Bus fleet data & audits

An audit of the London bus contracted fleet is carried out once a year. The data provides the fleet size, respective percentage of the fleet and average age by operator for comparison with previous audits.

This year's fleet size of 8,776 buses represents an increase of 133 buses in comparison to last year's fleet total of 8,643. The number of vehicles in the fleet will change from time to time, as new vehicles enter service and the vehicles they are replacing are decommissioned.

The fleet total includes: 1,397 Electric buses, 1 NRM retrofitted to Electric, 20 Hydrogen and 3,826 Hybrid buses (including 997 new Routemasters).  All vehicles in the fleet are PSVAR compliant.

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Operational vehicle data

  • Transport for London (TfL) is committed to transparency in its operational information and as part of this policy is publishing the details of the contracted London Bus Fleet
  • The data includes the make and model, basic attributes, age and the fuel and emission standards of the vehicle
  • The data is used in summary form by TfL to document how modern and clean the fleet is and how we have adapted purchasing policy to harness the best and most appropriate emission reducing technologies for London
  • This is a snapshot of the contracted bus fleet at the time of publication, based on information provided to us by contracted bus operators
  • Data can be subject to change as we continually strive to improve quality and comprehensiveness, and enhance our internal systems
  • Where a bus route is shown, this is the route the bus was contracted to operate on. As bus operators can (and do) move buses between routes to maintain an effective service, the information cannot be used to work out which buses are operating on a route at any particular date or time
  • There are no plans to provide this data in other formats or more frequently than at the annual fleet audit review
  • Where 'Unknown' is shown in the data set, the value has not been supplied to us or has not been validated

Historic reports