By June 2007, the rural passenger lines in Changsha have increased from 178 to 239. The number of passenger buses in operation has increased from 969 in 2002 to 1159 with total seats of 21890. The three cities develop vigorously the inter-city transport and have opened up 6 inter-city public buses lines, out of which there are non-stop buses and inter-zone buses if classified according to the bus types. They could also be categorized as express buses and regular buses according to their routes so as to provide diversified services. There are 218 buses sent off from the road transport network to the urban passenger transport network at 417 times a day and the daily passenger volume averaged at 30581 people among the three cities. The real load rate is 76% for the dispatched buses.
