Transportation

Description: For-hire motor carrier freight services price index (FHMCFSPI) by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Quarterly data are available from the second quarter of 2007. The table presents quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (2021=100).

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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.

Description: Types of vehicles, and types and number of charging stations owned by Canadian households. The data are from the Households and the Environment Survey.

Description: Percentage of Canadian households that own various types of vehicles. That data are from the Households and the Environment Survey.

Description: Type and number of vehicle charging stations owned by Canadian households. The data are from the Households and the Environment Survey.

Description: This bulletin presents the most up-to-date available information extracted from all of the Aviation Statistics Centre's surveys. Regular features include releases on principal statistics for Canada's major air carriers, airport data, fare basis statistics and traffic data for Canada's most important markets.

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).

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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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.

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

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Presented in almanac style, the 2012 Canada Year Book contains more than 500 pages of tables, charts and succinct analytical articles on every major area of Statistics Canada's expertise. The Canada Year Book is the premier reference on the social and economic life of Canada and its citizens.

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Despite the elimination of tariff barriers between Canada and the United States, the volume of trade between the two countries has been less than would be expected if there were no impediments. While considerable work has been done to gauge the degree of integration between the Canadian and U.S. economies through trade, relatively little analysis has parsed out the underlying costs for cross-border trade. The costs of crossing the border can be divided into formal tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, and the cost of the transport system itself. This paper focuses on the latter by estimating the cost of shipping goods by truck between Canada and the U.S. during the 2004-to-2009 period. The analysis assesses the degree to which costs to ship goods by truck to and from the U.S. exceed those within Canada by measuring the additional costs on a level and an ad valorem basis. The latter provides an estimate of the tariff equivalent transportation cost that applies to cross-border trade. These costs are further broken down into fixed and variable (line-haul) costs. Higher fixed costs are consistent with border delays and border compliance costs which are passed on to the consumers of trucking services. Higher line-haul costs may result from difficulties obtaining backhauls for a portion of the trip home. Such difficulties may stem from trade imbalances and regulations that restrict the ability of Canadian-based carriers to transport goods between two points in the United States.

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This article in the Economic Insights series examines how much crossing the border adds to the cost of moving goods by truck. It quantifies the cost of border delays, border-related compliance costs, and other costs associated with moving goods to and from Canada's main trading partner. It is based on the paper Trucking Across the Border: The Relative Cost of Cross-border and Domestic Trucking, 2004 to 2009, by William Anderson and Mark Brown.

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This service bulletin presents summary information, timely financial and operating statistics and analysis (time series, charts, special tabulations, etc.) covering bus, urban transit, courier and local messengers industry, taxi and limousine services industry and marine transportation.

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

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This study looks at access to and use of public transit in 2007, using data from the Households and the Environment Survey.

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The Canadian Vehicle Survey (CVS) is a voluntary, vehicle-based survey that provides quarterly and annual estimates of road vehicle activity. This includes vehicle-kilometres and passenger-kilometres as well as a number of other elements related to the trip such as sex of driver, time of day and season.

In 2007, the sample size of the CVS was increased in order to address a data gap regarding consumption of fuel for personal use. The CVS was seen as a possible solution to getting better insight into the household component of fuel consumption. By differentiating between types of vehicle use the CVS can provide estimates of fuel consumed for personal and business purposes.

The aims of this report are twofold. The first is to present a national, annual profile of vehicle fuel consumption by type of use. The second is to compare the fuel quantities produced by the CVS with other known data sources, especially those data generated by Statistics Canada. This data comparison will provide grounding for future work using this data. Explanations are put forward to account for discrepancies between the data.

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In this article, we focus on the relationship between the types of neighbourhoods in which people live and the use of cars for daily travel. How much do residents of peripheral areas and low-density (suburban) neighbourhoods depend on cars in their daily lives compared with residents of more "urban" neighbourhoods? To what extent can residents of central neighbourhoods go about their day-to-day business without necessarily using a car? In which metropolitan areas is exclusive use of the automobile most common?

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This article examines driving and commuting patterns from a gender perspective. Trip chaining, the practice of stopping at intermediate points during a journey, is analyzed using data from the 2005 Canadian Vehicle Survey. Next-stage destinations and the number of stops made while driving are compared for men and women.

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.