page_title: Urban Transportation Development Corporation
section_title: UTDC products
hierarchical_section_title: Urban Transportation Development Corporation / UTDC products
caption_attribution_description: TTC subway car inside, surprisingly empty. Possibly 19 September 2005.
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: Interior of UTDC H6 subway car
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