Vision, Mission, Values

Our Vision

Our vision is to be the partner of choice for public transport authorities to support the development of more liveable cities and regions.

Our Mission

We operate and integrate all transport modes and co-design mobility solutions that are safe, reliable, sustainable and adapted to the evolving needs of the community.

We Think Like a Passenger.

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Keolis Downer is Australia’s largest private provider of multi-modal public transport. We are the largest light rail operator in Australia and one of the nation’s most significant bus operators.

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Created in 2009, Keolis Downer is the largest private multi-modal public transport operator in Australia. We operate and integrate all types of mobility services for more than 350 million passenger journeys each year, in Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and regional South Australia.

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Keolis Downer has a long-term commitment to Australia and New Zealand and aspires to be the partner of choice for public transport authorities by delivering on our commitment to think like a passenger.

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Through our open and collaborative approach, we help Governments, public transport authorities, industry partners and communities to understand tomorrow’s challenges to future mobility and to provide innovative solutions for a better future.

Our Mission & Values

Our Values

Think Like a Passenger and Zero Harm

Think like a passenger and Zero Harm are the founding principles of our culture, these transpire through all our values.

We strive to make public transport the first choice for our customers, whatever their reason to travel. It is crucial to us that every single customer feels that our service is specially designed for them. Thinking Like a Passenger revolutionises the customer experience. It is structured around three main areas:

Collective Design

We acknowledge the individuals in the crowd, ensure we implement solutions that enable real-time communications and listen to the community by giving them opportunities to provide input to improve public transport services
We use smart data analytics to monitor mobility trends
Key initiative supporting this approach: Keoscopie/Netexplo

Smart Choices

We create integrated networks, by ensuring seamless connections across all modes. While we recognise human contact remains essential, we also use digital tools as key channels to stay connected with our passengers and engage with them.
Key initiatives supporting this approach include: loyalty programs, integrated mobility applications (Mobility as a Service)

Richer Experience

We offer citizens new ways to experience the city and develop passenger trust in the public transport system
Key initiatives supporting this approach: major events and disruption management systems, KD Signature Services training program

Ensuring Zero Harm

Our safety commitment is ZERO HARM.

Our safety commitment is ZERO HARM. This is fundamental to the success of our business by making sure our employees, customers and contractors stay safe. We seek to deliver continuous improvement by focusing on reductions in harm to our people, passengers and the environment.

We develop, embed and build on our safety culture at all levels of the organisation supported by a culture of accountability, trust and fairness.

The principle of Zero Harm encompasses our Safety, Quality and Environment frameworks, processes, Management Systems that ensure all customers feel safe throughout their journey