GoKawiilHistorians credit Blaise Pascal with inventing fixed-route public transit in 1662 Paris
Mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, near the end of his life, launched a network of horse-drawn carriages in Paris called carrosses a cinq sols, or 'five penny carriages.' The eight-passenger vehicles ran on fixed, interconnecting routes at regular intervals of 7.5 to 15 minutes, rather than traveling point-to-point on demand.