Public Transport Authority

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The Public Transport Authority, or PTA, is a department of the Government of Western Australia. It controls Transperth and Transwa.

This authority is the most recently constituted body governing public transport in Western Australia. In previous decades the most commonly remembered name of public transport was of the Western Australian Government Railways which had both railway and road transport services - the same as the current PTA.

1 Services
2 SmartRider
3 Perth's fuel cell bus trial
4 Information

[edit] Services

The Public Transport Authority runs many services. They are:

Transperth, which is the trading name the public transport in metropolitan Perth
Transwa, which is the trading name public transport in regional WA
New MetroRail, which is doubling the Perth train system
School Bus Services
Network and Infrastructure Division, making sure public transport infrastructure is safe.

[edit] SmartRider

Early in 2006, the Public Transport Authority and Transperth are introducing a smartcard, SmartRider, to replace MultiRiders.

[edit] Perth's fuel cell bus trial

The Public Transport Authority is not participating in this trial. The Department of Planning and Infrastructure and Transperth are running the Perth part of this trial.