Public transport in Iceland
Iceland: 3 public transport operators, 15.4M km of scheduled service a year, 569 major stations and 46 tender notices — per region and operator.
- Operators
- 3
- Vehicle-km / year
- ≈ 15.4M km
- Vehicles (peak)
- ≈ 155
- Trips / week
- 16.5K
- Stations*
- 569
- Tender notices
- 46
- Open procedures
- 31
Estimates from the scheduled timetables (one representative week per feed). *Stations with a page of their own. Methodology →
Iceland over time
18 snapshots · Dec 2024 – Oct 2026
15.4M km ↑ +12% since Dec 2024
Vehicle-km over 12 months: +1% since Oct 2025. All countries →
The largest operators
Map →Vehicle-km / year
Share of vehicle-km
100% Top 5 operators
Routes by mode
70 routes
Bus 70 100%
Regions
NUTS-3 regions by the service run inside them.
Busiest stations
By scheduled departures per day.
- Höfðatorg 682 departures/day
- Rúgbrauðsgerðin 682 departures/day
- Laugavegur 609 departures/day
- Barónsstígur 587 departures/day
- Bíó Paradís 587 departures/day
- Þjóðleikhúsið 587 departures/day
- Sogamýri 551 departures/day
- Gamla Hringbraut 509 departures/day
- Skeggjagata 494 departures/day
- Ráðhúsið 453 departures/day
- Þjóðskjalasafnið 440 departures/day
- Stekkjarbakki 438 departures/day
- MR 417 departures/day
- Lækjartorg A 409 departures/day
- Hallargarðurinn 375 departures/day
Tender market
By stage
46 Tender notices
Prior information 1 2.2%
Call for tenders 30 65%
Award 15 33%
By service type
- Scheduled public transport 23
- School transport 17
- Other 5
- Taxi 1
Most active contracting authorities
- 1 Consensa 20
- 2 Fjársýsla ríkisins 10
- 3 Vegagerðin 8
- 4 Hafnarfjordur 2
- 5 Sveitarfélagið Ölfus 2
- 6 Office of financial service and advisory 2
- 7 Reykjavik Procurement Office 1
- 8 Gardabaer 1
How we calculate
- Operators Unit: operators · counted
- Transport companies as their timetable names them (GTFS agency). The same operator in several feeds is counted once; in Germany the company that actually runs each line. Source: published GTFS timetables, one representative week per feed
- Vehicle-km / year Unit: km per year · estimate
- For every trip: route length (along the published route shape; without one, the straight line between its stops × 1.25) × the days it runs in the representative week, × 365.25 / 7. Only scheduled service — no empty or depot runs, no demand-responsive services. Source: published GTFS timetables, one representative week per feed
- Vehicles (peak) Unit: vehicles · estimate
- The highest number of trips running at the same moment in the representative week — a lower bound: reserve and workshop vehicles are not included. Source: published GTFS timetables, one representative week per feed
- Trips / week Unit: trips per week · counted
- All scheduled trips in the representative week; trips given as a frequency (every 10 minutes) are expanded into single trips. Source: published GTFS timetables, one representative week per feed
- Stations* Unit: stations · counted
- Stations with a page of their own: at least 250 scheduled departures a day, or among a country's busiest 1,000 with at least 30. Capped per country, so not comparable between countries. Source: published GTFS timetables, one representative week per feed
- Vehicle-km per inhabitant Unit: km per inhabitant and year · estimate
- Vehicle-km per year of all operators in the country ÷ its population. Only countries whose timetables cover the whole country; the figure for all countries together is their vehicle-km ÷ their population. Source: published GTFS timetables, one representative week per feed; Eurostat, population on 1 January 2025
- Tender notices Unit: notices · counted
- Every published notice counts once: prior information, call for tenders or award notice. Source: TED (EU Official Journal) since 06/2024 and the German national portal
- Open procedures Unit: notices · as published
- Prior information notices and calls for tenders — notices that do not announce an award. Source: TED (EU Official Journal) since 06/2024 and the German national portal
- Value (€) Unit: € · as published
- Sum of the contract values stated in the notices, in euro only; other currencies are neither converted nor added. Many notices state no value, so the sum is a lower bound. Source: TED (EU Official Journal) since 06/2024 and the German national portal