OpplandsTrafikk AS is the public transport

Public transport

Public transport is a shared passenger transportation service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, car pooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.Public transport modes include buses, trolleybuses, trams...

 administration for bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

transport in Oppland

Oppland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and owned by the county administration. The company plans, markets and organises the public transport in Oppland, but does not operate any buses itself. Instead it issuses contracts to operating companies based on negotiated contracts or public service obligation

Public Service Obligation

In transport, public service obligation or PSO is an arrangement in which a governing body or other authority offers an auction for subsidies, permit the winning company a monopoly to operate a specified service of public transport for a specified period of time for the given subsidy...

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All buses operated on contract for OpplandsTrafikk are uniformly painted white and OpplandsTrafikk takes care of marketing and customer relations for the bus companies. The companies that operate for Hedmark Trafikk are Etnedal Bilruter, Schøyens Bilcentraler

Schøyens Bilcentraler

Nobina Norge is a Norwegian bus company, owned by Nobina, that operates in the counties of Akershus, Hedmark, Hordaland, Oppland, Østfold and Vestfold.-History:...

, Jotunheimen og Valdresruten Bilselskap

Jotunheimen og Valdresruten Bilselskap

A/S Jotunheimen og Valdresruten Bilselskap is a transport company with headquarters in Fagernes, Nord-Aurdal, Oppland. In 2009, the company had a turnover of kr. 96.981.000,- and is currently the largest road transport company in Oppland based in the county. JVB has 120 employees and has daily...

, Lesja Bilruter, Nettbuss

Nettbuss

Nettbuss AS is the largest bus company in Norway owned by the Norwegian State Railways . It was until 2000 known as NSB Biltrafikk. The company has 14 operating subsidiaries throughout Norway and in Denmark and Sweden....

 and Fjord1 Nordfjord–Ottadalen, Snertingdal Auto and Torpa Bilruter.