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November 23, 2023
Statistics Canada has recently released 2022 data on motor vehicle registrations, featuring a breakdown of vehicle type by fuel. The following highlights are from the Daily release, available here: Vehicle registrations, 2022
The total number of road motor vehicles registered in Canada was 26.3 million in 2022, edging up 0.3% from 2021. Light-duty vehicles accounted for 91.7% of total registrations in 2022, with multi-purpose vehicles (LDVs) surpassing passenger cars for the first time as the most common vehicle type in Canada.
Electric vehicles continued to grow in popularity and represented… more
September 15, 2023
The demand for motor vehicle fuels continued to rebound in 2022, with gross sales of gasoline in Canada at 42.5 billion litres, up 5.6% from 2021. Fuel sales have reached roughly 95% of the levels from 2019 (44.8 billion litres), before the COVID-19 pandemic. At roughly 18.3 billion litres in 2022, net sales of diesel fuel were just above (+2.4%) the pre-pandemic 2019 level.
After falling to a 20-year low in 2020, gross sales of gasoline rose in 2021 and continued to increase in 2022, as Canadians resumed much of their pre-pandemic travel behaviour when COVID-19-related restrictions were… more
July 12, 2023
We are excited to announce the release of the Transportation in Canada 2022 Annual Report. This report covers the latest developments and challenges in the transportation sector, the innovations and opportunities for a more sustainable and accessible future, as well as the performance of the transportation network. You can find the full report here or browse through the previous annual reports here. We hope you enjoy reading this report and learning more about the transportation issues that matter to you.
April 26, 2023
New freight rail service and performance information that is submitted by rail carriers on a weekly basis is now available at Weekly Rail Performance Indicators. As of April 10, 2023, this new and improved dataset replaced indicators that had been published since December 2018. This significantly expanded set of indicators, including additional geographic dimensions and a broader range of commodities, improves supply chain transparency and provide freight rail users and the public with much more relevant and precise information relating to rail service and performance in Canada. Carrier… more
March 24, 2023
Statistics Canada has launched a new data visualization tool. The Frontier Counts: Interactive Dashboard provides access to data on the number of border crossings in an interactive and customizable format. The counts include only those travelling for tourism-related purposes. The dashboard includes four visualizations: leading indicator of air arrivals, leading indicator of land arrivals, returning Canadians, and visitors to Canada.
December 06, 2022
Statistics Canada has just released a new series on motor vehicle registrations, featuring a breakdown of vehicle type by fuel. The following highlights are from the Daily release, available here.
The total number of road motor vehicles registered in Canada increased to 26.2 million in 2021, up 1.9% over 2020. At 24.1 million, light duty vehicles (LDVs) accounted for 9 out of every 10 motor vehicles registered in 2021, with passenger cars remaining the most common type. However, registrations of multi-purpose vehicles have experienced the most growth over the last five years.
Canadians'… more
September 07, 2022
Statistics Canada has launched the Traffic Flow Dashboard as experimental statistical information on the traffic flow on selected road segments in the cities of Calgary and Toronto.
This dashboard shows traffic count data that is obtained from traffic camera imagery using a computer vision-based system developed in the Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) at Statistics Canada. The system periodically extracts traffic flow images from the Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) of municipal and provincial traffic camera programs. Vehicle detection was implemented using the open… more
July 05, 2022
The report Transportation in Canada 2021 provides an overview of the Canadian transportation sector and includes information on:
the importance of the transportation sector to the economy
the performance of the transportation system from a multimodal perspective
major industry and regulatory developments related to freight, passengers, safety, security, and the environment for all modes of transportation
This year, as is mandated every five years, Transport Canada is publishing a comprehensive version of the Transportation in Canada report to expand upon the traditional reporting and… more
May 18, 2022
Statistics Canada recently released new motor vehicle registration data for the fourth quarter of 2021 in the Daily.
There were 1,646,609 new motor vehicles registered in 2021, increasing 6.5% from 2020. New registrations of multipurpose vehicles, such as sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and crossovers, increased 16.8% in 2021 from 2020, comprising over half (55.6%) of all new registrations. New registrations of passenger cars also increased (+1.2% in 2021), while those of pickup trucks (-6.5%) and vans (-13.9%) declined compared with … more
March 01, 2022
Statistics Canada's Frontier Counts program counts entries into Canada by international travellers at ports of entry by mode of transport, country of residence, type and origin of traveller, and trip duration, as well as counts of automobiles, trucks and other land vehicles entering Canada. This program has been modified with coverage increasing from a subset of 111 ports using an electronic system called the Integrated Primary Inspection Line (IPIL) to all land ports equipped with the IPIL system.
As part of these modifications, new data tables are now available (List of tables) which… more