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MESSAGE FROM CUTRIC’S PRESIDENT AND CEO, JOSIPA PETRUNIC Dear Members, It is with great pride that the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) presents its third-annual Membership Directory. Feedback from our Members has been used to enhance the 2022 Directory’s usefulness as a digital networking tool for transit agencies, utilities and academia, and as a client-relations resource for industry partners. Canada’s accelerating transition to zero-emission mobility, I am proud to say, has been one of the brightest rays of hope over the course of a very challenging year. As our Members know, CUTRIC’s team is committed to designing, leading, funding, deploying and implementing nationwide research and commercialization projects that make the world take notice of the country’s innovative eco-economy, while supporting the growth and launch of zero-emissions and smart-enabled transit systems that improve mobility, support social, economic, gender and racial equity, and combat climate change. As we enter our seventh year, I am honoured to report that our consortium now numbers more than 140 transit, utility, industry, government, not-for-profit and academic Members across North America and Europe. Since launching the uniquely powerful Rout∑.i™ 2.0 toolset in early 2021, CUTRIC has become a trusted vendor of complete planning assessments for transit agencies across Canada, with our ZEB Consulting Services™ winning several new contracts to conduct feasibility analyses for the Toronto Transit Commission, Brampton Transit, Cornwall Transit and MiWay, as well as full implementation planning for the London Transit Commission. We have also completed empirical analysis for TransLink, Brampton and York Region as part of our trailblazing Pan-Canadian Battery Electric Bus Demonstration and Integration Trial, and created a richly detailed electrification roadmap for Natural Resources Canada. At CUTRIC, we understand the importance and value of finding new ways to stimulate and share ideas, celebrate our Members’ accomplishments, create new thought leadership opportunities, and highlight our organization to influential government and industry stakeholders. To those ends, we co-hosted a roundtable to discuss the long-term needs of zero-emissions transit with our Members and Canada’s former Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Catherine McKenna, as part of the National Infrastructure Assessment. We also successfully hosted three 2021 conferences focused on ZEBs, Smart Mobility, and Smart Rail, and advocated for increased transit funding and smarter transit policy in media outlets including the Toronto Star, Environmental Journal, Hill Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to name a few. CUTRIC also released three knowledge series on a host of topics to guide the sector and government. Free-of-charge to Members, they include Electrical Utility Strategies for Transportation Electrification, National Smart Vehicle Joint Procurement Initiative: Rout∑.i™ Predictive Modelling of Autonomous Shuttle Performance and Passenger-Carrying Capacity of First-km/ Last-km Solutions, and New Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles: Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Metro Vancouver. We encourage policy-makers, academics, research institutes and others to use CUTRIC’s research and insights as resources in their work.
