SIC 4131 Intercity and Rural Bus Transportation

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SIC 4131
INTERCITY AND RURAL BUS TRANSPORTATION

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in furnishing bus transportation, over regular routes and on regular schedules. The transportation is principally outside a single municipality, outside one group of contiguous municipalities, and outside a single municipality and its suburban areas. Charter bus transportation services are classified in SIC 4141: Local Bus Charter Service and SIC 4142: Bus Charter Service, Except Local.

NAICS Code(s)

485210 (Interurban and Rural Bus Lines)

Industry Snapshot

Intercity and rural bus transportation appears to be a declining industry. According to the Department of Transportation, only 15 companies were providing regular route intercity bus service, and only one carrier, Greyhound, maintained a national network in 2003, compared to 143 intercity bus companies in existence in 1960. The corresponding decrease in passenger miles was largely due to competition from private automobiles, Amtrak, and the airlines, which offered greater speed and convenience at a comparable price. The number of locations served by intercity bus lines also declined, totaling about 4,000 in 2002fewer than half the number served in the early 1980s.

Organization and Structure

For years, Greyhound has dominated the intercity and rural bus transportation industry. The carrier's position was secured in 1987 when Greyhound acquired Trailways, the nation's second largest bus line. That purchase left Greyhound the only bus line in the United States with routes covering the entire country. In the early 2000s, a handful Class I bus companies (companies with average revenues of $5.3 million over a three-year period) competed with Greyhound to provide regular route intercity bus service regionally. Greyhound accommodated about 58 percent of the industry's passengers in 1995, as compared to the next three largest carriers, which together carried only about 28 percent of intercity bus passengers.

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