Rodoviária Nacional

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Rodoviária Nacional was the state-owned bus network in Portugal, resulting form the nationalization, in 1975, of the most important bus operators in the country.

The operations were organized in 9 Centros de Exploração de Passageiros (CEP), or Passenger Managing Centres, according to different regions. In 1979 CEP 10 was created for managing connections between Lisbon and the most cities of the country (similar to the nowadays' 'Rede de Expressos'), as well as the Torres Vedras and Vila Franca de Xira corridors, the last two belonged to CEP 6. In 1984, the CEP 5 became the DGRL (Direcção Regional da Grande Lisboa, or Regional Management of Greater Lisbon) split in 4 Centros Operacionais de Passageiros (COP), Passenger Operational Centres.

A cargo section was also created, operating under some names, such as RNTrans.

The coach fleet was numbered with four digits, corresponding the first to the CEP which the vehicle was affected (if the vehicle belonged to CEP 8, its fleet number would be 8xxx). For CEP 10 fleet, the first digit was a 0 (Oxxx), the DGRL was three digit, preceded by the letter L (Lisboa) or CS (Cascais and Sintra) (L-xxx, CS-xxx), with the numbering strictlly distributed by chassis manufacturer.

The network (passenger and cargo) was privatized between 1991 and 1995, resulting in several separate regional bus companies.