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 . contents 1 current australian operations 1.1 swan transit 1.2 territory transit 1.3 torrens transit 1.4 transit systems sydney 2 former australian operations 2.1 bay islands transit bits 2.2 gladstone ferries 2.3 stradbroke ferries 3 overseas operations 4 references current australian operations edit transit systems business units in australia are 1 swan transit bus operation in perth 2 territory transit bus operation in darwin . 3 torrens transit bus operation in adelaide 4 transit systems sydney bus operation in sydney 5 swan transit edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit main article 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 edit in november 2015 transit systems sold all of its marine operations to sealink travel group which includes 6 14 bay islands transit bits ferry operation in brisbane 15 gladstone ferries 16 stradbroke ferries operation in brisbane bay islands transit bits edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit transit systems overseas business units are go whippet bus operation in cambridgeshire england 19 tower transit bus operation in london england 20 tower transit singapore bus operations in singapore 21 references edit about us transit systems swan transit overview transit systems territory transit overview transit systems torrens transit overview transit systems transit systems sydney transit systems a b c d e history transit systems retrieved 13 june 2015 provision of bunbury regional town bus service tenders wa 16 december 2014 provision of busselton regional town bus service tenders wa 16 december 2014 move to nt bus news 7 july 2014 transit systems welcomed to the top end retrieved 2 october 2014 bus company transfield stripped of eight routes and fined for being late adelaide advertiser 24 april 2013 bus company stripped of routes abc news 25 april 2013 sa operator forfeits routes due to poor performance australasian bus & coach 26 april 2013 completion of acquisition of transit systems marine sealink travel group retrieved 1 february 2016 a b bay islands transit overview transit systems a b gladstone ferries overview transit systems stradbroke rivals in ferry good deal courier mail retrieved 13 june 2015 about us stradbroke ferries retrieved 13 june 2015 lee family completes sale of whippet buses to aussie firm hunts post 18 november 2014 australian public transport innovator acquires first international fleet transit systems first tranche of bus services in bulim package to roll out on 29 may land transport authority 29 april 2016 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title transit systems & oldid 718389976 categories ferry companies 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