McGregor Traffic Solutions Ltd (MTS) is an independent transport planning consultancy, based in Central Scotland, addressing a wide range of commissions in both the private and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 30 years, we’ve been committed to helping bus operators and local authorities improve the commercial, financial and operational performance of their organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IMA TRANSPORT PLANNING LIMITED is a Transport Planning and Civil Engineering Consultancy based in Bath, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LOCALBUS (UK) LIMITED is a consumer services company based out of 1A BLAKE ROAD WEST BRIDGFORD, NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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 design consultancies. 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 design consultancies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of bus design consultancies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name bus design consultancies. 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 design consultancies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 85 companies.
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 design consultancies, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “bus design consultancies”. 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 design consultancies), 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 design consultancies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 178 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 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 design consultancies, 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 design consultancies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 85 bus design consultancies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Optare PLC, headquartered in Sherburn In Elmet Sherburn In Elmet, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most bus design consultancies?
London leads with 22 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (4) and Blackpool (2).
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 178 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 85 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 27, 2026.
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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.
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