Our vision is to enhance the sustainability and liveability of Australia’s cities and regions by moving people using bus and coach transportation. We aim to do this by representing the collective interests of our Members and to assist them in promoting the safety, efficiency and effectiveness of bus and coach transport in Australia. We want to to ensure that the businesses in our industry are protected from poor government policy and to actively advocate for better and increased public transport and school services, growth in tour, charter, long distance and other commercial bus and coach services and increased infrastructure funding. Much of what we do here at the BIC is to make sure that governments keep our moving people task at “top of mind” when they are making policy decisions about transport, our cities and regions and how money is spent. Our aim is to keep growing the “public transport pie” so that buses and coaches move more passengers and provide more and more bus services and see the tourism, charter and commercial side of bus and coach businesses grow. This has a direct impact on the profitability and viability of operators, manufacturers, component suppliers and professional services to the bus and coach industry. As part of our daily tasks here at the BIC we are charged with making sure that the bus and coach industry continues to have a major role in national and state planning for our Australian communities, cities and regional centres. We also put a lot of effort into the “on the ground” issues – both technical and operational – that impact the day to day business of bus operators, manufacturers and suppliers.