In late 2023, the WA government announced the modernisation of the SmartRider system would be complete by mid-2024. Months on, the Public Transport Authority is still installing new card readers ...

WA's auditor-general has found 10 major WA government IT projects, including an upgrade to the SmartRider public transport system, are a total of $1.6 billion over budget. Other projects contributing ...

New technology offers optimized boarding and features New Flyer's first all-electric ramp WINNIPEG, Nov. 19, 2018 /CNW/ - (TSX: NFI) New Flyer Industries Canada ULC ("New Flyer"), a subsidiary of NFI ...

Jack Carruthers, a student at Murdoch University in Perth, managed to hack into the city’s public transport travel smartcard with a classmate. According to the Public Transport Authority (PTA) of ...

A student who hacked into a public transport system to show it had flaws has been been found guilty of fraud after he and a co-convicted got $18 worth of free trips. Jack Carruthers, a student at ...

Two Perth IT students who conducted a "research project" into SmartRiders have been found guilty of fraud after hacking into the Transperth-issued cards to roll-back charges and gain what they claim ...

Perth residents are no closer to being able to use their phones or debit cards to tag on for public transport because a highly anticipated SmartRider upgrade is six-and-a-half years behind schedule ...