Welcome to Nottingham City Transport
A Red Line GO2 in Service
Nottingham City Transport is the principal bus operator in Greater Nottingham, with
over 300 buses providing a comprehensive network of services across the city, 7 days
a week. Our Pathfinder and South Notts buses also travel beyond the city boundary to provide daily services between Nottingham and East Leake, Gotham, Loughborough
and Southwell.
NCT also operates flagship contract services on behalf of Nottingham City Council. These include the very popular Queen's Drive and Racecourse Park & Ride services,
as well as the Nottingham Skylink service to East Midlands Airport. In addition, many
of the Local Link services are also operated by NCT to provide an integrated transport network in the City.
NCT is also a partner with Transdev in the Nottingham Tram which enjoys through ticketing and connecting bus services with the NCT network.
Passengers Boarding the Pink Line GO2
NCT was 'privatised' in 1986 and Nottingham City Council held 100% equity of the company until 2000, when Transdev PLC the UK arm of the French multi national transport operator acquired an effective 18% stake in the company.
Mission Statement
Providing those we serve with a safe, reliable, value for money, integrated, public transport network.
NCT in numbers
Some interesting facts and figures about NCT:
- NCT is the 6th biggest private employer in Greater Nottingham – The top 5 are all multi-national organisations
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Trips per week: 35,602 – over 1.85m a yearCitylink with NET Tram at the Royal Centre
- Litres of fuel used per year: 8.465m litres
- Number of drivers: 800
- Hours of service per week: 22,254 – over 1.1m per year
- Miles operated per week: 236,059
- Passenger trips per year: 50.1m (2007/8)
- Number of buses operated:320
- Percentage of accessible buses: 76%
- Number of routes operated: 67
- Longest route: 26km
- Calls to the Travel Centre per month: over 10,000