Rede Nacional de Expressos (National Express Network) is a national
express coach
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network in
Portugal
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. The network, based in
Lisbon
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, was founded in 1995. The network is composed of several bus operating companies:
Transdev
Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev, is a French-based international private-sector company which operates public transport. It has operations in 17 countries and territories as of November 2020.
History
The group was formed by the merger of V ...
Portugal, SA;
Rodoviária do Tejo SA; Barraqueiro Transportes, SA (including Rodoviária do Alentejo, SA; Eva Transportes, SA) among others; Rodoviária da Beira Interior, SA among others. The network is the spiritual successor of the intercity express services created in the late 1970s by
Rodoviária Nacional.
Rede Nacional de Expressos doesn't own coaches, as all the fleet belongs to the company's shareholders, despite most of buses associated to Rede Expressos use the Rede Expressos brand livery.
Rede Nacional de Expressos was created in 1995, with the primary mission of ensuring passenger transport and package delivery between major cities and regions of Portugal. Nowadays, based on a dense network spread over 42,000 km, Rede Nacional de Expressos connects several hundred destinations, several times per day.
Rede Nacional Expressos buses are equipped with free wifi.
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External links
Rede Nacional de ExpressosPublic Transport in Portugal
References
Bus companies of Portugal
Public transport in Portugal
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