Transdev WA
ParentTransdev Australasia
Founded29 September 1996
Service areaPerth
Service typeBus services
Depots5
Fleet398 (April 2020)
Websitewww.transdevwa.com.au

Transdev WA is an Australian bus company operating Transperth bus services under contract to the Public Transport Authority. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia.

History

On 29 September 1996, Transport Management Group Pty Limited (TMG), trading as Southern Coast Transit, commenced operating services in the Rockingham area from depots in Mandurah and Rockingham with 57 Mercedes-Benz and Renault buses.[1][2][3][4] It was owned by Victorian bus operators the Donric Group and SkyBus.[5]

In August 1997, two Denning double decker coaches were acquired from AAT Kings and Australian Pacific Touring to operate a Mandurah to Perth service.[6][7] On 5 July 1998, Southern Coast was awarded the contract to operate Cockburn, Fremantle and the Perth CAT services, also awarded Belmont and Claremont area services as CGEA Group.[8][9][10]

In June 1999, TMG including Southern Coast Transit was sold to National Express[11][12] who in September 2004 sold it to Connex.[13][14][15] It was rebranded as Veolia Transport and in July 2013 as Transdev Perth, then later as Transdev WA.

Connex had previously operated services in Perth as Perthbus (later Connex WA) since 1998, before selling its operations to Swan Transit in September 2002.[16][17][18]

Between May 2011 and January 2020, Transdev operated the Joondalup area contract. Transdev lost the contract to Swan Transit on 19 January 2020.[19][20][21]

As of July 2022, Transdev WA operates the Central Area Transit (Perth CAT), Fremantle and Rockingham area contracts.[22] In July 2022, new bus contracts for Fremantle and Rockingham were awarded to Transdev for another 10 years, starting on 2 October 2022.[23]

Depots

Transdev WA operate five depots in East Perth, Mandurah, O'Connor (Fremantle), Rockingham and Pinjarra[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Private companies awarded preferred tenderer status for bus service contracts Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 28 June 1996
  2. ^ "Additional contract areas" Australian Bus Panorama issue 12/1 August 1996 page 28
  3. ^ "New operators take over" Fleetline issue 245 November 1996 page 206
  4. ^ "Competitive Tendering" Australian Bus Panorama issue 12/3 December 1996 pages 24-26
  5. ^ "Contracted Operations" Australian Bus Panorama issue 12/2 October 1996 page 33
  6. ^ Launch of double-decker Perth Mandurah bus service Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 27 August 1997
  7. ^ "Deckers for Southern Coast" Australian Bus Panorama issue 13/2 October 1997 page 28
  8. ^ Names of private sector tenderers to take over MetroBus services announced Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 22 April 1998
  9. ^ Private sector will take over remaining Transperth services this Sunday Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Transport 2 July 1998
  10. ^ "Metrobus Tenders Announced" Australian Bus Panorama issue 14/1 August 1998 page 29
  11. ^ Acquisition of second bus company in Australia National Express 1 June 1999
  12. ^ "Change of Contractor Ownership" Australian Bus Panorama issue 15/1 August 1999 page 39
  13. ^ Sale of Australian bus operations National Express 3 September 2004
  14. ^ Connex pursues further development in Australia Archived 14 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine Connex 7 September 2004
  15. ^ National Express sells buses The Age 22 September 2004
  16. ^ "About Connex". Connex Southtrans. Archived from the original on 24 January 2001. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  17. ^ "Perthbus". Perthbus. Archived from the original on 19 April 2001. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  18. ^ Connex WA sale approved by Government Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Minister for Planning & Infrastructure 1 September 2002
  19. ^ "Transdev confirms Perth bus contract loss". Australasian Bus & Coach. 10 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  20. ^ "Transit Systems Perth bus contracts renewed, expanded". Australasian Bus & Coach. 10 October 2019. Archived from the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  21. ^ "Transit Systems Group Continues To Expand Its Services In Perth". Transit Systems. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  22. ^ Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2015 Archived 7 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine Transperth page 41
  23. ^ "Transdev renews key West Australian bus contracts". Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.

External links

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