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OC Transpo is the organisation that operates and plans public transport in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. OC Transpo runs bus rapid transit, light rail, conventional bus routes, and door-to-door paratransit.
OC Transpo was established in 1948 as the Ottawa Transportation Commission, and currently operates two urban rail lines, 11 bus rapid transit (BRT) lines, and 170 regular bus routes. Ottawa is served with 18 urban rail stations, 43 BRT stations, and two intercity railway stations. Urban rail in Ottawa is called the O-Train, and the BRT is called the Transitway.
The network is designed as a hub and spoke system, where local bus routes feed Transitway lines, which themselves feed into O-Train lines.
Ottawa is considered an important BRT city, due to its early adoption of the influential Transitway network, which has garnered one of the largest public transport mode shares in North America. This high ridership, which was 110,596,700 in 2023, has led to the creation of the O-Train system, which is seeing over-capacity segments of the Transitway be converted to a higher capacity light rail system. As a result of this, Ottawa has become the first city in the world to convert bus rapid transit to light rail.
Some OC Transpo routes also serve Gatineau in Québec during peak periods. In addition, many Société de transport de l’Outaouais routes also run into downtown Ottawa.