Transportation

Description: The Passenger Air Services Price Index is an annual series measuring the price change for base air fares, providing indications of the overall trend of domestic and international fares over time. The index relates to the operations of major Canadian air carriers.

Description: The database can be used in a variety of analyses including, for example, assessing highway capacity and forecasting traffic, evaluating investments in infrastructure, examining trade flows, and analyzing policies such as road pricing and multimodal freight programs.

Description: To obtain more transparency on the operations of railways in Canada, this program measures and reports on eight key performance indicators.

Description: The survey collects data on aircraft movements at airports in Canada with NAV CANADA towers.

Description: This document accompanies the inaugural introductory release of the GSCD and presents the conceptual structure of the railway movement, the data and computation methods, and current limitations.

Description: The purpose of this statistical program is to provide estimates of screened traffic (passengers and non-passengers) at Pre-Board Screening (PBS) checkpoints at Canada's eight largest airports.

Description: This is non-Statistics Canada information.

Description: This is non-Statistics Canada information.

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Users should be aware that Canada's Top for-hire motor carriers of freight covers 76 carriers in the first quarter of 1997 and 74 in the second quarter of 1997, compared to 67 in 1996. Six more general freight carriers and three more specialized freight carriers have reached annual revenues of $25 million or more at the beginning of 1997. One top general freight carrier and one top specialized freight carrier, however, went out-of-business during the second quarter of 1997.

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There were 230 companies reporting to the Statistics Canada passenger bus survey during the first half of 1996. Canada's passenger bus industry is comprised of four types of companies - schedules intercity, school bus, charter and other bus service - which correspond to 1980 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) groupings. It is important to note that this is a relatively new survey instrument, commencing with the first quarter of 1995. More detail regarding the survey and the number of companies reporting is contained in the Survey Notes.

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To provide users with a complete picture of the financial and operational activities associated with Small For-hire Motor Carriers of Freight and Owner Operators in Canada.

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Canadian ports handled a record 51.3 Mt of international freight in the first quarter of 1997, an increase of 5.1% over the same period in 1996. Total international and domestic traffic increased just 2.4% to 61.1 Mt, as a 10.1% decline in domestic freight partially offset the gain in international traffic. Domestic traffic, at 9.8 Mt, sank to its lowest recorded first quarter level.

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In the second half of 1996, the operating ratio (operating expenses divided by operating revenues) for all Canada-based for-hire motor carriers of freight with annual revenues larger than $1 million remained at 0.94 when compared with the last six months of 1995. The operating ratio of specialized freight carriers remained at 0.93 between the second half of 1996.

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Despite the benefits of taking public transit, Canadians are using it less and less. In 1996, each Canadian took an average of about 46 trips on some form of urban transit, the lowest level since 1970 when the average fell to 43 trips per person. In contrast, Canadians were using mass transit at three times that rate at the end of the Second World War.

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In 1995, 200 marine carriers based in Canada, including for-hire marine carriers, private carriers and government carriers, owned and operated a fleet of 1,760 vessels and employed 21,940 people with wages and salaries of $1,083 billion.

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Reapeating the success of the previous year, Canadians ports once again broke the tonnage record for international cargo handled in 1996. International cargo totaled 260.3 million tonnes, a slight increase of 2.2.% compared to the peak established in 1995. In 1996, the bulk of the growth in Canadian marine activity can be attributed to international unloading of goods.

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The railway industry in Canada is highly dependent on factors affecting the production of and demand for bulk commodities. Five commodities -- coal, iron ore, wheat, potash and containers-on-flat-cars represent about half of the total tonnage transported domestically to export oriented destinations.

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The paper is organized into four sections. The first section introduces the data used for the analysis while the second provides a brief synopsis of the role of trucking in the Canadian economy. The third section contains a summary of the changes that have come about, at least partly, due to deregulation. The fourth section examines changes in trucking activity under the FTA and NAFTA.

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This study examined provincial motor vehicle registration data files to provide new estimates on rental vehicle fleets in the last decade, with a special focus on turnover and management of inventories during the pandemic. The estimates are presented first for British Columbia and will be presented for other regions of Canada as data become available.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic presents users with a visual representation of the latest released annual data on railway transportation in Canada.

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This infographic presents the situation of Level I and II Canadian airlines during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020 (number of passengers carried, passenger load factor, variation of share of total goods revenues in total operating revenues).

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This infographic presents the situation of Canadian airports during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020 (total air passengers traffic from 1976 to 2020 and year-over-year percentage change, top 3 airports for passengers traffic, top 3 airports for cargo traffic).

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This infographic presents the situation of airports with flight schools during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020 (top 5 airports in aircrafts movements, local movements versus itinerant movements: total and year-over-year percentage change, airports least affected by the pandemic).

Description: This infographic presents the situation of cargo and passenger hub airports during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020 (airports with the largest decreases in itinerant movements, cargo hubs versus passengers hubs: total itinerant movements and year-over-year percentage change, domestic cargo and total cargo traffic: tonnage and year-over-year percentage change).

Description: The Canadian Centre for Tourism and Transportation Statistics is releasing an infographic to present an overview of Canadian Passenger Bus and Urban Transit industry in 2019. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the urban transit industry are also presented in this infographic. This snapshot highlights the urban transit industry and includes total operating expenditures and revenue, wages and fuel consumption.

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This article presents the data sources and methodology for the Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). The FRSPI measures the monthly and the quarterly changes in the price of freight rail services in Canada. The index is an indicator of economic activity in the freight rail services industry, as well as a tool that can be utilized by the industry for cost monitoring, contract assessment and benchmark comparisons.

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This report presents statistics on airline traffic such as the volume of passengers and cargo at Canadian airports.

Description: This document is part of the Grain Supply Chain Dashboard: Real-Time Grain Movement by Rail (GSCD) data visualization product. It accompanies the GSCD and presents the conceptual structure of the railway movement, the data and computation methods, and current limitations. The GSCD is released as an experimental data product.

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This project is an evidence-based measurement of mobility for key corridors in our urban centers across Canada. Transport Canada computes a mobility indicator to assess the impact of urban bottlenecks in Canada’s strategic trade corridors and the economy. This information is important for practitioners and policymakers as it goes beyond anecdotal evidence on a subject affecting millions of Canadians and our trade corridors. The mobility indicator in question is the Travel Time Index (TTI). It is the ratio of the measured travel time to the free-flow travel time. Free-flow travel time is measured overnight, when drivers are free to drive at their desired speed because of low volume traffic conditions.

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Statistics Canada collects and publishes a large amount of data on all modes of transportation. For example, do you know the level of shipments of commodities last quarter? Where are the key access points to the United States and which commodities are moving through them? How can you determine market share? This guide will familiarize you with the sources for answers to these questions and more and show you how to access them. It will allow you to take advantage of what Statistics Canada has to offer you. The guide is divided into two parts. Part I contains a description of each survey at Statistics Canada that has transportation related information. Each survey is listed with the survey name, a person to contact, phone number and fax number, a brief description of the transportation related information in the survey, the periodicity of the survey and the publication catalogue number, name and price where the information can be found.

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Western Canadian grain farmers are seeing profound economic and technological changes in their industry. This activity looks at the ways in which these trends have affected grain elevators and grain transportation in Western Canada.

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This study deals with the introduction of the newly developed North American Industry Classification system (NAICS), and its impact on the Trucking surveys at Statistics Canada. This paper provides an overview of the uses and needs of an industry classification system and the processes involved in the collection, implementation and dissemination of trucking statistics based on this new classification.

Description: This survey collects data on monthly retail sales (in dollars and in units) of new motor vehicles sold in Canada.

Description: The purpose of this business survey is to provide estimates of passengers enplaned and deplaned and cargo loaded and unloaded at Canadian airports.

Description: The Air Passenger Origin and Destination, Domestic Journeys survey provides estimates of the number of passengers traveling on scheduled domestic commercial flights by directional origin and destination.

Description: The Air Passenger Origin and Destination - Canada/United States survey provides estimates of the number of passengers traveling on scheduled commercial flights between Canada and the United States by directional origin and destination.

Description: The survey covers the scheduled services operated within, into or out of Canada by medium-size and smaller-size Canadian and non-Canadian air carriers. Data on the origin and destination of passengers from the reporting carrier's system are collected.