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November 01, 2021
The Canadian Tourism Activity Tracker is an experimental data product designed to help support Canadians and businesses as they navigate through the uncharted waters of a global health crisis. As part of an effort to shift from measuring impacts of the pandemic to assessing the recovery, it provides an overall picture of the relative performance of tourism-related activity in Canada over time. The Tracker combines data from numerous sources including counts of international arrivals, aircraft movements and rail passengers as well as hotel occupancy rates, restaurant sales and reservation… more
June 01, 2021
The report Transportation in Canada 2020 gives 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
The 2020 report also informs Canadians about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transportation demand, challenges faced by the transportation system and different measures taken… more
April 15, 2021
This new data dashboard provides a convenient and interactive means of extracting and analyzing current and historical data from the Monthly Railway Carloadings Survey.
What can you do with this tool?
This interactive tool can be used to drill down into the data to reveal a wide range of insights about the railway industry, from the most recent survey estimates to historical results going back to 1999.
On the main page, you can customize, visualize and display data in graphical and tabular form for all traffic types (e.g. inter-modal) and for different geography as well as units of… more
March 01, 2021
Starting with January 2021, Statistics Canada combined its leading indicators of non-resident visitors and Canadian residents returning from other countries by automobile and by air. Counts are based on two sources of administrative data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), available within days after the reference month.
The first source is counts of cross-border travel by automobile through 111 land ports equipped with the automated Integrated Primary Inspection Line (IPIL) system. These counts are a subset of United States (US) residents and returning Canadians entering Canada… more
January 15, 2021
Urban mobility refers to a person’s ability to move around the city where they live and work. Congestion on city roads reduces mobility, which is not only an individual inconvenience but also has an economic impact. While the amount of additional time spent in traffic, excess fuel consumed, and other costs of congestion may be large in Canada, the full impact is not known. Using key indicators to evaluate congestion, its cost, and its impact on the economy is the first step to understanding the magnitude of the problem.
To that end, Transport Canada is now using a key mobility indicator -… more
November 15, 2020
The project report (available only in French) was published in August 2020. The project is an initiative of the Comité permanent sur la sécurité des bateaux de pêche du Québec.
The study follows up on the findings of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's review in 2012, and a 2017 Globe and Mail investigation that found that the fishing industry was the deadliest job sector in Canada.
The study was divided in three sections:
An analysis of accidents that involved fishing vessels in Quebec between 2005 and 2015;
A cost analysis of the job-related and most common injuries in Quebec'… more
July 24, 2020
Transport Canada would like to announce a change to the Weekly Rail Performance Indicators, to include "Chemicals or allied products" as a distinct service type in the 'Cars that have not moved, 48 hours or greater' metrics. This service type will include all Standard Transportation Commodity Code (STCC) 28 commodities not otherwise reported under ethanol or fertilizer. This change will enable greater transparency into rail service for the chemicals or allied products sector.
Introduced in transitional provisions in the Transportation Modernization Act (TMA), 2018, class… more
June 23, 2020
The Transportation in Canada 2019 Overview Report is now available online on the Transport Canada Website. The report gives 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.
The 2019 report also informs Canadians about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the… more
May 01, 2020
On January 25, Canada confirmed its first case of COVID-19. Within two months, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread across the country, affecting the Canadian transportation industry, and many other parts of the economy. The Canadian Economic Dashboard and COVID-19 dashboard from Statistics Canada presents specific indicators to monitor the impact of the pandemic on Canada's economic activity.
The dashboard includes 16 indicators, including air and railway transportation, and travel. It lets users track the impact of COVID-19 over time, and will be updated as new data and analysis… more
March 01, 2020
In January 2020 Statistics Canada was pleased to announce the availability of the new Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). This index is a series that provides monthly and quarterly estimates of price changes for the mainline freight rail industry in Canada.
The FRSPI measures the price changes for delivering a carload of a certain commodity and of a specific weight, on a specific distance (specific origin and destination) and under certain terms of shipment. For example, the cost of transporting forest products by rail in Canada increased by 2.3 % from January 2019 to January… more