List of current operating trolleybus systems

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Almost 300 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[clarification needed] are in those countries. The trolleybus technology is still widely used in former Soviet Union countries and, to a lesser extent, in Eastern Europe, while in the Western world this technology has mainly been replaced by buses and did not experience a resurgence, unlike tram technology, in the last years of the 20th century. (For comparison, since 2000 fewer than 20 brand-new trolleybus systems have opened, compared to more than 150 new tram systems.) Some exceptions in the western world are Italy and Switzerland.

Country Location Started operation No. of routes Notes
Armenia Yerevan 15 August 1949 5
Austria Linz 15 May 1944 4
Salzburg 1 October 1940 12
Argentina Córdoba 7 May 1989 3
Rosario 24 May 1959 1
Belarus Babruysk 30 August 1978 4
Brest 18 April 1981 12
Gomel 20 May 1962 34
Grodno 5 November 1974 23
Minsk 19 September 1952 65
Mogilev 19 January 1970 10
Vitebsk 1 September 1978 17
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 23 November 1984 5
Brazil São Paulo 22 April 1949 17 Two independent trolleybus systems, one owned by SPTrans (7 urban lines), the other by EMTU (10 BRT lines)
Bulgaria Burgas 25 September 1989 1
Haskovo 1990 2
Pazardzhik 1 June 1993 6
Pleven 7 October 1985 17
Ruse 9 September 1988 9
Sliven 24 May 1986 2
Sofia 1 May 1948 10
Stara Zagora November 1987 3
Varna 1 January 1986 3
Vratsa 1988 2
Canada Vancouver 16 August 1948 13
Chile Valparaíso 31 December 1952 2
China Baoding 29 December 2018 3
Beijing 26 February 1957 28 Includes 3 BRT routes
Changzi c. 1985 2 Commuter trolleybus line serving Wuyang Coal Mine
Dalian 1 October 1960 1
Guangzhou 30 September 1960 7
Hangzhou 26 April 1961 2
Jinan 1 January 1977 18
Qingdao 21 October 1960 3
Shanghai 15 November 1914 7 Comprises 6 regular and 1 BRT routes
Taiyuan 1 May 1960 2
Wuhan 20 September 1958 7
Zhengzhou 1 January 2021 1 BRT
Czech Republic Brno 30 July 1949 13
České Budějovice 2 May 1991 6
Chomutov–Jirkov 1 September 1995 6
Hradec Králové 2 May 1949 8
Jihlava 19 December 1948 8
Mariánské Lázně 27 April 1952 4
Opava 24 August 1952 4
Ostrava 9 May 1952 9
Pardubice 20 January 1952 12
Plzeň 9 April 1941 9
Prague 15 October 2017 2
Teplice 1 May 1952 10
Ústí nad Labem 1 July 1988 9
Zlín–Otrokovice 27 January 1944 13
Ecuador Quito 18 December 1995 4 BRT
Estonia Tallinn 6 July 1965 4 Operation suspended due to ongoing fleet and network modernization
France Limoges 14 July 1943 5
Lyon 4 September 1935 9
Nancy 27 September 1982 1
Saint-Étienne 1 January 1942 2
Georgia Sukhumi 3 January 1968 3
Germany Eberswalde 3 November 1940 2
Esslingen am Neckar 1 April 1944 3
Solingen 19 June 1952 9
Greece Athens 27 December 1953 19 Piraeus system, which now operates as part of the Athens system, was opened in 1948 and connected to the Athens system in 1988.
Hungary Budapest 21 December 1949 14
Debrecen 2 July 1985 5
Szeged 1 May 1979 6
Italy Ancona 15 March 1949 1
Bologna 4 January 1991 6
Cagliari 22 February 1952 4
Chieti 1 August 1950 1
Genoa 1 July 1997 1
La Spezia 27 January 1951 3
Lecce 12 January 2012 3
Milan 28 October 1933 4
Modena 21 January 1950 3
Parma 25 October 1953 4
Pescara 11 September 2025 1
Naples 8 May 1940 4
Rimini 1 January 1939 2 Includes the Metromare, a bus rapid transit line opened (for trolleybuses) in October 2021.
Rome 23 March 2005 3 First era: 1937–1972
Kazakhstan Almaty 20 April 1944 9
Kyrgyzstan Osh 1 November 1977 2
Latvia Riga 6 November 1947 21
Lithuania Kaunas 31 December 1965 17
Vilnius 27 November 1956 16
Mexico Guadalajara 15 December 1976 1
Mexico City 9 March 1951 13
Moldova Bălți 12 June 1972 5
Chișinău 12 October 1949 24
Tighina 1996
Tiraspol 1 November 1967 6
Morocco Marrakesh 29 September 2017 1 [1][2]
Netherlands Arnhem 5 September 1949 7
North Korea Chongjin 20 October 1970 3
Hamhung 1973 2
Huichon c. 2000 1
Kanggye 17 April 1992 1
Kimchaek 17 May 1985 1
Manpo December 2019 1
Myongdang c. 29 March 1995 1
Nampo c. 1982 1
Pyongsong c. 4 August 1983 2
Pyongyang 30 April 1962 9
Sariwon 19 June 1999 1
Sinhung 1
Sinuiju c. 1977 1
Wonsan 8 September 1988 1
Norway Bergen 24 February 1950 1
Poland Gdynia 18 October 1943 18 Also extends to Sopot
Lublin 21 July 1953 13
Tychy 1 October 1982 6
Romania Baia Mare 16 February 1996 2
Brașov 1 May 1959 9
Bucharest 10 November 1949 15
Cluj-Napoca 7 November 1959 12
Galați 23 August 1989 2
Mediaș 22 December 1989 3
Ploiești 1 September 1997 4
Târgu Jiu 20 June 1995 2 System includes interurban line to Bârsești.
Timișoara 15 November 1942 8 System includes interurban lines to Dumbrăvița and Ghiroda
Vaslui 4 August 2023 1
Russia Bryansk 3 December 1960 11
Vladimir 5 November 1952 9 'Officially' opened on 7 November 1952
Kovrov 6 March 1975 6
Voronezh 6 November 1960 4
Ivanovo 5 November 1962 11
Kaluga 30 March 1956 14
Kursk 21 August 1972 8
Khimki 24 July 1997 3 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city
Podolsk 1 May 2001 5
Vidnoye 9 September 2000 3
Oryol 29 October 1968 4
Ryazan 13 November 1949 15
Smolensk 8 April 1991 4
Tula 5 November 1962 7
Rybinsk 14 December 1976 4
Yaroslavl 7 November 1949 7
Khabarovsk 17 January 1975 4
Vladivostok 29 January 1965 4
Vologda 22 August 1979 6
Kaliningrad 5 November 1975 4
Petrozavodsk 5 September 1961 8
Murmansk 11 February 1962 5 World's northernmost trolleybus system.
Veliky Novgorod 3 December 1995 5
Saint Petersburg 21 October 1936 44 Operation suspended November 1941 – 1945 because of war.
Barnaul 19 October 1973 5
Rubtsovsk 28 December 1973 2
Chita 30 December 1970 5
Irkutsk 6 November 1970 5
Bratsk 1 February 1975 5
Kemerovo 25 September 1970 10
Leninsk-Kuznetsky 11 January 1984 3
Novokuznetsk 1 January 1978 4
Krasnoyarsk 5 November 1959 8
Novosibirsk 11 November 1957 14
Omsk 5 November 1955 10
Tomsk 7 November 1967 8
Abakan 31 December 1980 12
Maykop 29 November 1974 12
Volgograd 31 December 1960 15
Makhachkala 3 February 1973 3
Nalchik 22 November 1980 4
Cherkessk 19 December 1988 9
Armavir 16 June 1973 5
Krasnodar 28 July 1950 17
Novorossiysk 1 April 1969 14
Stavropol 24 July 1964 9
Rostov-on-Don 18 March 1936 8
Volgodonsk 4 October 1977 6
Yekaterinburg 17 October 1943 19
Chelyabinsk 22 November 1942 22
Miass 1 February 1975 5
Sterlitamak 24 February 1961 23
Ufa 27 January 1962 21
Kirov 8 November 1943 8
Yoshkar-Ola 1 February 1971 12
Saransk 29 January 1966 17
Dzerzhinsk 15 April 1976 5
Nizhny Novgorod 27 June 1947 21
Orenburg 1 May 1953 5
Penza 4 November 1948 6
Berezniki 14 March 1961 11
Novokuybyshevsk 4 January 1986 16
Samara 7 November 1942 16
Tolyatti 21 January 1966 21
Balakovo 18 November 1967 10
Engels 29 April 1964 4
Saratov 6 November 1952 11
Almetyevsk 13 January 1976 4
Kazan 27 November 1948 16
Izhevsk 6 November 1968 11
Ulyanovsk 31 December 1973 7
Cheboksary 7 November 1964 19
Novocheboksarsk 2 November 1979 4
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 23 April 2013 1 System is located on the campus of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.
Serbia Belgrade 22 June 1947 7
Slovakia Banská Bystrica 24 August 1989 8
Bratislava 31 July 1941 15
Prešov 13 May 1962 13
Žilina 17 November 1994 8
Spain Castellón de la Plana 25 June 2008 1
Sweden Landskrona 27 September 2003 1
 Switzerland Bern 29 October 1940 3
Biel/Bienne 19 October 1940 2
Fribourg 1 February 1949 1
Geneva 11 September 1942 6
Lausanne 2 October 1932 10
Lucerne 7 December 1941 6
Montreux/Vevey 18 April 1957 1
Neuchâtel 16 February 1940 3
St. Gallen 18 July 1950 4
Schaffhausen 24 September 1966 1
Winterthur 28 December 1938 3
Zürich 27 May 1939 7
Tajikistan Dushanbe 2 May 1955 8
Turkey Malatya 10 March 2015 1
Sanliurfa 28 April 2023 1
Ukraine Cherkasy 9 November 1965 23
Chernihiv 4 November 1964 7
Chernivtsi 1 February 1939 9
Crimea 1 May 1961 1
Kerch 18 September 2004 1
Dnipro 7 November 1947 21
Kryvyi Rih 21 December 1957 23
Donetsk 3 January 1940 10
Horlivka 6 November 1974 3
Khartsyzk 4 February 1982 3
Kramatorsk 18 November 1971 11
Makiivka 13 November 1969 3
Sloviansk 19 March 1977 5
Ivano-Frankivsk 31 December 1983 8
Kharkiv 5 May 1939 24
Kherson 16 June 1960 5
Khmelnytskyi 25 December 1970 26
Kropyvnytskyi 4 November 1967 7
Kyiv 5 November 1935 45
Bila Tserkva 23 June 1980 7
Lviv 27 November 1952 10
Mykolaiv 29 October 1967 8
Odesa 5 November 1945 8
Kremenchuk 6 November 1966 12
Poltava 14 September 1962 9
Rivne 27 December 1974 12
Sevastopol 6 November 1950 16
Sumy 25 August 1967 19
Ternopil 24 December 1975 8
Vinnytsia 20 February 1964 22
Lutsk 8 April 1972 12
Zaporizhzhia 22 December 1949 6
Zhytomyr 1 May 1962 11
United States Dayton 23 April 1933 5
San Francisco 6 October 1935 15
Seattle 28 April 1940 15
Philadelphia 14 October 1923 3
Uzbekistan Urgench 20 October 1997 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ Trolleybus Magazine No. 336 (November–December 2017), p. 230. National Trolleybus Association (UK).
  2. ↑ "Marrakech trolleybus route inaugurated". Metro Report. Railway Gazette International. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020.