Experience

 
 

Leading Mobility is led by David Cooper, a transportation planner who has contributed to significant transit capital and service expansion projects in Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto over the last decade. Examples of the projects he contributed to and organizations he worked with are below.


ProjectS in Focus


 

On-demand Transit toolkit

Canadian Urban Transit Association

Broadway Subway DESIGN & PROCUREMENT

TransLink

Advancing the King Street Pilot

City of Toronto / Toronto Transit Commission

Battery-Electric Bus Project Development

TransLink

Bus Rapid Transit Planning and Implementation

Calgary Transit

West LRT and NE LRT Extension

Calgary Transit

Transit Service Expansion PlanNING

TransLink

Emergency Response and Recovery

Calgary Transit

Vaccination guidelines for paratransit

Canadian Urban Transit Association

Innovation within Transit Agencies

Tri-Met, Portland, Oregon

TOCore Policy Proposals Report

City of Toronto

Regional Transit Planning and Implementation

City of Calgary / Calgary Regional Partnership

developer funded transit service agreement

Calgary Transit

On-Demand Technology for Paratransit

TransLink/Coast Mountain Bus Company

Relief Line Subway Scarborough Subway Extension

City of Toronto / Toronto Transit Commission

Sustainable Funding Tools

Edmonton Transit Service

Powell River On-demand and fixed-route transit service review

City of Powell River

Canada’s Transit Recovery Strategy

Canadian Urban Transit Association

Edmonton On-Demand Transit Service Delivery Model Review

Edmonton Transit Service

 

Land Value Capture Affordability IMpact assessment

TransLink (South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority)

 

Canadian Urban Mobility 2.0

Transport Canada

 

David has worked with the following organizations:

  • American Public Transit Association

  • Bow Valley Regional Transit Services Commission

  • Bonomi

  • Canadian Urban Transit Association

  • Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium

  • Calgary Airport Authority

  • Calgary Metropolitan Region Board

  • Calgary Municipal Lands Corporation

  • City of Airdrie

  • City of Beaumont

  • City of Calgary

  • City of Cranbrook

  • City of Edmonton

  • City of Kelowna

  • City of Powell River

  • City of Toronto

  • City of Winnipeg

  • Conference Board of Canada

  • CSA Group

  • David Suzuki Foundation

  • Halifax Regional Municipality

  • Infrastructure Canada

  • King County Metro

  • Lime

  • Melcor Developments

  • Metrolinx

  • Municipality of Jasper

  • Province of British Columbia - Ministry of Municipal Affairs

  • Province of Ontario - Ministry of Transportation

  • Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo

  • Sarnia Transit

  • Spin

  • Strathcona County

  • Toronto Transit Commission

  • Town of Chestermere

  • Town of Cochrane

  • Town of Okotoks

  • TransLink (South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority)

  • Transport Canada

  • Tri Met (Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Portland, Oregon)

  • Uber

  • York Region Transit