Around 249 cities around the world have a trolleybus system currently operating. More than one third of those cities are in Russia and Ukraine, and more than half of the revenue lines are in those countries. Trolleybuses are still common in Central and Eastern Europe and China, while in the Western world they have mostly been replaced by buses and did not experience a resurgence since the late 20th century like tram/light rail technology did. Notable exceptions in the western world are Italy and Switzerland.

Country Location Started operationNo. of routesNotesYerevan15 August 19495Linz15 May 19444Salzburg1 October 194012Córdoba7 May 19893Rosario24 May 19591Babruysk30 August 19784Brest18 April 198112Gomel20 May 196234Grodno5 November 197423Minsk19 September 195265Mogilev19 January 197010Vitebsk1 September 197817Sarajevo23 November 19845São Paulo22 April 194917Two independent trolleybus systems, one owned by SPTrans (7 urban lines), the other by EMTU (10 BRT lines)Burgas25 September 19891Haskovo19902Pazardzhik1 June 19936Pleven7 October 198517Ruse9 September 19889Sliven24 May 19862Sofia1 May 194810Stara ZagoraNovember 19873Varna1 January 19863Vratsa19882Vancouver16 August 194813Valparaíso31 December 19522Baoding29 December 20183Beijing26 February 195728Includes 3 BRT routesChangzic. 19852Commuter trolleybus line serving Wuyang Coal MineDalian1 October 19601Guangzhou30 September 19607Hangzhou26 April 19612Jinan1 January 197718Qingdao21 October 19603Shanghai15 November 19147Comprises 6 regular and 1 BRT routesTaiyuan1 May 19602Wuhan20 September 19587Zhengzhou1 January 20211BRTBrno30 July 194913České Budějovice2 May 19916Chomutov–Jirkov1 September 19956Hradec Králové2 May 19498Jihlava19 December 19488Mariánské Lázně27 April 19524Opava24 August 19524Ostrava9 May 19529Pardubice20 January 195212Plzeň9 April 19419Prague15 October 20175Teplice1 May 195210Ústí nad Labem1 July 19889Zlín–Otrokovice27 January 194413Quito18 December 19954BRTTallinn6 July 19654Operation suspended due to ongoing fleet and network modernizationLimoges14 July 19435Lyon4 September 19359Nancy27 September 19821Saint-Étienne1 January 19422Sukhumi3 January 19683Eberswalde3 November 19402Esslingen am Neckar1 April 19443Solingen19 June 19529Athens27 December 195319Piraeus system, which now operates as part of the Athens system, was opened in 1948 and connected to the Athens system in 1988.Budapest21 December 194914Debrecen2 July 19855Szeged1 May 19796Ancona15 March 19491Bologna4 January 19916Cagliari22 February 19524Chieti1 August 19501Genoa1 July 19971La Spezia27 January 19513Lecce12 January 20123Milan28 October 19334Modena21 January 19503Parma25 October 19534Pescara11 September 20251Naples8 May 19404Rimini1 January 19392Includes the Metromare, a BRT line opened (for trolleybuses) in October 2021.Rome23 March 20053Almaty20 April 19449Osh1 November 19772Riga6 November 194721Kaunas31 December 196517Vilnius27 November 195616Mexico City9 March 195113Bălți12 June 19725Chișinău12 October 194924Tighina1996Tiraspol1 November 19676Arnhem5 September 19497Chongjin20 October 19703Hamhung19732Huichonc. 20001Kanggye17 April 19921Kimchaek17 May 19851ManpoDecember 20191Myongdangc. 29 March 19951Nampoc. 19821Pyongsongc. 4 August 19832Pyongyang30 April 19629Sariwon19 June 19991Sinhung1Sinuijuc. 19771Wonsan8 September 19881Bergen24 February 19501Gdynia18 October 194318 Also extends to SopotLublin21 July 195313Tychy1 October 19826Baia Mare16 February 19962Brașov1 May 19599Bucharest10 November 194915Cluj-Napoca7 November 195912Galați23 August 19892Mediaș22 December 19893Ploiești1 September 19974Târgu Jiu20 June 19952System includes interurban line to Bârsești.Timișoara15 November 19428System includes interurban lines to Dumbrăvița and GhirodaVaslui4 August 20231Bryansk3 December 196011Vladimir5 November 19529'Officially' opened on 7 November 1952Kovrov6 March 19756Voronezh6 November 19604Ivanovo5 November 196211Kaluga30 March 195614Kursk21 August 19728Khimki24 July 199732 routes run between Khimki and Moscow cityPodolsk1 May 20015Vidnoye9 September 20003Oryol29 October 19684Ryazan13 November 194915Smolensk8 April 19914Tula5 November 19627Rybinsk14 December 19764Yaroslavl7 November 19497Khabarovsk17 January 19754Vladivostok29 January 19654Vologda22 August 19796Kaliningrad5 November 19754Petrozavodsk5 September 19618Murmansk11 February 19625World's northernmost trolleybus system.Veliky Novgorod3 December 19955Saint Petersburg21 October 193644Barnaul19 October 19735Rubtsovsk28 December 19732Chita30 December 19705Irkutsk6 November 19705Bratsk1 February 19755Kemerovo25 September 197010Leninsk-Kuznetsky11 January 19843Novokuznetsk1 January 19784Krasnoyarsk5 November 19598Novosibirsk6 November 195714Omsk5 November 195510Tomsk7 November 19678Abakan31 December 198012Maykop29 November 197412Volgograd31 December 196015Nalchik22 November 19804Cherkessk19 December 19889Armavir16 June 19735Krasnodar28 July 195017Novorossiysk1 April 196914Stavropol24 July 19649Rostov-on-Don18 March 19368Volgodonsk4 October 19776Yekaterinburg17 October 194319Chelyabinsk22 November 194222Miass1 February 19755Sterlitamak24 February 196123Ufa27 January 196221Kirov8 November 19438Yoshkar-Ola1 February 197112Saransk29 January 196617Dzerzhinsk15 April 19765Nizhny Novgorod27 June 194721Orenburg1 May 19535Penza4 November 19486Novokuybyshevsk4 January 198616Samara7 November 194216Tolyatti21 January 196621Balakovo18 November 196710Engels29 April 19644Saratov6 November 195211Almetyevsk13 January 19764Kazan27 November 194816Izhevsk6 November 196811Ulyanovsk31 December 19737Cheboksary7 November 196419Novocheboksarsk2 November 19794Riyadh23 April 20131System is located on the campus of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.Belgrade22 June 19477Banská Bystrica24 August 19898Bratislava31 July 194115Prešov13 May 196213Žilina17 November 19948Castellón de la Plana25 June 20081Landskrona27 September 20031Bern29 October 19403Biel/Bienne19 October 19402Fribourg1 February 19491Geneva11 September 19426La Chaux-de-Fonds23 December 19491Lausanne2 October 193210Lucerne7 December 19416Montreux/Vevey18 April 19571Neuchâtel16 February 19403St. Gallen18 July 19504Winterthur28 December 19383Zürich27 May 19397Dushanbe2 May 19558Malatya10 March 20151Sanliurfa28 April 20231Cherkasy23Chernihiv7Chernivtsi9Crimea6 November 195921Kerch1Dnipro21Kryvyi Rih23Donetsk10Horlivka3Khartsyzk3Makiivka3Ivano-Frankivsk8Kharkiv24Kherson5Khmelnytskyi26Kropyvnytskyi7Kyiv45Bila Tserkva7Lviv10Mykolaiv8Odesa8Kremenchuk12Poltava9Rivne12Sevastopol16Sumy19Ternopil8Vinnytsia22Lutsk12Zaporizhzhia6Zhytomyr11Dayton23 April 19335San Francisco6 October 193515Seattle28 April 194015Philadelphia14 October 19233Urgench20 October 19971

See also

Trolleybus List of trolleybus systems Trolleybus usage by country

References