Passengers can log on to www.buymymegarider.com to purchase travel on their local Stagecoach bus network.

Customers in Sheffield will also entitled to use their megarider ticket on the Supertram network as well as Stagecoach bus services.

Stagecoach is one of the UK’s biggest bus operators, running around 7,000 buses in nearly 100 towns and cities across the country, from the Highlands of Scotland to south-west England.

Passengers using Stagecoach services already purchase more than 6.3million weekly bus tickets across the UK every year.

Research has found a huge increase in demand for online purchase of bus travel, with a 60% increase in sales of Stagecoach’s popular unirider student ticket in the past 12 months.

Les Warneford, Managing Director of Stagecoach UK Bus, said: “More and more people using the internet to make a wide range of purchases. Buses are already a greener and smarter way to travel and the new online ticket will make our services even more accessible and convenient for passengers.”