Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej (commonly abbreviated PKS, can be translated as Car Communication Enterprise) is a major Polish enterprise

Company

A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...

 dealing with 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...

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History

It was created as a state enterprise in 1945 in post-war communist Poland as Państwowa Komunikacja Samochodowa (State Car Communication). In 1992 it was renamed to its current name. Until recently it had a monopoly

Monopoly

A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity...

 on suburban bus transport in Poland. Recently it has been broken up, with many new companies being privatized.

Incidents

PKS buses involving in two major crashes in Poland. The first in 1978 - 30 people died, when two buses plunged 18m into Żywieckie lake from a bridge. In the other

Poland bus disaster of 1994

Poland's bus disaster of 1994 was a bus crash near Gdańsk involving a commuter bus PKS that veered into a road-side tree. In the accident, 32 people died and 45 were injured.-Accident:...

in 1994 - an overcrowded bus collided with a tree and 32 people died in the worst road disaster in the country's history.