{"id":5615,"date":"2025-02-03T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acea.auto\/?post_type=facts&#038;p=5615"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:22:51","slug":"fact-sheet-buses","status":"publish","type":"facts","link":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/fact\/fact-sheet-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact sheet: buses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"intro block-container\"><p>Buses are the most widely used means of public transport in the EU. Buses improve social inclusion, by providing access to education, employment, and healthcare \u2013 including the elderly, disabled, and the economically disadvantaged. Buses also have the lowest carbon footprint per passenger of any form of motorised transport. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cntnt block-container\">\n<p><strong>Top five insights<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Buses account for well over half of EU public transport journeys&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Almost 16% of EU bus sales are electrically chargeable\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The average age of buses on EU roads is 12.5 years\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are 44 bus assembly plants in Europe\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are more than 720,000 buses on EU roads today\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the bigger picture on buses in our fact sheet below.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"attch block-container\"><div class=\"download-buttons full-list\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/files\/ACEA_buses_fact_sheet_Feb2025.pdf\" class=\"btn has-file-icon\">ACEA buses fact sheet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div>\n<div class=\"acea-widget someTypeofwidget\"><h2 class=\"widget-title\"><\/h2><div class=\"widget-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","priority-tags":[764,831,820,738,832,763,778,798,815,813,800,817,819,829,830,792,795,761],"vehicles":[851,839,837],"class_list":["post-5615","facts","type-facts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","priority-tags-alternatively-powered-vehicles","priority-tags-production-of-vehicles","priority-tags-exports-of-vehicles","priority-tags-green-clean","priority-tags-registrations-of-vehicles","priority-tags-diesel","priority-tags-smart-efficient","priority-tags-public-transport","priority-tags-consumer-demand","priority-tags-global-competitive","priority-tags-urban-mobility","priority-tags-vehicle-fleet","priority-tags-international-trade","priority-tags-manufacturing-footprint","priority-tags-market-and-economy","priority-tags-mobility-solutions","priority-tags-transport-policy","priority-tags-powertrain-options","vehicles-all-vehicles","vehicles-commercial-vehicles","vehicles-buses"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facts"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52444,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facts\/5615\/revisions\/52444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"priority-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-tags?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"vehicles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acea.auto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vehicles?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}