Thank you, Doug.
Good afternoon. I'm Trevor Webb, the director of transit operations with Pacific Western Transportation. We are a progressive, industry-leading private carrier in Canada, with operations in motor coach charter, scheduled service, and employee transfer. We have significant operations in student busing and municipal transit. Our current inventory of rolling stock is around 3,000 units in Canada. We also operate and maintain the world's largest fleet of hydrogen fuel-cell buses.
PWT, as a private sector leader, ran a comprehensive transit program for the highly successful 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler. This was an undertaking that utilized approximately 150 buses and provided five-minute transit service at any stop 24 hours per day.
I believe that you've been provided a copy of my handout, but allow me to briefly summarize.
We operate transit systems under two-party and, in some cases, three-party contracts. Usually we provide full operations, including maintenance and operations services, and we can provide vehicles if required.
Our relationship with local governments is a more dynamic and proactive partnership than the public sector operations, while allowing the local government complete control over the provision of services. Private companies bring a higher level of expertise, efficiency, and accountability to the management and operation of systems. The contractor usually assumes responsibility for cost control, and the municipality or the local government divests its responsibility for the day-to-day management of an operational system.
Cost savings of between 20% to 30% over publicly operated systems ultimately translate to more efficient transit service to the public, which has to be the goal if we are to encourage higher ridership in Canada.
With that, I'll turn it over to Doug.
Thank you.