Knoxville to Sterling Heights bus

Buses from Knoxville to Sterling Heights start at €44.18 and take 12h 52m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Knoxville to Sterling Heights starts at €44.18 and takes 12h 52m door to door, run by 1 operator over 851 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 52mDoor to door
  • 12h 8mMoving
  • €44.18 to €89.28From
  • 06:29 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 23.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€44.18 to €89.28 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €73.33Tue15
  2. about €88.73Wed16
  3. about €89.28Thu17
  4. about €79.93Fri18
  5. about €73.33Sat19
  6. about €74.43Sun20
  7. about €56.28Mon21
  8. about €54.08Tue22
  9. about €53.53Wed23
  10. about €70.58Thu24
  11. about €61.23Fri25
  12. about €72.23Sat26
  13. about €53.53Sun27
  14. about €44.18Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€39.78
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology RI429607:307h 52m15:22Knoxville Area Transit CenterCOTA Transit Terminal
  2. Rochester Institute of Technology RI353716:134h 26m20:39COTA Transit TerminalSterling Heights bus station

Changes at Columbus, with 51 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 13h 53mCO2 23.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€43.63
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology RI484106:2912h 8m18:37Knoxville Area Transit CenterSterling Heights bus station

Door to door 12h 52mCO2 23.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Rochester Institute of Technology€41.4311h 52m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

The bus gets you into Sterling Heights. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Sterling Heights for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Knoxville to Sterling Heights

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €41.4390 days
  2. €34.2860 days
  3. €48.0345 days
  4. €36.4830 days
  5. €39.7821 days
  6. €44.1814 days
  7. €56.287 days
  8. €89.283 days
  9. €73.331 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €34.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 160 percent. The most expensive point is €89.28, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €53.53Sun
  2. €44.18Mon
  3. €54.08Tue
  4. €53.53Wed
  5. €70.58Thu
  6. €61.23Fri
  7. €72.23Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Knoxville

Bus
  • Knoxville Area Transit Center
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 851 km against 740 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Meads. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Knoxville at 06:29 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Knoxville to Sterling Heights

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights take?

The Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights takes 12h 52m door to door, of which 12h 8m is spent moving. The route runs 851 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights cost?

The Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights starts at €44.18 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €41.43. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights?

1 operators run the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights: Rochester Institute of Technology. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights use?

The Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights leaves from Knoxville Area Transit Center and arrives at Sterling Heights bus station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights?

Fares for the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €34.28. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 160 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights produce?

The Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights produces about 23.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 851 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights?

Operators on the Coach from Knoxville to Sterling Heights publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 12h 52m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Knoxville to Sterling Heights on September 14, 2026: 851 km of route against 740 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €44.18, and 12h 52m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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