Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Bus operating companies based in Brazil
RevenueBase identified 336 bus operating companies headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 22,582 professional contacts across them, including 1,312 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.
This list covers bus operating companies headquartered in Brazil, 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.
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 operating companies based in Brazil
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 1,353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uma empresa sólida nasce da combinação entre espírito empreendedor, pessoas e tecnologia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,067 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A São Paulo Transporte (SPTrans) é a denominação adotada em 8 de março de 1995 para a autarquia municipal que tem por finalidade a gestão do sistema de transporte público por…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 972 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Sambaíba se originou do sistema interligado que vigora na cidade de São Paulo atualmente, o sistema é divido em oito áreas da cidade, oito cores diferentes (verde-claro…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 758 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Em agosto de 1992 nasceu a Expresso Guanabara.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 607 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Auto Viação Urubupungá é uma empresa prestadora de serviços de transporte urbano de passageiros, dirigida pelo atual grupo acionista desde 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 480 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Viação Garcia nasceu em 1934, simultaneamente com o município de Londrina, e cresceu no ritmo acelerado que impulsionou o desenvolvimento do Norte do Paraná, transportando…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa especializada em transporte rodoviário de passageiros e encomendas, com sede em São José do Rio Preto e atendendo vários estados do país.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 431 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Com mais de 80 anos de atuação, somos uma das mais importantes empresas de transporte na região Sudeste, referência nas linhas municipal, intermunicipal e interestadual.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 316 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa de transporte público coletivo de passageiros da Cidade de São Paulo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sou uma empresa gaúcha, especialista no segmento de Transportes de Passageiros e Encomendas, prezo pela excelência, baseada nas premissas: segurança, conforto, qualidade no…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos uma empresa nos seguimento de transportes rodoviários, que atua a mais de 50 anos no mercado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 09 de fevereiro de 2002, a Vega S/A é uma operadora de transporte público urbano, de capital privado e com fins lucrativos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Viação Metrópole Paulista é uma empresa dedicada a fornecer serviços de transporte coletivo eficientes e confiáveis na cidade de São Paulo, a maior metrópole do Brasil, para…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Desde 24 de novembro de 2007, a Via Verde Transportes Coletivos Ltda presta serviço de transporte coletivo urbano na cidade de Manaus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Via Sudeste Transportes S.A (Antiga Via Sul Transportes Urbanos Ltda.) está presente no setor de transporte coletivo urbano de passageiro desde 20 de julho de 2001.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A também conhecida pelo nome fantasia de “Brasileiro” originou-se a partir de Aluyr Tassizo Carletto, até então madeireiro, que veio do Espírito Santo com sua esposa e filhos para…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rápido Araguaia is an executive office company based out of 260 R.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Com sede na cidade Uberlândia (MG), desde 1997 oferecemos a mais alta qualidade em serviços de transportes rodoviários, trabalhando com agilidade e segurança para os nossos…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 2005, a JTP Transportes é uma empresa brasileira com um propósito claro: oferecer os melhores serviços de transporte, garantindo excelência e quebrando paradigmas no…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atuando há 50 anos no ramo do transporte rodoviário, a Viação Motta foi fundada em 31 de Março de 1967, na cidade de Presidente Prudente/SP, com a missão de transportar pessoas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Viação Cidade de Caieiras é uma empresa prestadora de serviços de transporte urbano de passageiros, dirigida pelo atual grupo acionista desde 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Transportadora Globo é uma empresa de transporte urbano de passageiros que atua no município do Recife.” 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 operating companies. 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 operating companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of bus operating companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name bus operating companies. 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 operating companies based in Brazil at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 336 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 operating companies, 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 Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “bus operating companies”. 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 operating companies), 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 operating companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil 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, 1,312 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.
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 operating companies, 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 operating companies are there based in Brazil?
RevenueBase identified 336 bus operating companies headquartered in Brazil 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?
Auto Viação 1001 Ltda, headquartered in Rio De Janeiro, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most bus operating companies?
Sao Paulo leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Rio De Janeiro (11) and Belo Horizonte (9).
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 1,312 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 336 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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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.