Nationally, 26 million children in the U.S. take 480,000 buses to and from school each day.
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Type C: This is the most common school bus on the road and is considered the traditional school bus. Its conventional design is a flat chassis with a gross weight rating typically ranging between 23500 lb to 29500 lb. The bus is designed to carry 90 passengers.
The number of passenger trips in 2022, reported by public transit authorities in the U.S., reached almost 6.19 billion. In 2020, the travel restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic deeply affected transit ridership, which fell from nearly 10 billion in 2019 to under five billion that year.
For years, school districts in a number of states have been charging parents for transportation as a convenience if they live within a certain distance from school, often two miles or less. Those who live farther away traditionally have gotten free bus service.
That breaks down to 5,269 battery electric buses and 211 fuel-cell electric buses. In 2021, there were 3,168 full-size transit battery electric buses and 129 fuel-cell electric buses. So even though fuel-cell electric buses are vastly outnumbered by battery electric buses, the former increased by 64% in 2022.
The United States. In general, most American transit systems expect their buses to have a useful life of 12 years and 250,000 miles. This time frame is due to the fact that, after their buses have been around for 12 years, they are eligible to receive replacement bus funding from the federal government.