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Top 25 Bus operator based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 266 bus operator headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 4,527 professional contacts across them, including 1,980 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.
This list covers bus operator headquartered in Germany, 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 operator based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 725 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vielfältig.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (KVB) ist eines der größten öffentlichen Verkehrsunternehmen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Rheinbahn ist weit mehr als ein Nahverkehrsunternehmen – wir sind das verbindende Element einer ganzen Region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft gehört mit bis zu Fahrgästen täglich, 2.300 Mitarbeiter*innen und fast 400 eigenen Bussen, Straßen- und U-Bahnen zu den großen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “vhh.mobility ist mit Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern aus über 60 Nationen und 800 Omnibussen an 17 Standorten die drittgrößte kommunale Busbetreiberin Deutschlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH ist die ebenso traditionsreiche wie zukunftsorientierte Betreiberin des Öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs in Hessens Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Autobus Oberbayern Gruppe ist eines der größten Busunternehmen in Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rostocker Straßenbahn AG (RSAG) is the largest public transport company in Rostock.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind die WVG-Gruppe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BVB.net – The Bus Company Wenn Menschen ein gemeinsames Ziel haben, ebnen wir ihnen den Weg dorthin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Die In-der-City-Bus GmbH, kurz ICB, macht Frankfurt mobil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Elite Traffic GmbH mit Sitz in Hamburg steht seit über 90 Jahren für hohe Professionalität in der Personenbeförderung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ecoVista ist eine innovative und wachsende Unternehmensgruppe in der Busbranche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der Potsdamer Verkehrsbetrieb bringt jährlich rund 35 Millionen Fahrgäste in Bewegung.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als 100%iges Tochterunternehmen der städtischen Monheimer Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH behauptet sich die Bahnen der Stadt Monheim GmbH (BSM) nicht nur erfolgreich im…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH (BSVG) ist mit rund 700 Mitarbeitenden der zweitgrößte ÖPNV-Dienstleister in Niedersachsen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wenn rund 1100 HOCHBAHN-Busse ihre 1,2 Mio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit rund 200 Bussen und über 300 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern sind wir auf über 50 Buslinien unterwegs im Oberbergischen Kreis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WIR BEWEGEN MENSCHEN - Moderne Unternehmenskultur - attraktive Vergütung - bunte Vielfalt an Menschen - klimafreundliche Mission Von Hürth aus setzen wir unsere gesamte Flotte in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir bewegen Koblenz!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Omnibusvermietung seit 1990 in Berlin aktiv mit Fahrzeugen von 8 bis 69 Plätzen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sonnenschein Personenbeförderung GmbH is a transportation/trucking/railroad company based out of Güterstraße, Wuppertal, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mit 350 Mitarbeitern und 120 Bussen auf 62 Linien verbinden wir die Region Barnim und sind führend in der Bus-E-Mobilität.” 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 operator. 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 operator.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of bus operator, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name bus operator. 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 operator based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 266 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 operator, 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 Germany whose own description of what they do matches “bus operator”. 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 operator), 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 operator, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 1,980 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 operator, 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 operator are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 266 bus operator headquartered in Germany 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?
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most bus operator?
Hamburg leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (6) and Munchen (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 1,980 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 266 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.