Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation or APSRTC is the state owned road transport corporation in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is acknowledged as the single corporation having the largest fleet in the world. This has been certified by the Guinness World Records for being the largest bus operator in the world.The network connects cities, towns and villages in the state.
Every town has a Bus Depot, which have administration to plan and oversee the operations. It operates in the all cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh state. It also operates to the neighbouring states as per the agreement reached with the respective state bus corporations of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry, Maharashtra, Orissa, Chattisgarh and Goa.
APSRTC serves about 14 million passengers every day, equal to the number of passengers ferried by Indian Railways.
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Different type of intercity, district, and village services are:
Pallevelugu
Can be considered the new avtar of the old Red Bus. The colour scheme is predominantly Dark Green over White.Usually connects the villages to nearby towns.
Express
Similar to the Express service before but in new White and Sky Blue Stripes.
Deluxe
Previously known Luxury buses have been named as Deluxe. Can be seen in different colour patterns but mostly in Purple and white combination.
Super Luxury
Most popular non-AC service between towns and cities and vice versa. Usually in a single predominant colour with black windows. The color is usually Pink,light Green,Blue,Orange.
Meghdoot
AC & Non-AC coaches in white and red colour scheme.
Garuda
When the Swedish Auto major Volvo entered the South Indian Market with its B7R (Volvo 9400) buses APSRTC was among the few operators who have brought the Volvo B7R buses.They have named the bus Services as Garuda. These buses are very fast,comfortable and safe. People have patronized these services even at a higher ticket costs. APSRTC is operating Garudas between major cities in the state and to cities in the neighbouring states like Bangalore, Mumbai. Now the enhanced version B9R, Multiaxle with more seating capacity is to come with advanced features. Along with Volvo, APSRTC also operates with Cerita,ISUZU and Marcopolo coaches in specific zones.
Garuda Plus
Hyderabad-Vijayawada Garuda Plus at Dilsukhnagar bus stand
Hyderabad-Vijayawada Garuda Plus at Mahatma Gandhi Bus stand
APSRTC introduced the multiaxle Mercedes-Benz buses in 2011 called the Garuda Plus, having blue and beige livery.
Sapthagiri
These buses in Blue and White colours are seen in the holy towns of Tirupathi and Tirumala for the benefit of piligrims visiting the Lord Venkateshwara Swami temple in Tirumala. Majority of buses ply between Tirupathi and Tirumala and are Ghat eligible. Some of these buses connect Tirumala directly with Chennai, Bangalore and Chittoor.
Indra
APSRTC has introduced 18 air-conditioned Leyland vehicles christened ‘Indra' for people who wish to travel air-conditioned buses at affordable fares. The plan is to purchase a total of 100 buses in coming time. To begin with, these buses would be run on Hyderabad-Vijayawada, Hyderabad-Karimnagar,Hyderabad-Warangal, Hyderabad-Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad-Mahabubnagar, Hyderabad-Kadapa and other routes.
Vennela
In early 2012 APSRTC has introduced AC sleeper services named Vennela. These are 2 tier 24 berth Isuzu make buses connecting distant cities where passenger can travel with sleeping comfort.
Popular services in the past
Ordinary
The all ubiquitous Red bus or affectionately called the Erra bus, Erra for Red in Telugu connects the villages to the near towns.Usually has 52 seats with 3+2 seating arrangement. The red bus has been a part of life of the rural people. The bus connectivity of a village is considered an indication of village progress. Erra bus has the lowest fare among all the types of services. From 2006–07 Red color Ordinary bus has been slowly replaced with other color schemes leading to the demise of the people's favourite bus.
Express
Usually operated as a service between the towns and also for connecting the towns with the cities. Initially the colour scheme was Creamish Yellow and Brown, then changed to white and Greyish Blue and now White and Sky Blue.These buses have a better 3+2 seating arrangement the seats supporting head.
Semi Luxury
Initially in the attractive Light Green and Yellow horizontal long stripes over White colour scheme had reasonably 2+2 seats.Usually operated on longer routes than Expresses. After 1995 there have been several changes to the color schemes and the body structures and were called Luxury buses.From 2007 onwards they are called Deluxes.
Super Deluxe
Was the top category bus in the APSRTC service range before 1994. It was in popular Yellow, Red, Black horizontal stripes with Brown Border over White Colour.Had 2+2 pushback leather kind of seats. Were considered premium service, had advanced reservations for travel. Each town depot usually had one or two services which were usually connecting Hyderabad.T he color scheme was changed to Blue and White for a couple of years before the Super Deluxes were removed from services.
HiTech
After the Super Deluxe, the Hitechs formed the Premium service. From 1995 there have been Hitechs of different shapes and colours. Hitechs of late did not have a particular colour and were in different colours. They are eventually named Super Luxury from 2007.
Other Buses
APSRTC did had a few AC services. Few buses were modified to have Air Conditioning to connect major cities. In the year 1994 a dedicated AC climatizer buses under the name Vihamgam were introduced, they were few and connected the major cities in the State apart from Bangalore. Another service called Mayuri was a sleeper service operated on few routes most notably between Hyderabad and Shiridi. There were few other buses like the predominantly sky blue colour ordinary called Gramini for connecting small villages and there is a special kind of ordinary for carrying vegetables to the nearby Rythu Bazars. But these services were short lived.
Hyderabad is one of the largest metros in India with an area of 650 square kilometers (250 sq mi) having a population of more than 80 lakhs in the metropolitan area, making it the fourth most populous city in the country. Hyderabad was once a global center of the diamond and pearls trade. The city has emerged as a major global center for the information technology (IT) industry, and biopharmaceutical industry. The Telugu film industry, known as Tollywood is also located in the city. APSRTC is acknowledged as the single corporation having the largest fleet in the world is running lot of bus services in Hyderabad in more than 1000 different routes to serve the increasing travel needs. But lots of people are finding it difficult to get the right information on their route, which is causing them to go for private transport. <br>
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