Transportation

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Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). Monthly data are available from January 2018. The table presents month-to-month 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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Annual 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 flight - related revenue, all other revenue, total, operating expenses, maintenance, ground property and equipment, aircraft operations, maintenance, flight equipment, depreciation, all other expenses, net income (loss), operating income (loss), net, non-operating income (loss), net, interest and discount income, interest expenses, all other non-operating income (loss), net, provision for income taxes, and income (loss) before provision for income taxes). Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined, Level III, and Levels I to III combined. All data are expressed in thousands of dollars.

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Annual civil aviation balance sheet (details on assets include total assets—current assets, all other financial assets, operating property and equipment and non-operating property and equipment, accumulated depreciation and amortization, and all other assets; details on liabilities and capital include total liabilities and capital, total liabilities—current liabilities, advances from associated companies and/or shareholders, long-term debt and other non-current liabilities, deferred income taxes, and all other liabilities, and total shareholders’ equity—capital stock, retained earnings, and all other items). Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined, Level III, and Levels I to III combined. All data are expressed in thousands of dollars, except for the number of carriers included, which is expressed in full.

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Annual civil aviation financial performance indicators (details include liquidity ratios—current ratio, debt structure ratio; solvency ratios—debt-to-asset (debt) ratio, debt-to-equity (leverage) ratio; and, profitability ratios—operating ratio, operating profit margin, profit margin, return on assets, return on investment). Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined, Level III, and Levels I to III combined.

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

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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) 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, Level III, and Levels I to III combined. All data are expressed in thousands.

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Annual data on civil aviation passenger and goods revenue, by sector (total, domestic and international, domestic and international), by province and territory. Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I to III combined. All data are expressed in thousands of dollars.

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Annual data on civil aviation wages and salaries paid, by sector (total, domestic and international, domestic and international), by province and territory. Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I to III combined. All data are expressed in thousands of dollars.

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Annual data on civil aviation employment. Details on employment include the average number of employees, and wages and salaries expenses, by category of employment (total, average number of employees, pilots and co-pilots, other flight personnel, general management and administration employees, maintenance personnel, aircraft and traffic servicing personnel, and all other employees). Data are for Canadian air carriers, Levels I and II combined, Level III, and Levels I to III combined. Data on wages and salaries are expressed in thousands of dollars.

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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Monthly aircraft movements (itinerant and local) for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

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Monthly aircraft movements (civil itinerant, civil local, military itinerant, military local), for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

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Monthly itinerant movements by type of operation (Level I-III and foreign carriers, Level IV-VI, other commercial, private, government civil and government military), for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

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Monthly itinerant movements by instrument flight rules (IFR), visual flight rules (VFR) and runway 88 movements, for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

Description: Monthly itinerant movements by type of power plant (jet, turbo-propellers, piston, helicopters and gliders), for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

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Monthly itinerant movements by aircraft weight group, broken down by maximum take-off weight categories ranging from under 2,000kgs to over 136,000kgs, for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

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Monthly itinerant movements (domestic, transborder and other international) by type of operation, (Level I-III and foreign air carriers, Level IV-VI, other commercial, private, government civil and government military), for airports with NAV CANADA towers or flight service stations and other selected non-NAV CANADA airports.

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Vast distances, dependence on trade and low population density (compared to the United States and Europe) make transportation vitally important in Canada. The nation's travel and tourism patterns, both domestically and internationally, are a mirror image of Canadian business, lifestyles and quality of life.

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This article provides estimates of the percentage of seniors who are licensed to operate a motor vehicle. It describes the health characteristics of these license holders and reviews research relating to older drivers.

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This article examines various facets of car use among seniors and highlights differences between those living in urban and rural areas.

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With respect to the U.S -Canada Open Skies agreement as it pertains to air passenger traffic, the following questions need to be examined. What are the terms of the agreement as they related to air passenger travel? What were the new transborder city-pair routes that came into existence following the signing of the agreement? What were the market shares that U.S. and Canadian companies concerned after the three-year transition period of "Open Skies" and what was the composition of these shares? What is the possible impact of the agreement on various stakeholders?

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The purpose of this paper is to outline the results of preliminary research into the use of a potentially new economic indicator for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - railway carloadings.

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International shipping is a highly competitve industry, especially the shipping of containers. Shipping lines are constantly trying to increase productivity by reducing costs and by attracting larger volumes of containers. In response to spiraling container freight rates, the lines have been driven to increase economies of scale. These economies are expected to be achieved through largers ships and fewer, more efficient port calls. Larger ships and client demands for frequent service have encouraged innovative alliances and pooling agreements among lines to maximize the use of this larger capacity.

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Issues affecting the transportation industry impact on the day to day concerns of Canadians. Changes in policy affecting transportation and trade have altered the landscape for the primary mode of commodity transport, trucking. Economic factors typically affecting the demand for trucking services are - the volume of production of goods for domestic and foreign consumption and exports and imports, interest rates and the value of the Canadian dollar. The supply of truck transport in turn is affected by the price of inputs, namely labour (drivers and helpers) and capital (straight trucks, road tractors and semi- and full-trailers). These variables are key determinants of the day to day activities of the industry.

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"If you've got it, a truck brought it." When you stop to think about it, an increasing number of the things we use are transported to market for at least part of the way, by truck. The trucking industry is becoming increasingly important to the transportation sector of the Canadian economy. This growing importance can be attributed to several factors including the deregulation of transportation, the surge in trade with the United States and the evolving structure of the industry itself. It is within this context that concern for labour issues, including a driver shortage, has been voiced. The demands on drivers have increased, driver training is inadequate and as a result, there is a perceived shortage of qualified drivers. This study examines employment in the trucking industry from 1988 to 1994 by looking at various sources of employment data at Statistics Canada.

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Using just about any yardstick (tonnage, value of goods, revenue earned, tons/kilometres), it is difficult to dispute the recent growth in air cargo traffic. Factors ranging from industrial globalization to business practices like "just-in-time" inventory management and aggressive off-shore marketing of Canadian goods and services have contributed to this increased activity. As local groups contemplate the purchase or lease of community airports, they are being advised to secure a solid cargo base in addition to passenger traffic.

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signed the "Open Skies" Agreement allowing both Canadian and American airlines to establish direct links between any pair of cities located on either side of the border. This opening of air space comes within the scope of the general movement towards free trade with our main trading partner and will stimulate competition among North American air carriers for the largest transborder market in the world. The outcome of the agreement on companies' long-term share of the market remains to be seen. The agreement provides for a three-year transition period to allow carriers to adjust to new market conditions. Although all the agreement's provisions have not yet come into effect, changes in the industry are already noticeable. Since it would be premature to draw conclusions about the impact of the agreement, we focus first on the effect of the pact on the market share that American and Canadian companies have cornered after a year of "Open Skies". Secondly, we study the possible impact of the agreement on various stakeholders. This analysis uses data from Statistics Canada's International Travel Survey (ITS).

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.