Transportation

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).

Description: Annual railway industry employees and employee compensation (average number of employees) by major occupational group (general services, road maintenance, equipment maintenance and transportation).

Description: Annual railway industry summary statistics on employment, by occupational categories (managerial and supervisory; professional, scientific, technical and staff assistants; clerical; running trades; working foremen; craftsmen, tradesmen, lead hands, service workers and helpers; labourers, including building attendants and coach cleaners) and mainline companies (Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail).

Description: Rail industry origin and destination of transported commodities, including provinces and territories, regions, US and Mexico, annual.

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Rail transportation, by country, region or province of origin and destination, total tonnage of containers on flat cars and trailers on flat cars.

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Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). Quarterly data are available from Q1 2018. The current base period for the index is 2018=100.

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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.

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Annual civil aviation operating statistics (passengers, goods carried (kilograms), passenger-kilometres, passenger tonne-kilometres, goods tonne-kilometres, total tonne-kilometres, hours flown) for scheduled and charter services both separately and combined. Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined, Level III, and Levels I to III combined. Data are expressed in thousands, except for the number of carriers included, which is expressed in full.

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Weekly Itinerant aircraft movements (domestic, transborder and international), total of all Canadian airports with NAV CANADA towers.

Description: Monthly screened passenger traffic at the eight largest airports in Canada. Data are derived from the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) Boarding Pass Security System and include screened traffic at pre-board screening checkpoints at the airports.

Description: This data visualization dashboard provides information on the main financial and operational data from Canadian Level I air carriers in an interactive format. The dashboard features information on passengers, load factor, passenger-kilometres, available seat kilometres, hours flown, turbo fuel consumed, and total operating revenue.

Description: This data visualization dashboard provides data on aircraft movements at Canada's major airports and select small airports in an interactive format. It allows users to compare aircraft movements by geography, class of operation, type of operation, sector (domestic, transborder and other international) and the busiest airports by amount of aircraft activity.

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Monthly operating and financial statistics (number of thousands of: passengers, passenger-kilometres, available seat-kilometres, load factor, hours flown, turbo fuel consumed in litres, and total operating revenues) for major Canadian airlines.

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Quarterly civil aviation operating statistics (passengers, goods carried (kilograms), passenger-kilometres, passenger tonne-kilometres, goods tonne-kilometres, total tonne-kilometres, hours flown) for scheduled and charter services both separately and combined, for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined. For scheduled services only, operating statistics also include available seat-kilometres, passenger load factor (percent), available tonne-kilometres and weight load factor (percent). Data are expressed in thousands, except for the number of carriers included, which is expressed in full.

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Quarterly civil aviation operating statistics (passengers, goods carried (kilograms), passenger-kilometres, passenger tonne-kilometres, goods tonne-kilometres, total tonne-kilometres, hours flown) by sector (total domestic and international, domestic, international, transborder (Canada - United States) and other international). Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined. All data are expressed in thousands.

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Quarterly civil aviation financial statistics (total, operating revenue for scheduled and charter services both separately and combined, passenger revenue and goods revenue for both scheduled and charter services, all other operating revenue, total, operating expenses, turbo fuel expenses, wages, salaries and benefits paid, all other operating expenses, net income (loss), operating income (loss), non-operating income (loss) and average number of employees. Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined. All data are expressed in thousands of dollars, except for the average number of employees, which is expressed in full.

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Quarterly civil aviation financial performance indicators (operating ratio, operating profit margin and profit margin), for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined. The operating profit margin and profit margin are expressed in percent.

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Quarterly civil aviation productivity measures (operating revenue per employee and tonne-kilometres flown per employee), for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined. The operating revenue per employee is expressed in dollars.

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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.

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Canada's major container ports have competed successfully against their U.S. counterparts for overseas container traffic. However, the ocean container shipping industry is undergoing changes that will impact on their relationships with ports and competition among ports for container traffic has been fierce. This paper explores how Canadian ports might fare in this increasingly competitive environment, based on their natural and man-made attributes, their competitive stance and their potential to meet the evolving ocean container industry.

The assessment includes a review of the ocean container shipping industry, the North American container market and competing ports in the United States (U.S.). This report uses data from two sources, Statistics Canada's marine international origin/destination (O/D) database and the U.S. Department of Transport Maritime Administration's (MARAD) Annual Import Export Waterborne Databank which is based on Journal of Commerce P.I.E.R.S. data.

The keys to the success of Canadian container ports have been a combination of natural endowments, investments in intermodal facilities and competitive pricing. These factors are likely to continue into the future, however, the competition among container ports is likely to intensify as industry consolidation continues and as publicly funded U.S. intermodal terminal and corridor projects come to fruition.

Description: The purpose of this survey is to measure the size, structure and economic performance of the trucking industry and to analyze its impact on the Canadian economy.

Description: This annual survey provides establishment-oriented industry statistics (such as basic input and output data of the Canadian passenger bus industry) and transportation-oriented statistics (including distance run, passengers and equipment operated).

Description: This monthly survey covers those establishments with annual revenue of $1,000,000 and over as recorded in Passenger Bus Statistics (record number 2743).

Description: This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This survey collects data essential for the statistical analysis of the passenger bus industry and its impact on the Canadian economy. Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Description: This survey collects data from provincial and territorial ministries of Finance on the sales of gasoline, diesel fuels and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for which road taxes were paid.

Description: This annual release provides counts of light road motor vehicles, medium and heavy duty trucks, buses, motorcycles and mopeds, trailers and off-road, construction and farm vehicle registrations obtained from the provincial and territorial governments.

Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect the financial data needed to estimate value-added for the trucking industry and to analyze its impact on the Canadian economy.

Description: The purpose of this survey is to measure road use by light motor vehicles, their fuel consumption and their impact on the environment.

Description: This survey collects data on domestic marine transport, that is vessels involved in the transport of domestic cargo between Canadian ports.

Description: The survey collects financial and operational data from Canadian-domiciled water carriers.