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Australian Transit Enterprises, known simply as ATE, was an Australian operator of bus services in Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. ==History== Australian Transit Enterprises was founded in 1995 when Hornibrook Bus Lines proprietor Geoff Mountjoy formed a joint venture with Melbourne bus proprietors the Grenda Corporation and Kefford Corporation.〔"Kefford Group Tour" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 13/2 October 1997 page 10〕 In January 1996 it commenced operating services in Perth under the Path Transit banner.〔"Swan Transit" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 12/1 August 1996 page 25〕 This was followed in April 2000 by a contract (Outer South) in Adelaide under the SouthLink banner.〔"Adelaide Bus Tendering Results Announced" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 15/4 February 2000 page 21〕〔"Adelaide Bus Tendering Results" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 15/5 April 2000 page 29〕〔(Competitive Tendering for Bus Services ) Seventh International Conference on Competition & Ownership in Land Passenger Transport June 2001〕〔(History ) SouthLink〕 At the same time, the Adelaide Hills operation contract was awarded to Transitplus, a joint venture between ATE with TransAdelaide. In April 2005 SouthLink was awarded an additional Adelaide contract (Outer North).〔"New Metropolitan Bus Contracts for Adelaide" Minister for Urban Development & Planning 17 February 2005〕〔(Serco bus drivers end strike ) ''ABC News'' 19 February 2005〕 In 2010, ATE took full control of the operation of the Hills contract, under the SouthLink brand. In July 2011, SouthLink's existing contracts werr renewed for eight years.〔(Report on the Adelaide Metro Bus Service Contracts ) Minister for Transport August 2011〕〔(New Contractors for Adelaide bus services ) Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure 29 April 2011〕〔(Provision of Bus Passenger Transport Services for the Adelaide Metro Public Transport Network ) Tenders SA〕 It also operates the LinkSA coach business. In 2012 Grenda Corporation sold its share in the business to the Mountjoy family.〔(186 Ken Grenda & family ) ''Business Review Weekly'' rich list May 2013〕 Kefford Corporation had previously sold its share. In March 2015, Keolis Downer purchased the business.〔(Operator ATE Sold ) ''Australasian Bus & Coach'' 11 March 2015〕 As a result, ATE's subsidiaries were reorganised to be directly under the control of Keolis Downer, while Australian Transit Enterprises became defunct. Prior to the company's sale to Keolis Downer in March 2015, it had a total bus fleet of 930. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian Transit Enterprises」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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