Almost all of the fully accessible buses in Perth were bodied by Volgren. The WA government had always procured buses from Mercedes-Benz for close to 2 decades, but in 2011 the contract for new buses switched hands to Volvo. Perth's articulated buses (known as artics) regularly operate through some of the steepest and narrowest roads in various residential areas of the city.
While the two cities share many common features, the connection between Perth and Singapore was only first made in 2004, with the tour of a Transperth OC500LE CNG demonstrator unit in Singapore that helped to shape the landscape of a new generation of wheelchair-accessible buses in Singapore's public transportation system. This connection became closer than ever before in May 2014, when Land Transport Authority of Singapore used Transperth's/Public Transport Authority's model (and London to some extent) as the basis for Singapore's competitive bus tendering. This model is set to reshape Singapore's public bus industry starting from 2016 and its first winner came none other from an operator born out of the start of this very Transperth model back in 1995.
Transperth is also considered to be a forefront leader of technological trials for public buses. It previously operated two fuel-cell bus trials, a O405ENH and then three O530BZ Citaros. A Volvo B5RLE Hybrid trial is currently ongoing on its CAT shuttle routes since Feburary 2013, more than one year before SBS Transit introduced its own B5RLE Hybrid road trial in Singapore.
Because Transperth buses are government-owned and are visually insignificant to distinguish between operators (for wheelchair accessible buses, only a small decal in text listing the operator is placed at the side window), photographs are sorted only by their respective bus model.
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Mercedes-Benz O305
6 photos -
Mercedes-Benz O305G
13 photos -
Renault PR100.2
178 photos -
Renault PR180.2
82 photos -
Mercedes-Benz O405 (Diesel, Howard Porter/TOST/Volgren)
53 photos -
Mercedes-Benz O405 CNG
66 photos -
MAN SG292H
17 photos -
Renault PR100.3 CNG
11 photos -
MAN 11.190 HOCL-R-NM
6 photos -
Dennis Dart SLF (Volgren CR221L)
4 photos -
Mercedes-Benz O405NH (Diesel, 11.2m, Volgren CR225L)
27 photos, 3 albums -
Mercedes-Benz O405NH (Diesel, 12.3m, Volgren CR225L)
353 photos -
Mercedes-Benz O405NH CNG (Volgren CR225L)
78 photos -
Mercedes-Benz O405NH (Diesel, Volgren CR226L)
9 photos -
Mercedes-Benz OC500LE CNG (11.5m, Volgren CR228L)
41 photos, 2 albums -
Mercedes-Benz OC500LE CNG (12.3m, Volgren CR228L)
418 photos -
Mercedes-Benz OC500LE (Diesel, Volgren CR228L)
37 photos -
Scania L94UA CNG (Volgren CR228L)
12 photos -
MAN NG313F CNG A24 (Custom Coaches)
13 photos -
Irisbus Citelis 18 CNG
26 photos -
Volvo B7RLE (11m, Volgren CR228L)
36 photos -
Volvo B7RLE (12m, Volgren CR228L)
181 photos -
Volvo B7RLE (12m, Volgren Optimus)
176 photos -
Volvo B12BLEA (Euro V, Volgren CR228L)
74 photos -
Volvo B5RLE Hybrid
28 photos -
Volvo B8RLEA (Volgren Optimus)
16 photos -
Volvo B8RLE (11m)
51 photos -
Private Operators, Perth
78 photos