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What is the United States market-size (TAM) for bus and minibus transportation companies with more than 100 owned vehicles?
Hello! Thanks for your question about bus and minibus transportation companies in the US with more than 100 owned vehicles. The short answer is that there are 194 companies in the US that meet your criteria, with just 22 of these private.
Below you will find a deep dive of my findings.
FINDINGS
To answer this question I took a general search to determine whether this information was easily available anywhere, and the best resource I could find was the National Transit Database from the Federal Transit Administration.
Although this only provides data up to 2015, this should be the most reliable resource for what you are seeking, and I don't imagine there is likely to be much movement at the 100+ vehicle level (Vehicles Operated in Maximum Service - VOMS) in terms of company closures/mergers, etc.
If you want to look at the raw data that lists all transit companies in the United States, it can be found here.
I've subsequently cleaned the data up in this Google spreadsheet for easier analysis/interpretation. For bus companies that currently don't have any fleet information, I attempted to fill this out by researching the companies specifically, and left my sources for the updated information in a subsequent column.
In terms secondary markets, I wasn't able to find any information specifically about this; however, there certainly are lots of examples of transit companies that are providing services on behalf of another public entity (you can see this information in the spreadsheet), for example a transit authority on behalf of a municipality.
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, based on the data provided by the National Transit Database, there are 194 bus companies in the US with 100 vehicles or more. Of these, just 22 are private companies. I highly recommend that you review the raw data that I provided as well as the cleaned-up version, as I think both of them will provide useful additional information for your business venture.
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