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An intercity bus service (North American English) or intercity coach service (British English and Commonwealth English), also called a long-distance, express, over-the-road, commercial, long-haul, or highway bus or coach service, is a public transport service using coaches to carry passengers significant distances between different cities, towns, or other populated areas.^[1]

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Types of bus service

AC power plugs and sockets

AC power plugs and sockets connect devices to mains electricity to supply them with electrical power.

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Advertising

Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.

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Airline

An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and/or freight.

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Airliner

An airliner is a type of airplane for transporting passengers and air cargo.

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Airolo

Airolo (Airöö in Lombard, in Iriel) is a municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

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Alberta

Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland.

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American Bus Association

The American Bus Association (ABA) serves as a trade association for motorcoach operators and tour companies operating in the United States and Canada.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Andermatt

Andermatt (italic) is a mountain village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.

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Ankara

Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Arriva

Arriva plc is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, England.

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Assen

Assen is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital of the province of Drenthe.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Automotive industry in China

The automotive industry in mainland China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008.

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Aviation in Indonesia

Aviation in Indonesia serves as a critical means of connecting the thousands of islands throughout the archipelago.

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Axle

An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.

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Bandar Seri Begawan

Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB; Jawi) is the capital and largest city of Brunei.

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BC Bus North

BC Bus North is a public intercity bus service created by the Province of British Columbia after Greyhound Canada cancelled all services in British Columbia, leaving the Highway 16 and Highway 97 corridors without passenger transportation options.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Bellinzona

Bellinzona (Ticinese Belinzóna; Bellinzone; Bellenz; Blizuna) is a municipality, a historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

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BlaBlaBus

BlaBlaCar bus, formerly BlaBlaBus, Ouibus or iDBUS, operates coach services in Europe.

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BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is an online marketplace for carpooling headquartered in Paris.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.

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Bodø

Bodø (Bådåddjo, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway, with a population of approx.

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BoltBus

BoltBus was an intercity bus common carrier and a division of Greyhound Lines that operated from March 2008 until July 2021 in the northeast and western United States and British Columbia, Canada.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Brake

A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system.

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Brig

A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British English

British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.

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Brunei

Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.

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Bus

A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.

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Bus Éireann

Bus Éireann ("Irish Bus") is a state-owned bus and coach operator providing services throughout Ireland, with the exception of Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area, where bus services are provided by sister company Dublin Bus.

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Bus driver

A bus driver, bus operator, or bus captain is a person who drives buses for a living.

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Bus station

A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers.

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Bus stop

A bus stop is a place where buses stop for passengers to get on and off the bus.

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Business

Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.

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Charabanc

A charabanc or "char-à-banc" (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach, usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century.

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Chiavenna

Chiavenna (Ciavèna; Clavenna; Clavenna or Claven; archaic Cläven or Kleven) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.

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Chinatown bus lines

Chinatown bus lines are discount intercity bus services in the United States, often operated by Chinese Americans, primarily Fujianese.

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Chinatown, Boston

Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: Tong4jan4gaai1) is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Chinatown, Manhattan

Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.

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Chinatown, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Coach (bus)

A coach (also known as a coach bus, motorcoach or parlor coach) is a type of bus built for longer-distance service, in contrast to transit buses that are typically used within a single metropolitan region.

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Coach Canada

Coach Canada is the Canadian affiliate of Coach USA.

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Coaching inn

The coaching inn (also coaching house or staging inn) was a vital part of Europe's inland transport infrastructure until the development of the railway, providing a resting point (layover) for people and horses.

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Coachway interchange

A coachway interchange (also transitway station, busway station) is a stopping place for express coach services near the trunk road/motorway road network.

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Commuting

Commuting is periodically recurring travel between a place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a commuter, leaves the boundary of their home community.

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Competition (economics)

In economics, competition is a scenario where different economic firmsThis article follows the general economic convention of referring to all actors as firms; examples in include individuals and brands or divisions within the same (legal) firm.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.

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County

A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Daewoo Express

Daewoo Express is an inter-city common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 60 destinations in Pakistan.

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Davos

Davos (or; help; Old Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

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Deutsche Bundesbahn

The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG).

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Deutsche Bundespost

The was a German state-run postal service and telecommunications business founded in 1947.

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Dili

Dili (Portuguese and Tetum: Díli) is the capital and largest city of East Timor.

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Disaster

A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings, economies, or the environment, and the affected community cannot handle it alone.

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Domodossola

Domodossola (Lombard: Dòm) is a city and comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy.

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Dordrecht

Dordrecht, historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland.

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Double-decker bus

A double-decker bus or double-deck bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks.

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Drachten

Drachten is a town in the northern Netherlands.

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DRL Coachlines

DRL Coachlines is a motor coach bus company operating in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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East Java

East Java (Jawa Timur, Jawi Wetan, Jhâbâ Tèmor) is a province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island.

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East Timor

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco. The western half of the island of Timor is administered by Indonesia.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Effect of low-cost airlines on communities

The effect, often referred to as "the Southwest effect", is the increase in airline travel originating from a community after service to and from that community is inaugurated by Southwest Airlines, or any similar airline that improves service or lowers cost.

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Egged (company)

Egged Transportation Ltd (אֶגֶד) is the largest transit bus company in Israel.

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Emmeloord

Emmeloord is the administrative centre of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands.

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Emmen, Netherlands

Emmen is a municipality and town of the province of Drenthe in the northeastern Netherlands.

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English in the Commonwealth of Nations

The use of the English language in current and former member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was largely inherited from British colonisation, with some exceptions.

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Eric Geddes

Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (26 September 1875 – 22 June 1937) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fauske

or is a municipality located in Nordland county, Norway.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Finnmark

Finnmark (Finnmárku; Finmarkku; Finnmark; Финнмарк) is a county in the northern part of Norway.

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Flüelen

Flüelen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.

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FlixBus

FlixBus (styled FLiXBUS) is a German brand that offers low-cost intercity bus services via 400,000 routes to over 5,000 destinations in more than 40 countries in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Fresno, California

Fresno is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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GO Transit bus services

GO Transit bus services are provided throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

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Gorinchem

Gorinchem, also spelled Gorkum, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Greyhound Canada

Greyhound Canada Transportation ULC (Greyhound Canada) was an intercity coach service that began as a local British Columbia bus line in the early 1920s, expanded across most of Canada, and became a subsidiary of the US Greyhound in 1940.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Greyhound UK

Greyhound UK was a low-cost intercity scheduled coach service in the United Kingdom owned by FirstGroup.

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Groningen

Groningen (Grunn or Grunnen) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Harlingen, Netherlands

Harlingen (Harns) is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland.

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Harold James Dyos

Harold James Dyos (1921–1978) was a British historian, known for his contributions to urban history.

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Head-on collision

A head-on collision is a traffic collision where the front ends of two vehicles such as cars, trains, ships or planes hit each other when travelling in opposite directions, as opposed to a side collision or rear-end collision.

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Hibbing, Minnesota

Hibbing is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

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High-floor

High-floor describes the interior flooring of commuter vehicles primarily used in public transport such as trains, light rail cars and other rail vehicles, along with buses and trolleybuses.

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High-speed rail in China

The high-speed rail (HSR) network in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the world's longest and most extensively used – with a total length of by the end of 2023.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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History of rail transport

The history of rail transport began before the beginning of the common era.

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History of road transport

The history of road transport started with the development of tracks by humans and their beasts of burden.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hurtigruten

Hurtigruten, formally Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes ("coastal route Bergen-Kirkenes"), is a Norwegian public coastal route transporting passengers that travel locally, regionally and between the ports of call, and also cargo between ports north of Tromsø.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Intercar

Intercar is the second largest interurban bus carrier within the province of Quebec, Canada, and one of the largest providers of school buses.

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Interliner

Interliner is an express bus system in the Netherlands.

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Interstate 10 in Arizona

In the U.S. state of Arizona, Interstate 10 (I‑10), the major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States Sun Belt, runs east from California, enters Arizona near the town of Ehrenberg and continues through Phoenix and Tucson and exits at the border with New Mexico near San Simon.

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Israel Railways

Israel Railways Ltd. (רַכֶּבֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Rakevet Yisra'el) is the state-owned principal railway company responsible for all inter-city, commuter, and freight rail transport in Israel.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Jember Regency

Jember Regency is a regency of East Java province, in Indonesia.

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JJ Kavanagh and Sons

JJ Kavanagh and Sons is Ireland's largest private coach operator.

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John Palmer (postal innovator)

John Palmer of Bath (1742 – 16 August 1818) was a theatre owner and instigator of the British system of mail coaches that was the beginning of the great British post office reforms with the introduction of an efficient mail coach delivery service in Great Britain during the late 18th century.

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Kempsey bus crash

The Kempsey bus crash killed 35 people and injured 41 on the Pacific Highway near Kempsey, New South Wales on 22 December 1989 when a McCafferty's Coaches coach operating an express service from Brisbane to Sydney collided head on with a Trans City Express coach operating an express service from Sydney to Brisbane.

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KTEL (Greece)

KTEL (Κοινό Ταμείο Εισπράξεων Λεωφορείων, "Common Funds of Bus Proceeds") is the main intercity public transport bus service in Greece.

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Kuching

Kuching, officially the City of Kuching, is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia.

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Kupang

Kupang (Kota Kupang), formerly known as Koepang or Coupang, is the capital of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.

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Lake Como

Lake Como (Lago di Como), also known as Lario, is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of, making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over deep, it is the fifth-deepest lake in Europe and the deepest outside Norway; the bottom of the lake is below sea level.

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Lasta Beograd

Lasta (Ласта, full legal name: Saobraćajno preduzeće Lasta a.d. Beograd) is a Serbian bus company headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Leeuwarden

Leeuwarden (longname /; Town Frisian: Liwwadden; Leeuwarder dialect: Leewarden) is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 127,073 (2023).

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Leith

Leith (Lìte) is a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith.

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Limocar

Limocar is a coach operator in Quebec, Canada.The company was founded in 1979 and operates a fleet of 320 vehicles.

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List of bus operating companies

This is a list of the world's bus operating companies listed by country, with countries placed alphabetically by continent and country.

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Lists of traffic collisions

The following is a list of articles that contain a lists of traffic collisions, or list of people who died in traffic collisions.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Locarno

Locarno (Ticinese: Locarno; formerly in Luggarus) is a southern Swiss town and municipality in the district Locarno (of which it is the capital), located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lugano

Lugano (Lügán) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

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Macadam

Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly.

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Mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.

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Mail coach

A mail coach is a stagecoach that is used to deliver mail.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mals

Mals (Malles Venosta) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano, on the border with Switzerland and Austria.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Maritime Bus

Maritime Bus is a Canadian coach operator based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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Medan

Medan is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra.

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Megabus (Europe)

Megabus is a long-distance intercity coach service operator owned by Scottish Citylink and based in the United Kingdom.

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Megabus (North America)

Megabus is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/Coach Canada operating in the eastern, southern, midwestern, western, and Pacific United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Menaggio

Menaggio (Menas) is a town and comune in the province of Como, Lombardy, northern Italy, located on the western shore of Lake Como at the mouth of the river Senagra.

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Miner

A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

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Multi-axle bus

A multi-axle bus is a bus or coach that has more than the conventional two axles (known as a twin-axle bus), usually three (known as a tri-axle bus), or more rarely, four (known as a quad-axle bus).

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Narvik

Narvik (Áhkanjárga) is the third-largest municipality in Nordland county, Norway, by population.

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National Express Coaches

National Express, also abbreviated NX, is an intercity and inter-regional coach operator providing services throughout Great Britain.

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National Safety Council

The National Safety Council (NSC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public service organization promoting health and safety in the United States.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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North American English

North American English is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.

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North Sumatra

North Sumatra (Sumatera Utara), also called North Sumatra Province, is a province of Indonesia located in the northern part of the island of Sumatra, just south of Aceh.

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Northeast Corridor

The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is an electrified railroad line in the Northeast megalopolis of the United States.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services

Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services is an intercity bus service operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a Crown agency of the government of Ontario, Canada.

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Orléans Express

Orléans Express is a coach operator in Quebec, Canada owned by Keolis Canada.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Overselling

Overselling or overbooking is sale of a volatile good or service in excess of actual supply.

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Pacific Western Transportation

Pacific Western Transportation (also d/b/a P.W. Transportation) provides a variety of bus services in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Yukon.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Railways

Pakistan Railways (پاکستان ریلویز) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan with its headquarters in Lahore.

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Park and ride

A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (rapid transit, light rail, or commuter rail), or carpool for the remainder of the journey.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Perum DAMRI

DAMRI Public Corporation (Perusahaan Umum DAMRI; was Djawatan Angkoetan Motor Repoeblik Indonesia, lit. Motor Transport Enterprise of the Republic of Indonesia) is an Indonesian state-owned bus operator.

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Pontianak

Pontianak or Khuntien is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, founded first as a trading port on the island of Borneo, occupying an area of 118.21 km2 in the delta of the Kapuas River, at a point where it is joined by its major tributary, the Landak River.

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Postal Museum, London

The Postal Museum (formerly the British Postal Museum & Archive) is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust.

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Private sector

The private sector is the part of the economy which is owned by private groups, usually as a means of establishment for profit or non profit, rather than being owned by the government.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Qbuzz

Qbuzz is a public transport company in the Netherlands that operates services in South Holland, Utrecht, Drenthe and Groningen.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Quebec City–Windsor Corridor (Via Rail)

The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor (Ligne de Québec à Windsor), also known as simply the Corridor, is a Via Rail passenger train service in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

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Rail transport in Indonesia

The majority of Indonesia's railways are on Java, used for both passenger and freight transport.

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Rail transport in the Netherlands

Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network which connects nearly all major towns and cities.

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Regency era

The Regency era of British history is commonly described as the years between and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820.

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Ridesharing company

A ridesharing company, ride-hailing service, (the vehicles are called app-taxis or e-taxis) is a company that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike taxis, cannot legally be hailed from the street.

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Road Traffic Act 1930

The Road Traffic Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 43) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced by the Minister of Transport Herbert Morrison.

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Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke (18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Royal Blue Coach Services

Royal Blue Express Services was a coach operator in the south and west of England from 1880 until 1986.

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Saas-Fee

Saas-Fee is the main village in the Saastal, or the Saas Valley, and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Scenic route

A scenic route, tourist road, tourist route, tourist drive, holiday route, theme route, or scenic byway is a specially designated road or waterway that travels through an area of natural or cultural beauty.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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A share taxi (also called shared taxi or taxibus, or jitney in the US) is a mode of transport which falls between a taxicab and a bus.

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Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a city and special economic zone on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, and Macau to the southwest.

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Showroom

A plumbing fixture showroom, Canada, 1921 A showroom is a large space used to display products or show entertainment.

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Simplon Pass

The Simplon Pass (Col du Simplon; Simplonpass; Passo del Sempione; Pass del Sempion;; Pass dal Simplon) is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland.

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SJ AB

SJ (formally SJ AB) is a state-owned passenger train operator in Sweden.

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Sleeper bus

A sleeper bus is a type of specially adapted coach which is designed for the passengers to sleep in.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Splügen

Splügen (Romansh: Spleia, Italian: Spluga) is a former municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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St. Moritz

St.

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Stadskanaal

Stadskanaal is a town and municipality with a population of 32,715 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.

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Stagecoach

A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, diligence) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.

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Suburb

A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.

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The George Inn, Southwark

The George Inn, or The George, is a public house established in the medieval period on Borough High Street in Southwark, London, owned and leased by the National Trust.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Thusis

Thusis (Tosana, Romansh: Tusàn) is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Timor

Timor (Ilha de Timor, Illa Timór, Pulau Timor) is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea.

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Tirano

Tirano (Tiran; Thiran) is a town and comune (municipality) in Valtellina, located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy (northern Italy).

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Town

A town is a type of a human settlement.

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Trailways Transportation System

The Trailways Transportation System is a public transport bus service in the United States.

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Train

A train (from Old French trahiner, from Latin trahere, "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.

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Trans-Java Toll Road

The Trans-Java Toll Road is a tolled expressway network that runs from Port of Merak in Cilegon, the main link between the island of Sumatra and Java, to Banyuwangi, the eastern end of the island in Indonesia and the main link between the island of Java and Bali.

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Transit bus

A transit bus (also big bus, commuter bus, city bus, town bus, urban bus, stage bus, public bus, public transit bus, or simply bus) is a type of bus used in public transport bus services.

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Transport in Indonesia

Indonesia's transport system has been shaped over time by the economic resource base of an archipelago with thousands of islands, and the distribution of its more than 200 million people concentrated mainly on a single island, Java.

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Transport in the United Kingdom

Transport in the United Kingdom is highly facilitated by road, rail, air and water networks.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Turnpike trust

Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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U.S. Route 81

U.S. Route 81 or U.S. Highway 81 (US 81) is a major north–south U.S. highway that extends for in the central United States and is one of the original United States Numbered Highways established in 1926 by the American Association of State Highway Officials.

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Ulsterbus

Ulsterbus is a public transport operator in Northern Ireland and operates bus services outside Belfast.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Via Rail

Via Rail Canada Inc., operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada.

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Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yield management

Yield management is a variable pricing strategy, based on understanding, anticipating and influencing consumer behavior in order to maximize revenue or profits from a fixed, time-limited resource (such as airline seats, hotel room reservations or advertising inventory).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_bus_service

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