Specifications
Generally, a transit bus will have:
- large and sometimes multiple doors for ease of boarding and exiting
- minimal or no luggage space
- bench or bucket seats, with no coachlike head-rests
- destination blinds / displays such as headsigns or rollsigns or electronic dot matrix/LED signs
- legal standing-passenger capacity
- fare taking/verification equipment
- pull cord or bus stop request button
Modern transit buses are also increasingly being equipped with passenger information systems, multimedia entertainment/advertising, and passenger comforts such as heating and air-conditioning (as opposed to historically where actually necessary). Some industry members and commentators promote the idea of making the interior of a transit bus as inviting as a private car, recognising the chief competitor to the transit bus in most markets.
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