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Top 25 Bus operating companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 221 bus operating companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 38,944 professional contacts across them, including 7,821 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers bus operating companies headquartered in the United States, 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 the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,406 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America's largest transportation network, serving a population of 15.3 million people in the area fanning out from New York City…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 3,578 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 4 | 3,468 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 5 | 1,514 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Working at TriMet means making connections.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 937 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Make a difference with a career at Metro Transit!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 789 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keolis is a leading provider of passenger transportation services throughout the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 778 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1997, Student Transportation of America operates more than vehicles throughout the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 603 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Keolis is a global leader in public transport operations, management and innovation with partners in 16 countries around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 510 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1924 as MASTCO by the visionary Ruth Mutter, DATTCO has evolved into a third generation DeVivo family enterprise within the transportation industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX) provides public transportation services for Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 261 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Krapf Group is a family-owned and operated transportation business established in 1942, by George Krapf, Jr, to provide pupil transportation for the local municipalities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Regional Transit Service (RTS) is a regional transit authority established by New York State with more than employees who proudly serve customers and business partners in Monroe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Easton Coach Company is a leader in passenger ground transportation, providing unmatched motorcoach and transit services throughout the eastern United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Intercity Transit is a municipal corporation that provides public transportation for people who live and work in Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, and Yelm, an area of approximately 94…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At CoachAmerica, we don't just move people, we move possibility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Apple Bus Company is a transportation services provider with headquarters in Cleveland, Missouri and operations in seven states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kitsap Transit has been operating friendly, convenient public transit since 1983.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1933, Peter Pan Bus Lines has been a leader in intercity bus transportation for over 90 years, dedicated to delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective travel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) was created in 1970 by the New York State Legislature as a public benefit corporation to provide regional transportation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Storer is dedicated to providing premier transit services to each and every client through elevated standards of performance in the areas of safety, maintenance, customer service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Martz Group, founded in 1908, is a 5th generation, family owned and operated transportation company with headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trinity Transportation prides themselves as one of the most innovative ground transportation specialists in the industry, offering a full line of services including motor coaches…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Regional Transit Authority gets people moving around New Orleans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For almost a century, Suffolk Transportation Services, Inc,has come a long way.” 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 the United States at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 221 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 the United States 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 United States 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, 7,821 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 the United States?
RevenueBase identified 221 bus operating companies headquartered in the United States 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?
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most bus operating companies?
New York leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Minneapolis (4) and Orlando (4).
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 7,821 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 221 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.