page_title: Urban Transportation Development Corporation
section_title: UTDC products
hierarchical_section_title: Urban Transportation Development Corporation / UTDC products
caption_attribution_description: Santa Clara County Transit 1987 UTDC-built LRV 809 in downtown San Jose, northbound on First Street just north of San Carlos Street. It is going away from the camera. (The Santa Clara County Transit District and its parent, the umbrella organization known as the Santa Clara County Transportation Agency, were replaced by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in 1995.)
context_page_description: The Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd. was a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, Canada. It was established in the 1970s as a way to enter what was then expected to be a burgeoning market in advanced light rail mass transit systems. UTDC built a respected team of engineers and project managers. It developed significant expertise in linear propulsion, steerable trucks and driverless system controls which were integrated into a transit system known as the Intermediate Capacity Transit System. It was designed to provide service at rider levels between a traditional subway on the upper end and buses and streetcars on the lower, filling a niche aimed at suburbs that were otherwise expensive to service.
  Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd. was a holding company. During its time it held several wholly owned subsidiary companies:
  Metro Canada Ltd. was established as the contracting, delivery and operating company for system sales.
  UTDC USA Inc. was a marketing company located in Detroit.
  UTDC Services Inc. provided transit service consulting to international clients and worked very closely with the experts from the TTC.
caption: Santa Clara County (San Jose) UTDC LRV
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