Transportation

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Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). Quarterly data are available from Q1 2018. The table presents quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The current base period for the index is 2018=100.

Description: Number of units and total sales of new motor vehicles by type of vehicle, annual.

Description: Quarterly data on new motor vehicle registration by fuel type, vehicle type and number of vehicles, for Canada and provinces.

Description: Annual sum of the quarterly data on new motor vehicle registration by fuel type, vehicle type and number of vehicles, for Canada and provinces.

Description: Quarterly data on zero-emission vehicle registration by fuel type, vehicle type and number of vehicles, Canada, the provinces, census metropolitan areas and census sub-divisions.

Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical data on new motor vehicle registrations. It allows the user to compare and analyze new motor vehicle registrations data by fuel type, geography and vehicle type. This web application is updated quarterly.

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As part of the Transport Canada Multimodal Safety and Security Programs Oversight Delivery Indicators, this table contains, starting with the first quarter of the 2019-2020 federal government fiscal year, the type and number of enforcement actions, by programs.

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As part of the Transport Canada Multimodal Safety and Security Programs Oversight Delivery Indicators, this table contains, starting with the first quarter of the 2019-2020 federal government fiscal year, the type and number of immediate risk reduction measures, by programs.

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As part of the Transport Canada Multimodal Safety and Security Programs Oversight Delivery Indicators, starting with the four quarters of the 2017-2018 federal government fiscal year, this table contains the number of completed inspections by programs, activities and administrative regions.

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As part of the Transport Canada Multimodal Safety and Security Programs Oversight Delivery Indicators, this table contains, starting with the first quarter of the 2017-2018 federal government fiscal year, the number of employees delivering oversight, by programs.

Description: Annual railway industry property accounts summary of regional companies (land, total ways and structures, total equipment and miscellaneous property accounts), by balance at beginning and at end of year.

Description: Railway industry length of track operated at the end of the year (total line owned and total line operated under lease, contract, trackage rights or jointly owned), by company (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Via Rail, regional railways).

Description: Railway industry length of track operated at the end of the year by area (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, etc.), by company (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Via Rail and Regional railways).

Description: Annual railway industry diesel fuel consumption (freight, passenger, yard switching and work train diesel and total cost of diesel fuel).

Description: Railway industry diesel fuel consumption by area (Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, etc.).

Description: Annual railway industry operating statistics (total train-kilometres, total locomotive unit-kilometres, total freight car-kilometres, total passenger car-kilometres, gross tonne-kilometres, freight train cars, contents and cabosses, gross tonne-kilometres, passenger train cars and total train hours), by mainline companies (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific and Via Rail).

Description: Railway industry operating statistics of regional companies (total train-kilometres, total locomotive unit-kilometres, total freight car-kilometres, total passenger car-kilometres, gross tonne-kilometres, freight train cars, contents and cabosses, gross tonne-kilometres, passenger train cars and total train hours), annual.

Description: Annual railway industry summary statistics on freight and passenger transportation (revenue freight by tonnes, by tonne-kilometres, by average haul on each railway; revenue and non-revenue freight by tonnes, by tonne-kilometres, by average haul on each railway; revenue passengers by passengers, by passenger-kilometres, by average passenger journey per ticket; transportation services, averages by cars per freight train, by car per passenger train, by freight carload, by empty freight car-kilometres, by freight train speed).

Description: Annual railway industry inventory of equipment in service (total locomotives, total freight cars and total passenger cars), by mainline companies (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail).

Description: Annual railway industry inventory of equipment in service summary of regional companies (total locomotives, total freight cars and total passenger cars).

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It is generally assumed that for most workers, commuting is at best a necessary evil, at worst, a daily nightmare. But is that really the case? Using the latest data from the 2005 General Social Survey on time use, this study identifies the main factors associated with a more or less pleasant commute, focusing in particular on the mode of transportation used.

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This article presents information about access to transportation by different age groups; then, it discusses the impact of having either more or less access to transportation on seniors' activities and quality of life. Finally, the article examines the characteristics of those seniors who are most likely to have limited access to transportation, and are thus most likely to face restrictions in their everyday activities.

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Our vast transportation system - roads, railways, airports, ports and vehicles - provides people and businesses with services that are fundamental to our standard of living and well-being.

At the same time, transportation is a concern to Canadians from an environmental perspective. From greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution from burning fossil fuels to the fragmentation of wildlife habitat by transportation infrastructure, transportation activities impact the environment locally and globally.

This article examines transportation activity in Canada and its environmental impacts - and the efforts of governments, businesses and citizens to help mitigate them - by painting a statistical portrait of Transportation in Canada.

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This study reviews the transportation industry in 2005 focusing on trucking, aviation and railways components. Emerging and continuing trends for each component is examined for such thing as gross domestic product (GDP), employment and other variables specific to each mode of transport. This study also looks at a regional dimension of this industry.

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The report examined the location of jobs in 27 census metropolitan areas, paying particular attention to developments in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa-Hull, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. It also analysed the modes commuters used to travel to work, emphasising public transit and car (as driver or passenger) commute modes.

While Canadian metropolitan areas continue to be characterized by a strong concentration of jobs in the downtown core, employment grew faster in the suburbs of Canada's largest metropolitan areas than in the city centres between 1996 and 2001. One characteristic of increasing employment in suburban locations is the shifting of manufacturing activities from the core of the city to the suburbs. Retail trade also shifted away from the central core towards more suburban locations. Relatively few workers employed outside the city centre commuted on public transit, rather, most drove or were a passenger in a car. This tendency to commute by car increased the farther the job was located from the city centre.

Furthermore commute patterns have become more complex, with growth in suburb-to-suburb commutes outpacing traditional commute paths within the city centre, and between the city centre and suburbs. Commuters travelling from suburb to suburb were also much more likely to drive than take public transit.

Despite the decentralization of jobs occurring in the metropolitan areas, public transit did not lose its share of commuters between 1996 and 2001. While more car traffic headed to jobs in the suburbs, a larger share of commuters heading for the city centre took public transit. This kept the total share of commuters who took public transit stable between 1996 and 2001.

The report also found that jobs in the downtown core were higher skilled and higher paid, and that earnings increased faster for jobs in the city centre between 1996 and 2001.

The report uses the 1996 and 2001 censuses of Canada.

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This study tests the perception that road congestion is growing in Canada, especially with the competition for road space between cars and trucks. It provides a view of the characteristics of the truck and car population on the roads in Canada based primarily on the registration and performance data available from the Canadian Vehicle Survey.

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This study examines production and sales trends in automotive and light duty vehicle manufacturing in Canada and the United States from 1999 to 2004. It focuses on production and sales of sport utility vehicles.

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The responsibility for providing transportation infrastructure is shared between federal, provincial and municipal levels of government. Over the last decade, the federal government adopted policies of divestiture and reduced subsidies to transportation infrastructure investment and operations. These policies helped curb the growing public debt, but it would appear that transportation bore a disproportionate share of cutbacks. Federal transportation expenditures as a percentage of total federal expenditures fell from 2.8% in 1991/92 to 1.3% in 2001/02.

The impacts of fiscal restraint are uneven. Gross federal spending on all modes, and total revenues from both tax and non-tax sources were analysed and reported in 2000 constant dollars. Real federal transportation spending decreased 57.3% from $5,392 million in 1991/92 to $2,302 million in 2001/02. Total revenues from transport kept pace with, or exceeded inflation. As a result, the financial impact on the federal treasury went from an annual deficit of $547 million in support of transport, to a surplus of $2.4 billion taken out of the transportation sector.

This paper highlights the shifting federal support for transportation in the 1990's. As the burden for providing infrastructure has fallen heavier on transport users and other levels of government, the growing federal surplus of taxes and fees from transportation over expenditures in this sector is attracting more attention.

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This paper examines the likelihood of immigrants and the Canadian-born to use public transit. It also discusses implications for public transit services. It uses data from the 1996 and 2001 censuses of Canada.

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Aviation passenger traffic in Calgary and Edmonton were roughly equal in 1963 but the Calgary market has grown much larger than that of Edmonton. Reasons for growth in these two aviation markets often returned to the debate over a divided aviation market as the result of two airports (Edmonton) versus one at their major competitor (Calgary). It was often suggested that if flights could be consolidated into one airport, «market share» would cease to be lost to the competing airport.

Major socio-economic variables used in airport passenger forecasting are examined to see if they help to explain the different growth patterns. Population does not appear to explain the differences. Income may be one explanatory factor, with the larger concentration of higher incomes in Calgary. The immigrant population of Calgary has grown faster in the last decade and net migration to Calgary from elsewhere in Canada has been higher--both could stimulate travel. With respect to economic activity stimulating aviation, Calgary has recently led Edmonton in the value of building permits, full-time employment and head office employment. While the socio-economic variables have favoured Calgary, especially in recent years, the decline of Edmonton's passenger aviation traffic, relative to Calgary, has slowed. This has occurred after the moving of most commercial aviation passenger flights from Edmonton City Centre airport to Edmonton International airport. This may support the position that Edmonton was losing aviation passenger traffic to Calgary before the consolidation of commercial aviation flights at Edmonton international airport.

Description: The survey collects origin and destination data for passenger and cargo charter operations of commercial air carriers offering charter services.

Description: The Fare Basis Survey represents a regular and comprehensive source of fare type-specific data on passengers, revenues, and average air fares.

Description: This survey collects financial and operational data from the Canadian Level I and II air carriers.

Description: This survey collects financial and operational data from the Canadian Level I, II, III and IV air carriers.

Description: The survey collects data on aircraft movements in Canada.

Description: This survey collects data from common carrier railways operating in Canada which are essential for the analysis of the Railway Transport Industry and the assessment of its contribution to the Canadian economy. These data provide input into Canada's System of National Accounts for the calculation of the Gross Domestic Product and are used by various Government Departments to develop policy and to monitor the industry.

Description: This survey collects data from common carrier railways operating in Canada which are essential for the analysis of the Railway Transport Industry and the assessment of its contribution to the Canadian economy. These data provide input into Canada's System of National Accounts for the calculation of the Gross Domestic Product and are used by various Government Departments to develop policy and to monitor the industry.

Description: This survey collected data from the seven largest railway companies operating in Canada.

Description: The survey collects data on railway commodities carried by Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) Rail.

Description: The purpose of the Trucking Commodity Origin and Destination Survey is to measure the commodity movements and the outputs of the Canadian trucking industry.