Advance Transit

{{Infobox Bus transit

| name = Advance Transit

| logo = Advance_Transit_(logo).png

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| image_caption = Advance Transit Orange Line bus by the White River Junction Greyhound bus station

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| founded ={{Start date|1984}}

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| headquarters = Wilder, Vermont

| locale = The Upper Connecticut River Valley - Lebanon, Hanover, Enfield, and Canaan in New Hampshire and Hartford and Norwich in Vermont.

| service_area = eastern Windsor County, Vermont and southwestern Grafton County, New Hampshire

| service_type = bus service, paratransit

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| routes = 9

| stops ={{Flatlist|

• Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center}}

| fleet = 27 buses, 8 cutaway buses, 3 service vehicles

| annual ridership = 581,293 (VT/NH fixed routes only, 2018){{cite news |title=Advance Transit 2018 Town Report for Bus service |url=https://dailyuv.com/970118 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116045851/https://dailyuv.com/970118 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 16, 2019 |accessdate=2019-01-15 |publisher=Daily UV |date=November 2018}}

| fuel_type =Electric, Diesel, Diesel-electric Hybrid, and Gasoline

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| website = {{URL|www.advancetransit.com}}

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Advance Transit is the main public transportation provider for eastern Windsor County and southwestern Grafton County in southeastern Vermont and western New Hampshire, respectively. Local bus routes are provided between the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth College, the city of Lebanon, New Hampshire, and the towns of Hanover, New Hampshire, and Hartford, Vermont, including the unincorporated village of White River Junction.

Advance Transit was created in 1981 following the failure of the for-profit Tri-Town Bus Company. In 1977 the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Council (now the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission) completed a Transit Development Plan for a non-profit public transportation system covering a larger service area. The Plan was endorsed by the State of New Hampshire, and Advance Transit was then formed as a program of the Upper Valley Senior Citizens Council. In 1984 Advance Transit incorporated as a separate non-profit entity.

All routes have been fare free since 2003. Service is provided on all routes on weekdays, and the Blue, Red, Orange, and Green routes operate on Saturdays. Trip planning via Advance Transit is available on Google Maps.[http://www.google.com/landing/transit/cities/index.html Cities Covered], Google Maps. Retrieved 2015-01-23.