Horse-drawn tram of Amsterdam In congruence with the commissioning of the Amsterdam-Haarlem railway line in 1839, a private company was granted a municipal concession to operate an 'omnibus', a horse-drawn bus in the municipality of Amsterdam. This initiative marks the advent of modern urban logistics. We will have to wait only another 30 years for the more comfortable horse-drawn railway trams to bring public transport into the modern era.
