David Crowley

Transportation Planner

David Crowley, a graduate of the MES Program (in Planning and Policy Analysis) at York University in 1972, finished his full time career as Vice President with Halcrow Consulting Inc. in July 2011 and has been active, on a part-time basis, as President of David F. Crowley & Associates Limited since 2011. Now retired, David was a senior transportation planner specializing in travel market research, demand forecasting (for tolls roads and rapid transit projects), transit service planning, and transportation policy analysis.  

David held senior service planning positions at the TTC from 1982 to 1988, where he was responsible for updating the TTC Service Standards program (as Superintendent of Service Policy) and for implementing the new program (as Superintendent of Route Planning). As Superintendent of Route Planning he was involved in the planning of bus, streetcar and rapid transit services including the Harbourfront and Spadina streetcar lines and changes to Scarborough bus routes to support the SRT.  

While at the TTC Mr. Crowley was instrumental in developing the Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS) program in 1985 and was responsible for incorporating these new data into the TTC’s service planning processes (including the adoption of the MADITUC transit assignment model in 1988).

David returned to private consulting with Tranplan Associates in 1988 where he applied the lessons he had learned at the TTC in undertaking a wide range of transit service planning assignments.  These included the planning of local transit routes to better serve GO Rail stations, while improving transit services to local travel markets (in Whitby, Oakville, Burlington and Mississauga). While at Tranplan, he also gained valuable transit service planning experience in other cities including major projects in Lethbridge and Saskatoon.

During the 2001 to 2006 period, David further broadened his Canadian and international experience at Cansult Limited working on the Waterloo Rapid Transit Corridor Study, Vaughan Corporate Centre and Spadina-York University BRT Corridor studies, the 2002 York Region Transportation Master Plan, various rapid transit planning assignments in Dubai, and the Halifax Transit Oriented Development and High Capacity Transit Opportunities study.

During his career, David participated in international assignments including LRT feasibility studies in Bursa, Turkey; Tampa, Florida; and Bangkok, Thailand, for Toronto Transit Consultants, the former consulting arm of the Toronto Transit Commission, and on rapid transit planning projects in Sao Paulo Brazil for the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, during his time at Tranplan Associates.

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