Fact · transport · 2024
Franchised bus companies and buses
專營巴士公司及巴士數目
Figure and reference date
5 companies (6 franchises), about 5,870 buses
5 間公司（6 項專營權）、約 5,870 輛
Notes and definition
Transport Dept fact sheet: about 5,870 franchised buses as of end-Dec 2024.
There is more than one official basis
Why do two Transport Department publications give different franchised bus counts for the same period of the year?
The same question has 2 official bases; their figures and scopes cannot be added together or swapped.
（口徑對照頁目前只有中文版：/calibre#franchised-bus-count）
Other figures in this group (transport)
Figures in the same group are not necessarily additive — check the basis note above first. Transport.
| Item / 項目 | Figure / 數字 | As of / 時點 | Source / 來源 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average daily public transport passenger journeys臨時 公共交通平均每日乘客人次 | 11.712 million 1 171.2 萬 Provisional figure. | 2025 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Length of public roads 公共道路長度 | 2,269 km 2 269 公里 Public roads maintained by the Highways Department. | 2025-12 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Licensed motor vehicles 領牌車輛 | 813,000 81.3 萬輛 Year-end figure. | 2025-12 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Licensed private cars 領牌私家車 | 585,000 58.5 萬輛 Electric 142,000; petrol 433,000; diesel and others 10,000. | 2025-12 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Electric private cars 電動私家車 | 142,000 14.2 萬輛 | 2025-12 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Front-seat child passenger restraint rule 前座兒童乘客束縛設備規定 | Children under 3 in a private car’s front seat must use an approved child seat; from 1 Nov 2025 any child under 8 and under 1.35 m tall must use a suitable child restraint device in front or rear seats. 未滿 3 歲坐私家車前座必須用認可兒童座椅；2025-11-01 起擴至未滿 8 歲且身高 <1.35 米嘅兒童坐前座或後座都要用合適兒童束縛設備 Under the Road Traffic (Safety Equipment) Regulations (Cap. 374F), as amended by L.N. 179 of 2024. Scope, exemptions and penalties per the Regulations. | 2025-11-01 | Road Traffic (Safety Equipment) Regulations (Cap. 374F) |
| Passenger arrivals by all modes 抵港旅客（按交通模式合計） | 167.304 million 1.673 億人次 Land 140.294 million, air 22.945 million, sea 4.064 million. Cross-boundary passenger flow, including returning residents, not visitor arrivals. | 2025 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Inward and outward aircraft movements臨時 進出香港的飛機 | 395,000 39.5 萬架次 Provisional figure. | 2025 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| Port container throughput 港口貨櫃吞吐量 | 12.995 million TEUs 1 299.5 萬個標準貨櫃單位 | 2025 | Hong Kong in Figures, 2026 Edition |
| EV share of new private-car registrations 電動車新登記滲透率 | Over 70% 超過70% EEB Roadmap update Feb 2026: about 149,000 EVs by end-2025; over 7 in 10 newly registered private cars are electric. | 2025-12 | Environment and Ecology Bureau: Hong Kong Roadmap on Popularisation of Electric Vehicles (updated) 2026 |
| Public charging facilities 公共充電設施 | About 17,364 (mid-2026) 約17 364支（2026年中） EPD: 11,117 medium, 3,218 fast and 169 rapid chargers; plus about 130,000 private residential charging parking spaces. | 2026-06 | Environmental Protection Department: Promotion of Electric Vehicles and Public Charging |
| MTR heavy-rail delay incidents 港鐵重鐵延誤事故 | 2025: 133 incidents of 8+ min; 11 of 31+ min 2025年：延誤8分鐘或以上133宗，31分鐘或以上11宗 LegCo Panel paper: 2024 figures were 155 and 12. Of the 2025 31+ min incidents, 9 were equipment-related and 2 passenger/external. | 2025 | LegCo Panel on Transport: MTR service reliability and delay statistics |
26 more figures in this group are listed in Transport.
Other figures from the same official source
These figures come from the same registered document: “Transport Department: Hong Kong Fact Sheet—Transport” (Transport Department). Being in one document does not make them additive.
| Item / 項目 | Figure / 數字 | As of / 時點 | Source / 來源 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxis (2024) 的士數目（2024年） | 18,163 taxis (15,250 urban + 2,838 NT + 75 Lantau) 18,163 輛（市區 15,250＋新界 2,838＋大嶼山 75） Transport Dept fact sheet: 18,163 taxis of three types as of end-Dec 2024. | 2024 | Transport Department: Hong Kong Fact Sheet—Transport |
| Trams and daily ridership (2024) 電車（叮叮）數目及每日客量（2024年） | 165 double-deckers, about 138,200 passengers/day 165 輛雙層電車、每日平均約 138,200 人次 Transport Dept fact sheet: 16 km tramway with 165 vehicles on the HK Island north shore. | 2024 | Transport Department: Hong Kong Fact Sheet—Transport |
| Cross-harbour road tunnels 過海行車隧道數目 | 4 cross-harbour road tunnels 4 條（紅隧、東隧、西隧及中環及灣仔繞道海底隧道） Four cross-harbour road tunnels connect Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. | 2024 | Transport Department: Hong Kong Fact Sheet—Transport |
| Local ferry average daily passengers (2024) 本地渡輪每日平均客量（2024年） | about 106,700 passengers/day 約 106,700 人次 Transport Dept fact sheet: average daily local ferry passengers of about 106,700. | 2024 | Transport Department: Hong Kong Fact Sheet—Transport |
How to cite this figure
Hong Kong Story, “Franchised bus companies and buses”, https://hongkongstory.org/en/facts/franchised-buses-2024, data as at 2024 (retrieved ＿).
中文：香港紀事館，〈專營巴士公司及巴士數目〉，https://hongkongstory.org/facts/franchised-buses-2024，資料時點 2024（查閱日期 ＿）。
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Registered source
Transport Department: Hong Kong Fact Sheet—Transport
Transport Department
The official document carries no registered publication date, so only the retrieval date 2026-10-11 is given — no publication year is invented.
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