The share of low emission vehicles to rise to more than 60 percent

At the beginning of 2014, 85 new buses will enter into service
on HSL’s bus routes. The vehicles will be Euro 6 compliant,
low-emission vehicles with substantially lower local emissions than
the current buses. Air conditioning, ignition interlocks, automatic
fire extinguishing system and driving style monitoring system
improve travel comfort and safety. Five of the buses are hybrids.
Hybrid technology reduces both emissions and fuel consumption. 

HSL tendered the operation of 41 Helsinki internal bus routes.
The operators of most of the routes will change and there will be
also other changes to the bus routes on 1 January 2014. HSL will
discontinue the Jouko neighborhood routes. These routes will be
operated by minibuses also in the future but they will be
renumbered with three-digit numbers and the J prefix will be
dropped. 

Nine bus operators submitted tenders for the routes. The
operating costs of the services tendered in this round will
decrease by 4 percent on average, or EUR 0.96 million a year. The
services tendered account for about 7.3 percent of all bus services
procured by HSL. At the moment, there are in total 1,238 buses
operating on HSL’s bus routes. 

Current and new operators (as of 1 Jan 2014) of the bus
routes tendered 

 

 

Route

Current 

New

operator

operator

H51, H56

Helsingin
Bussiliikenne Oy

Oy
Pohjolan Kaupunkiliikenne Ab

H52, H57, 552 (new
route)

Helsingin
Bussiliikenne Oy

Oy
Pohjolan Kaupunkiliikenne Ab

H72

Helsingin
Bussiliikenne Oy

Oy
Pohjolan Kaupunkiliikenne Ab

H72N

H79

Helsingin
Bussiliikenne Oy

Nobina
Finland Oy

H84, H85, H85B, H85N,
H86, H86B, H86N, H88, H89 from 2015.

H31-H35, 237 (new
route)

Nobina
Finland Oy

Taksikuljetus
Oy

 

H801, H802, H805,
H811-H819

Taksikuljetus
Oy

Taksikuljetus
Oy

Helsingin
Bussiliikenne Oy

 

Nobina
Finland Oy

 

 

 

 

Taksikuljetus
Oy

 

H603, H604, H701,
H702, H703, H705

Helsingin
Bussiliikenne Oy

Koillisen
Liikennepalvelut Oy

 

 

New routes and route numbers

552 from Munkkiniemi to Teekkarikylä as of autumn 2013.
237 a new minibus service
801-819 minibus services in eastern / east Helsinki
603-705 minibus services in Malmi-Viikki