Transit Systems

Transit Systems
Industry Bus & ferry transportation
Founded 1995
Key people
Clint Feuerherdt (CEO)
Parent Lance Francis
Graham Leishman
Neil Smith
Subsidiaries Swan Transit
Territory Transit
Torrens Transit
Tower Transit London
Tower Transit Singapore
Transit Systems Sydney
Website www.transitsystems.com.au

Transit Systems is an Australian-based public transport company. It was founded in 1995 by Lance Francis, Graham Leishman and Neil Smith who together had operated Bayside Buslines in Brisbane, Peninsula Bus Lines on the New South Wales Central Coast and Sunliner Express on the east coast in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Current Australian operations

Transit Systems' business units in Australia are:[1]

Swan Transit

Main article: Swan Transit

Swan Transit is a bus operator in Western Australia. Founded in 1995, it was the first business unit of Transit Systems to be created.[6] In its first four years, Swan Transit was awarded five bus contracts in Perth and they commenced operations between 1996 and 1998. Swan Transit later acquired other contracts in Perth as well, with all of its contracts operating under the Transperth brand. Swan Transit also commenced 10 year contracts to operate services in Bunbury and Busselton under the TransBunbury and TransBusselton brands in January 2015.[7][8]

Territory Transit

Main article: Darwinbus

Territory Transit is a bus operator in Darwin. It constitutes part of the Darwinbus bus service. Territory Transit took over the Darwin Bus Service operation in October 2014, after Transit Systems successfully tendered the contract in July that year.[9][10]

Torrens Transit

Main article: Torrens Transit

Torrens Transit is a bus operator in Adelaide. It first founded in 2000 when it commenced operating the Adelaide Metro East-West contract under contract to the Government of South Australia, which was renewed in July 2011. In April 2005, Torrens Transit commenced operating the North-South and Outer North East contracts, but these contracts later passed to Light-City Buses in October 2011. Due to continuous poor performance by Light-City Buses, eight of their routes were stripped off and were returned to Torrens Transit in April 2013.[11][12][13]

Transit Systems Sydney

Transit Systems Sydney is a bus operator in south western Sydney, operating Region 3 of the Sydney Metropolitan Bus System Contracts. It commenced operations in October 2013, taking over services from the incumbent operators.

Former Australian operations

In November 2015, Transit Systems sold all of its marine operations to SeaLink Travel Group, which includes:[6][14]

Bay Islands Transit (BITS)

Bay Islands Transit, also referred to as BITS, is one of Transit Systems' ferry operations in Moreton Bay, Brisbane. It operates services between Redland Bay and the Macleay, Lamb, Karragarra and Russell Islands in Southern Moreton Bay. BITS operated ferry services since 1982.[15] In 2005, it was acquired by Transit Systems.[6]

Gladstone Ferries

Gladstone Ferries is a passenger and vehicular ferry operation in Gladstone, Queensland, transporting workers to Curtis Island to support the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant on the island. The operation started in February 2011, following the award of two contracts for the ferry services.[16][6]

Stradbroke Ferries

Stradbroke Ferries is the other of Transit Systems' ferry operations in Moreton Bay. It was founded by Frank Dobias and Geoff Ford in 1963.[17][18][6] Stradbroke Ferries was acquired by Transit Systems in 2011. Prior to this, Transit Systems also owned the Big Red Cat ferry operation, acquired in 2007. The Big Red Cat operation merged with the Stradbroke Ferries operation after the acquisition of the latter.

Overseas operations

Transit Systems' overseas business units are:

References

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