According to the RA Law on Ensuring Road Traffic Safety, a public transport vehicle is considered to be:

Explanation

A route vehicle is one that has stopping points (stops), travels along set routes and carries passengers and/or luggage: tram, trolleybus and bus.

This definition requires three features at once: defined stopping points, movement along a predetermined route, and the carriage of passengers and/or luggage. Its instances are the tram, the trolleybus and the bus. A taxi does not fit this definition, because it has neither fixed stops nor a fixed route; the passenger decides where it picks up and sets down. This distinction is not a formality: a route vehicle receives special privileges in law — permission to use the marked dedicated lane and, within built-up areas, priority when moving off from a stop. If taxis counted as route vehicles, these privileges would extend to a very large fleet and the rule's main purpose, keeping mass passenger transport flowing, would be lost.

That is exactly the trap of this question: the incorrect option is word for word like the correct one, with only the phrase "as well as taxis" added. On the streets of Yerevan, remember that the priority when moving off from a stop belongs to buses and trams, not to a taxi that has pulled over at the kerb.

• It includes taxis in the list of route vehicles, whereas a taxi has neither fixed stops nor a set route. • A tourist route is not a passenger route with stops in the legal sense, and this definition leaves out the element of stopping points.

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