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Transperth controls the public transport (by contracting other companies) in Perth , Western Australia . It is run by the Public Transport Authority . SERVING AREAS Transperth currently serves the Perth Metropolitan Area from the Perth City, east to Chidlow , west to Fremantle , south to Mandurah and north to Two Rocks . These suburbs are divided into Nine Fare-zones , by the distance from the Perth city centre. Free Transit Zone In Perth central areas, Free Transit Zone is provided for free travel in Perth City. Also inside this area, three bus routes are provided for free travel between streets in Perth. See Perth Central Area Transit for more details. SMARTRIDER See Also: SmartRider The Public Transport Authority and Transperth plan to introduce a smartcard-based system in April 2006 named SmartRider , replacing the existing MultiRider . Some students in high schools have already been issued these cards, although they have not been introduced to the general public. This is set to happen by 2006. The student SmartRiders feature a picture of the student, their name and address of their school. On October 16, 2005, 2000 people started trialling the SmartRider system for one month. The Smartcard -based system is based on software and hardware from the UK company Wayfarer {Link without Title} . TRAVELEASY The TravelEasy is a Transperth's email update service that send notifications to the users, which this service is introduced in 2003. Users can opt-in to this service to receive the service changes, disruptions and special events on selected railway lines and bus routes through email. Later on, the TravelEasy account can be used to link the SmartRider card for account balances or other operations. PERTH'S FUEL CELL BUS TRIAL The Department Of Planning And Infrastructure and Transperth are running the Perth part of the fuel cell bus trial. The buses are operated by Path Transit . HISTORY Transperth was formed by the amalgamation of Bus, Ferry and Rail passenger services during the 1980's. All of these services were originally operated by the State government either by Metropolitan Transport Trust (MTT) operated the Bus and Ferry services. West Australian Government Railways (WAGR) owned and operated under the name Westrail. Towards the end of 1980's and into the 1990's Transperth competed with private operators through a tender process to service various passeneger routes. Later into the 1990 Transperth re-tendered the services they continued to operate. Transperth now owns the vehicles and leases them to the route operators who are responsible for the maintenance of the vehicles. OPERATORS .]] Bus Train Ferry Call Centre SEE ALSO
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