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Urban Transportation Showcase Program

Showcases

Five Canadian communities are implementing integrated transportation showcases to demonstrate innovative greenhouse gas reduction approaches. The profiles below provide information on what they are doing, how they are doing it and what they have learned so far.

Showcases' Geographic locations
 
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The WinSmart Showcase
 

A wide range of innovative strategies to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Winnipeg’s Pembina Highway corridor.

The WinSmart Showcase

Whitehorse, Yukon
Whitehorse Moves
 

A strategy to reduce automobile use through active transportation infrastructure, public outreach and transportation demand management 

Whitehorse, Yukon - Whitehorse Moves

Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
MetroLink: Innovation Towards Integrated Bus Rapid Transit

Two new bus rapid transit corridors featuring transit priority measures and multimodal stations 

MetroLink: Innovation Towards Integrated Bus Rapid Transit

Region of Waterloo, Ontario
iXpress Bus Project

A high-quality express bus corridor featuring transit priority measures, advanced technologies, multimodal stations and community marketing

iXpress Bus Project

Greater Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario
Smart Commute Initiative

Regional and local transportation demand management through a network of transportation management associations (TMAs) 

Smart Commute Initiative

Greater Vancouver, British Columbia
Sustainable Region Showcase for Greater Vancouver

Diverse measures including transit and pedestrian priority, hybrid buses, a greenway, transit villages, goods movement and household-based marketing

"Six in the City"

Future Showcases
 
  Proposals (not selected)
 

Three showcases were approved for funding, but have not yet initiated their projects. Summaries of their detailed proposals with links to more detailed information can be found by clicking here
  The following communities were invited to submit proposals, but were not selected for funding: click here.

 
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