David Cooper has contributed to numerous transformative transportation initiatives across Canada. David is the principal and founder of Leading Mobility Consulting. David has worked on complex and innovative transit projects across Canada ranging from transit feasibility studies for communities exploring public transit to the development and construction of rapid transit projects in Canada’s largest cities.

Through his consultancy David has worked on a series of national reports and strategies including authoring the Canadian Urban Transit Association’s COVID-19 National Recovery Strategy, a foundational plan which has helped to obtain emergency operational funding to maintain transit service, the first national study on women’s travel patterns on public transit and the recent “This is the End of the Line”, a policy report on the need to fix Canada’s broken transit operating funding model.

David firmly believes in supporting and facilitating success for new community builders. Through his work teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, he instructs future planners on transportation policy, planning processes and public consultation.

David’s contributions to city building and transportation have been nationally recognized. He was the recipient of the ‘President’s Award for Young Planner of the Year’ granted by the Canadian Institute of Planners, the ‘Individual Leadership Award’ from the Canadian Urban Transit Association and received Mass Transit’s ‘Top 40 Under 40 Award’ in North America.