Overview

The Northern Territory Government is committed to ensuring Territorians have reasonable access to regular passenger transport services to and from key centres providing essential services.

Objective

The objective of the Program is to expand access to regular passenger transport services providing Territorians with access to key service centres. In practice, this means filling gaps in service provision that exist because a service may not be commercially viable and/or has not been provided for other reasons.

Operation

The Program provides funding support to remote and regional passenger transport operations that provide specified regular route services. Funding support is usually limited to terms of one to three years, on a trial basis, to assist a specified route service towards commercial viability.

A service can be classified as either inter-town or intra-town. An inter-town service is a service operating to/from communities and key centres and is typically long distance (e.g. Numbulwar to Katherine). An intra-town service is typically within a town or from nearby communities to/from a key centre (e.g. Yirrkala to Nhulunbuy on the Gove Peninsula).

The Program operates to a capped annual budget. The capacity to provide additional services or support is limited by the available budget in any year, taking into account all prior ongoing commitments.

Contact

For feedback, queries or assistance please contact the Department of Logistics and Infrastructure at contracts.dipl@nt.gov.au or by calling (08) 8924 7265.