The BLT was founded in 1974, and is owned by the Canton of Basel-Land, located to the south of the city.

It transports some 48 million passengers per year, using a fleet of 64 buses and 100 trams over a network of 165 kilometres (103 mi) of bus routes and 65 kilometres (40 mi) of tram routes.

[1] The BLT jointly operates the Basel tram network with Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB), owned by the canton of Basel-Stadt.

[2][3][4] It also owns and operates the 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) Waldenburg railway, converted in 2022 to 1000mm.

These were: Baselland Transport owns five 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) railway lines over which it operates five tram services:[a][5]