Hungary’s Volánbusz secures 10-year concession, promises 1,000 new buses by 2026

Volánbusz, a unit of the state-owned MÁV group, will continue to provide intercity bus public transport services in Hungary in the next decade as Construction and Transport Minister János Lázár signed the 10-year concession contract with MÁV Személyszállítási on Wednesday after the company won the concession tender for the service, MÁV said.

As part of a ten-point pledge made by the minister in early January to improve public transport, the company will purchase 1,000 new buses by summer 2026, it said. The “new transport constitution” will create public transport services or increase the number of daily services in around 500 small municipalities.

With the MÁV group’s integration, passengers will enjoy more and more benefits of having one company providing both fixed-track and road public transport services in Hungary, MÁV said.

It noted that in September 2024, Volánbusz submitted a valid preliminary offer for the tender called by the National Concession Bureau, then, following successful negotiations, MÁV Személyszállítási, the passenger transport unit of MÁV, submitted the final offer in February 2025.

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