List of current operating trolleybus systems

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Union countries and, to a lesser extent, in Eastern Europe; while in the Western world this technology has mainly been replaced by buses and did not experience a resurgence, unlike tram technology, in the last years of the 20th century.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	20 April 1981	8
	Gomel	20 May 1962	31
	Grodno	5 November 1974	20
	Mogilev	19 January 1970	8
	Minsk	19 September 1952	62
	Vitebsk	1 September 1978	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	23 November 1984	5
Brazil	São Paulo	22 April 1949	21	Two sub-systems: SPTrans (11 lines) and EMTU (10 lines) and bus rapid transit of São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor
Bulgaria	Burgas	25 September 1989	2
	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	Beijing	26 February 1957	31	See also: eBRT – Beijing BRT.
	Baoding	29 December 2018		As of 2021, trolleybuses temporarily replaced by battery-electric buses due to construction
	Dalian	1 October 1960
	Guangzhou	30 September 1960	8
	Hangzhou	26 April 1961	2
	Jinan	1 January 1977	18
	Qingdao	21 October 1960	3
	Shanghai	15 November 1914	7	Yan'an Road Medium Capacity Bus Transit System is bus rapid transit of trolleybuses.
	Taiyuan	1 May 1960
	Wuhan	20 September 1958	7
	Xi'an	9 February 1983		Commuting trolleybus line for an artillery factory in Tianwang.
	Zhengzhou	1 January 2021	1	Only BRT Route B2 [1]
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	1
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	2
	Solingen	19 June 1952	6
Greece	Athens	27 December 1953	19	Piraeus system, which now operates as part of Athens system, was built in 1948 and connected with Athens network in 1988.
Hungary	Budapest	21 December 1949	15
	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	12
Moldova	Bălți	12 June 1972	5
	Chișinău	12 October 1949	24
	Tighina	1996
	Tiraspol	1 November 1967	6
Morocco	Marrakesh	29 September 2017	1	[2] [3]
Netherlands	Arnhem	5 September 1949	7
North Korea	Chongjin	20 October 1970	3
	Hamhung	1973
	Jonchon	possible late 2000s
	Kanggye	17 April 1992	1
	Kimchaek	17 May 1985
	Manpo	December 2019
	Nampo
	Pyongsong	4(?) August 1983	1
	Pyongyang	30 April 1962	12
	Sangwon	29 March 1995
	Sariwon	19 June 1999
	Sudong	1979
	Unhung	1980s		Commuter trolleybus connecting miners' town to Unhung Mine
	Unsan	1980s		Commuter trolleybus in Kubong-rodongjagu connecting to Ryongdae Mine
	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
	Tambov	5 November 1955	3
	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	4
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	3
	San Francisco	6 October 1935	15
	Seattle	28 April 1940	15
	Philadelphia	14 October 1923	3
Uzbekistan	Urgench	20 October 1997	1

See also

• Bus portal

• Trolleybus
• List of trolleybus systems
• Trolleybus usage by country

References

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