Transperth

All buses operated under Transperth are low-entry, wheelchair accessible,[24] and air conditioned. Bus services in Perth are operated by three private companies with services divided into 11 zones that are re-tendered every 10 years. Since January 2020, the contracts were held by:[25]

• Path Transit: Kalamunda & Morley
• Swan Transit: Canning, Claremont, Marmion, Midland, Southern River & Joondalup
• Transdev WA: Fremantle, Rockingham & Perth CAT

As of September 2015, there have been a number of fires aboard the fleet's natural gas powered Mercedes-Benz OC 500 LEs. It was discovered that there were possible faults in the on-board fire suppression system installed in the engine compartment at the rear of the bus. A bus fire at the Elizabeth Quay bus station in July was said to have been caused by a leaking coolant cell. A series of one-off fires have occurred in two of the fleet's Mercedes-Benz O405NH diesel buses, both of which were sparked by frayed fan belts. Nobody was injured in any bus fires as the drivers were quick to respond and evacuate any passengers before the fires became lethal.

Perth CAT

Fremantle CAT

Joondalup CAT

CircleRoute: The CircleRoute is a cross suburban route that links numerous railway stations, shopping centres, universities, schools and the port city of Fremantle. Services run 5–15 minutes weekdays and 15–30 minutes weekends and public holidays.

Central Area Transit: Transperth operates CAT bus services around the Perth, Fremantle and Joondalup CBDs. Services run every 5 – 15 minutes on weekdays and every 10 – 15 minutes on weekends.

• Red CAT: Southern East Perth to West Perth
• Yellow CAT: Northern East Perth to West Perth
• Blue CAT: North to south
• Green CAT: (Monday to Friday only) Leederville station to Elizabeth Quay bus station
• Purple CAT: Elizabeth Quay bus station to University of Western Australia

• Blue CAT: Southern Fremantle CBD and South Beach
• The Red CAT is no longer operating.

The Blue and Red Joondalup CATs run Monday to Friday only. The Yellow CAT runs Monday to Thursday during ECU days.

• Red CAT: CBD loop (anticlockwise)
• Blue CAT: CBD loop (clockwise)
• Yellow CAT: Edith Cowan University shuttle

Transperth operates the Airport line from Perth station to High Wycombe station, via Perth Airport.[26] Terminals 1 and 2 are also served by route 37 from Oats Street Station via Belmont Forum during weekdays day time only.[27] Terminals 3 and 4 are serviced by route 292 from Redcliffe Station.[28]

Transperth operates a ferry service across the Swan River between Elizabeth Quay (Perth CBD) and the South Perth foreshore. Services depart twice an hour during winter and every 15 minutes during summer. The ferry is popular with commuters and tourists who use it to get to the Perth Zoo. There are currently three Transperth ferries: the MV Phillip Pendal,[29] the MV Tricia,[30] and the MV Shelley Taylor-Smith, which serves as a reserve vessel.[31]

The ferry service has been operated under contract by Captain Cook Cruises since February 1995.[3][32] In the year ended June 2015, there were 400,000 passenger boardings on Perth ferry services.[33]

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  MV Tricia
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  MV Phillip Pendal
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  MV Shelley Taylor-Smith

Transperth Train Operations, a division of the PTA, operates Perth's urban rail services. The network consists of 73 railway stations on seven narrow-gauge lines to Midland, Armadale, Fremantle, Butler, High Wycombe and Mandurah. Trains to Thornlie run via a branch off the Armadale line.

Services operate from 05:00 until 00:00 (until 02:00 on Saturday and Sunday mornings) with a minimum frequency of 3–15 minutes until 19:30 and 30 minutes until midnight, 15 minutes weekday and weekend (including public holidays). Post midnight services on Saturday and Sunday mornings operate on one-hour frequency until 02:15. In the year ended June 2015, 64.2 million passenger journeys were made on the network, up from 31.1 million in 2003–04.[33]

The network has been served exclusively by electric multiple unit railcars since it was electrified in the 1990s. Before that diesel locomotive-hauled trains and ADK/ADB and ADL/ADC diesel multiple units were used.[34]

Introduced in 2003 as TravelEasy before rebranding to My Account in 2014–15,[35] My Account is an online account for Transperth passengers to manage their SmartRider, parking registration, and travel alert services.

My SmartRider is the portal that allows passengers using SmartRiders to register their SmartRiders and directly manage their cards. Functions available include viewing card balance and fare type, SmartRider Autoload management, manage bike shelter access, SmartParker management, and the transaction history.

My SmartParker is the portal for passengers who park their cars at train stations to register their cars in order to use their SmartRider to pay for parking.

My Alerts is the service which My Account users can register for in order to receive alerts about upcoming works, changes and disruptions on their nominated services. These notifications are distributed via email. Advance notice is given for permanent changes and planned disruptions, with unplanned disruptions typically only being notified if they are significant (such as long delays or non-trivial peak hour delays).

Perth became the first city in Australia to use Google transit, whereby all bus stops, railway stations and ferry wharfs have a clickable symbol on Google Maps which reveals the next departures from that stop. Public transport is also available as an option for Google Maps' directions feature.[36]

As of 10 December 2009, the TravelEasy users can view the live train times to see whether the train services is on time or not as well as live departure times.[37] This service has now been made available to all commuters, and a cut-down version has been placed on 136213.mobi.

The 136213.MOBI service was launched on 10 June 2008. The service allows for public transport information, such as upcoming departures, service changes and SmartRider balances, to be obtained on a WAP-compatible mobile phone.

In the early 1990s, the network changed over from the use of train conductors with old rotary paper ticketing units and installed self-service ticket vending machines supplied by Ascom. The same rotary units in place on buses were replaced with technology supplied by Wayfarer Transit Systems.

Also at the same time, an upgraded version of the pre-encoded multi-trip ticket system MultiRider was introduced, also relying on technology from Wayfarer.

Perth has a Free Transit Zone (FTZ) with travel free on buses in the central business district. The FTZ funded by an annual levy on non-residential parking bays in Perth, East Perth, West Perth and Northbridge.[46]

On the rail network, however, free travel within the zone is only available to passengers who have purchased a SmartRider card. This was not always the case, but is now required due to changes in station structures brought about by the implementation of the SmartRider ticketing system.[47]

In September 2012, the government announced that construction would begin in 2016 on a new Perth light rail network, to be known as Metro Area Express (MAX).[48][49] The first stage of the MAX network was to run from the Polytechnic West campus in Balga, in Perth's northern suburbs, to the Perth CBD, with spur lines from the CBD to the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre in Nedlands and The Causeway in East Perth. Construction of the first stage was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018.[48] In December 2013 the government deferred a decision on whether to build the line, with it cancelled in 2016.[50]

Prior to the 2017 Western Australian state election, the then-opposition Labor Party promised a large expansion to Perth's rail network under the title Metronet.[51] After the comprehensive victory by Labor, the Mark McGowan government established Metronet as an agency of the Public Transport Authority to oversee a number of projects to expand and improve the network.[52] Projects in stage one include:

In August 2014, the government announced the 8.5 km Forrestfield–Airport Link[53][54] would be constructed providing a service to Perth Airport and Forrestfield.[55][56] Construction commenced officially in November 2016, with the line due to open in the first half of 2022.[57][58] After almost 6 years of construction, the line has finished testing and building, soon commencing train services from the CBD via the Midland Line on 9 October 2022.

A link to Ellenbrook had been originally promised by then-Premier Alan Carpenter and Opposition Leader Colin Barnett prior to the 2008 elections, however this proposal was not realised.[59] Mark McGowan revived the project in 2017.[60] A business case is currently being prepared for a new 21 km Ellenbrook spur line with stations at Morley, North Morley (Dianella), Noranda, Malaga, Bennett Springs, Whiteman and Ellenbrook.[61] Construction work is expected to start in 2019 and be completed in 2022.[62]

Perth's first east–west rail link is planned to run between Thornlie and Cockburn Central stations, connecting the Mandurah and Thornlie lines.[63] This proposal involves 14.5 km of new railway, relocating 11 km of freight line and building two new stations, construction started in 2019.[63]

The Yanchep Rail Extension is a 14.5 km project to extend the Joondalup line North for 14.5 km with stations at Alkimos, Eglinton and Yanchep.[64] The extension is set to start construction in 2019.[64] The Yanchep Rail Extension and the Thornlie-Cockburn Link are slated to have a combined cost of $1.1 billion.[65]

• Extending Armadale line services to Byford.[66]
• Extending Midland line services to Bellevue and relocating Midland station.[67]
• Building Karnup station. on the Mandurah line.[68]
• Removing several level crossings on the Armadale and Midland lines[69]
• Designing and manufacturing 41 (246 carriages) new six-car C-series trains[70]