NLD-Arriva Brabant

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Bravo (Arriva) Brabant West (14 December 2014 to 5 July 2025)
Bravo (Arriva) Brabant Oost (14 December 2014 to 12 December  2026)

Arriva operates the concessions East Brabant and West Brabant and use the same branding. They started at the same date and most buses were new at the start of the concessions, with the same type of buses in use. Though series were assigned to specific concessions, exchanges have taken place so we treat the fleets here as one. The concessions’ end date differs, but Arriva won the new concession West Brabant from 6 of July 2025.

A large fleet of new buses was purchased and entered service in December 2014. These were:
6701-6703: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter neighbourhood buses Den Bosch (already in October 2014)
6704-6734: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter neighbourhood buses (East)
6741-6768: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter neighbourhood buses  (West)
7201-7238: Volvo B8R 8900, Volans services (later Bravo Direct) (East)
7241-7286: : Volvo B8R 8900, Volans services (later Bravo Direct) (West)
7301-7324: Mercedes-Benz Intouro M, Brabantliner buses
8101-8130: VDL SLF120/310 Citea city buses Den Bosch
8131-8142: VDL SLF120/310 Citea city buses Tilburg
8151-8183: VDL SLF120/310 Citea city buses Breda
8901-8930: VDL LLE129/255 Citea regional buses (East)
8931-8936: VDL LLE129/255 Citea regional buses (Roosendaal)
8941-8993: VDL LLE129/255 Citea regional buses (West)

Retained from the former Brabant East concession were:
751-784: Mercedes-Benz Citaro city buses, which went to Tilburg
8201-8244: VDL LLE120 Ambassador, which stayed in East.

In addition, a number of buses were transferred from other concessions.

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As the concessions were extended from their initial ending dates because of COVID-19 measures, part of the East Brabant fleet, which used some older buses from the previous concession, did not meet specifications anymore and needed to be replaced in 2023. Arriva assigned nine 2012 Volvo’s (7701-7704 and 7745-7749), six 2018 Volvo’s (7781-7786) from its ZHN (South Holland North) concession to Brabant and bought 15 ex-Berlin VDL Citea from VLD (numbers 0901-0915). In February 2024 the Volvo’s returned to ZHN and were replaced by nine ex Syntus Twente VDL Citea, dating from 2012, numbered 0916-0924. More ex Twente buses were added, 0937-0941, but were slow to enter service.

For West Brabant a new series of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter neighbourhood buses entered service between November 2023 and Februari 2024, series 6838-6863.