Passengers getting onto abus.Apassenger is a term that is used for a person who travels in avehicle, but not the driver or a person working in thevehicle.
There are two common ways in which the term is used:
- The first is for persons who ride incars orvans. The term is used for these type of passengers if they have or have not paid for the ride.
- The second is for persons who pay to ride inpublic transport vehicles such asbuses,trains,aircraft, andships. People who work on the vehicle arecrew, not passengers.
In most places the company who owns the vehicles and the people who work on them havelegalobligations to the passengers riding with them.