Urban Transportation Development Corporation

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The Urban Transportation Development Corporation was a corporation created in the 1970s by the Government of Ontario, Canada, to develop transit vehicles for the province's public transit authorities; largely this work would be for the province's largest authority, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) for whom the H4/H5 subway cars and ALRV streetcars were manufactured for. It had its main plant just west of Kingston, in nearby Millhaven.

UTDC designed and built the Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) for the TTC's Scarborough Rapid Transit line and the original Vancouver SkyTrain. Other vehicles manufactured by UTDC included the , the #3 Red Line (01700) series for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and the original cars for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system.

It was later bought by Bombardier Transportation and merged with Hawker Siddeley Canada's Thunder Bay plant (which dated back to Hawker Siddeley's predecessor, Canada Car and Foundry) under the "UTDC" name. By the early 1990s, the UTDC name was phased out with the Bombardier nameplate succeeding it.

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RT75 H5 subway cars (Toronto Transit Commission)
RT75 H6 subway cars (Toronto Transit Commission)
ICTS (CCR) LRT cars; 1 working model
CLRV L2
ALRV L3
#3 Red Line (01700 series) subway cars (MBTA)
VTA Light Rail Cars (Santa Clara VTA, now in secondhand use in Sacramento and Salt Lake City)
Steyr Percheron truck chassis