The
Urban Transportation Development Corporation Ltd. (
UTDC) was a
Crown corporation owned by the
Government of Ontario, Canada. It was created 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 (ICTS). 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.