Pan Trafikk was a Norwegian

bus company A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for ch ...

operating in and around the city of

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

. The company was created as a

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between Åsane Billag and Bilruta Fana–Os–Milde. The company had depots in Åsane, Fana, Os and Søreide. In 1999, the company merged with

Bergen Sporvei Bergen Sporvei AS was a municipal owned public transport company that operated in Bergen, Norway from 1898 to 1998. The company operated both the Bergen Tramway, Bergen trolleybus and the yellow buses in Bergen. History The company was founded a ...

to create

Gaia Trafikk Gaia Trafikk was the largest public transportation provider in Bergen and Os, Norway until it merged with HSD forming Tide. Gaia was formed by the 1998 merger of Pan Trafikk, the bus company serving northern and southern Bergen, and Bergen S ...

,Busshistorien fortsetter
bt.no November 15, 2008 which was later merged with

Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), founded in 1880, was one of Norway's largest privately held public transportation providers. Its bus operation HSD Buss AS was founded in 1999, and serviced 15 million passengers annually in large ...

, forming

Tide Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravity, gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another. Tide t ...

. The company operated buses painted red in the surrounding areas around the original municipality of Bergen. Within the old city limits

had a

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on bus transport with its yellow buses. North of Bergen Pan had all routes between

Bergen Bus Station Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

and Åsane in addition to routes in Fana and Os. The company also operated the airport bus. The goal of Pan Trafikk was originally to operate in multiple modes of transportation (thus the name Pan, derived from the Greek ''Pantos'' meaning everywhere). This idea was instead left and focus was changed to all types of bus transport. In 1993, Pan, along with

, Haugaland Billag and Stavanger og Omegn Trafikkselskap Kystbussen, started a NOR-WAY Bussekspress express bus between Bergen and

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

. When

Nordhordland Bridge The Nordhordland Bridge ( no, Nordhordlandsbrua) is a combined cable-stayed and pontoon bridge which crosses Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset (in Bergen Municipality) and the island of Flatøy (in Alver Municipality) in Vestland county, Norwa ...

opened in 1994, Pan Trafikk started cooperating with the bus company in the north,

Bergen Nordhordland Rutelag Bergen Nordhordland Rutelag is a Norwegian company based in Vestland. The company operates a small fleet of ferries. History BNR It has roots back to 1880 when Lindaas-Masfjorden Dampskibsselskap was created. The company was founded in 1974 whe ...

, replacing the old need to change bus at the ferry quay and instead both companies operating bus routes into each other's areas. In 1998 Pan started cooperating with Bergen Sporvei, both companies operating into each other areas. This later resulted in the merger between the two and the creation of

, which merged with Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap in 2006, and is now called

References

* Entry on "Pan Trafikk" {{Authority control Defunct bus companies of Norway Companies based in Bergen Bus companies of Vestland Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1992 Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1999 1992 establishments in Norway 1999 disestablishments in Norway