Origined from Qingdao, blossoming everywhere, a brief history of buses in China for a century

As the most common form of public transport in daily life, buses can be seen almost everywhere and are filled with memories for everyone. As early as 1907, China had its first bus line, which ran from downtown Qingdao to Mecklenburg, today's Liushu Terrace in Laoshan District. The cost: per person per person belonging to the government and its affiliated units. 2 Mexican dollars each time, so the buses at that time were not entirely public transportation.

On March 5, 1908, China's first tram ran 6.04 kilometers from Jing'an Temple to the Shanghai General Assembly at Waiyangjing Bridge, now Guangdong Road Bund, officially marking Shanghai's modern public The birth of *** transportation, trams can still be seen in many cities today.

Double-decker buses are representative transportation in some regions. In fact, as early as January 5, 1934, the China Bus Company imported double-decker buses from the United Kingdom. Test runs were carried out, and on April 1, the double-decker bus was officially put into operation on Route 1.

The large-capacity articulated buses that can be seen in some cities were actually introduced by the transportation department as early as the late 1960s in a batch of two-car large-capacity articulated buses. At that time, the Beijing Bus Factory No. 4 and the Beijing Municipal Transportation Bureau Infrastructure Division Passenger Bus Manufacturing Factory converted the Czech "Skoda" brand 706R truck into a BK650 articulated bus, carrying 120 passengers. Because the bus is 14.8 meters long, it is two meters longer than an ordinary bus. times, so people call it the "dragon car".

In the late 1970s, Beijing Bus Factory began to produce the Huanghe brand BK670 bus, which was officially operated in Beijing in 1978. It was not retired until 2006. Therefore, the Huanghe BK670 bus carried a lot of Beijing buses. In people's memories, this also caused the domain name of Beijing Public Transport Tire to be changed to bk670.com.

In 1992, foreign countries developed information for use in microcomputer IC cards. So in 1993, Yida Company cooperated with the Hangzhou Company Head Office and developed my country's first contact bus IC card without any application precedent or technical data, creating a pioneering work in the field of urban public transportation at home and abroad. The first IC card toll transportation line was born in Hangzhou, China in September 1994.

The emergence of bus IC cards has gradually made bus payment methods currency-free. Nowadays, almost most buses no longer have conductors, so the coin-based ticket sales method has gradually become more popular. Stay in our memory.

In the 21st century, various new, environmentally friendly, and new energy bus models are emerging one after another. As a vehicle with a very high daily travel frequency, buses are the first to use new energy technology, which has greatly improved the city's air quality, reduced environmental pollution, and also promoted the development of new energy vehicles.

This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.