1. Past, Present and Future
The Road Authority
Past, Present and Future

2. Agenda Background (Past) TRA Today (Present) What’s Next (Future)
Benefits for Municipalities
Opportunities for Municipalities
Snapshot of Other OGRA Member Services
How to contact TRA
Questions

3. Background (Past)
Created as a Member Service of the Ontario Good Roads Association (OGRA) in 1997.
Designed to consolidate information about products, services, standards and technical solutions used in Ontario Public Works.
Provides MTO and municipalities with the technology to manage their pre-qualified products & documents lists.
MTO seeded TRA with Designated Sources of Material (DSM) products.

4. TRA Today (Present)
TRA continues to publish the MTO DSM and the Durham Region Approved Products Lists.
TRA has over 600 member companies and over 10,000 products listed - a central repository for product information.
Achieving Product Management Committee (PMC) classification is a priority for most companies.
The PMC is a panel of technical experts that review and classify each product using a consistent process.

5. TRA Today (Present) Consultants Owner’s Needs Contractors
Municipal Expertise
Suppliers

6. What’s Next (Future)
Continue to build out new services;
Specifications, standards and documents library.
Integration with Tendering Software (OIBC)
Tender Item Analysis
Integrate Product Videos and Project Details
Improved Management Tools for Companies
Redesign and upgrade of DSM/MPL System
TRA Mobile App.
Forum for knowledge sharing between municipalities.
Expand product categories to cover more infrastructure.

7. Durham List - Precast

8. Durham MPL

9. Benefits For Municipalities
TRA looks after your Administrative Data and maintains it for historical purposes.
TRA provides your published lists with broad disbursement to industry and stakeholders.
Access to value-added information from the PMC.
Unlimited users in your municipality with various security levels.
Your lists can be pre-loaded.
Complete document management and publishing system which can be linked to external documents (including OPS).
Support from TRA staff.
Cost: $0.00

10. Opportunities for Municipalities
This is YOUR System!!
TRA was developed by municipalities for municipalities and MTO to consolidate product related information.
As we redesign the Municipal Products Lists, your input and guidance will be important to ensure that TRA delivers what your municipality needs!

11. Other OGRA Services Visit www.ogra.org
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Hot mix Liaison
Concrete Liaison
Minimum Maintenance Standards
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12. Thank you!
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