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PASSENGER
TRANSPORTATION
Automobile Transportation
The Canadian Vehicle Survey referred to in last year's report
has been undertaken to provide much-needed data about transportation
in Canada. With results from the survey, it will be possible to
derive annual estimates of vehicle-kilometres for all vehicles
on the road, including automobiles. Annual estimates for 1999
will be available in the summer of 2000. Among other findings,
the survey results will provide information on automobile use,
such as the purpose and length of each trip, start and finish
times, driver demographics, and number of occupants, not to mention
vehicle type.
The survey frame for the Canadian Vehicle Survey is drawn from
provincial and territorial registration file information on vehicles.
This information is, in itself, a source of valuable information.
As Table 13-4 shows, a total of 16,538,054 light vehicles
(vehicles weighing less than 4,500 kilograms) were registered
in Canada in 1999. More than 85 per cent of these vehicles
were registered in one of four provinces: Ontario (37.3 per cent),
Quebec (23.2 per cent), British Columbia (13.2 per cent) and Alberta
(11.4 per cent). The four Atlantic provinces accounted for 7.5
per cent of the light vehicles, while Manitoba and Saskatchewan
together made up 7.1 per cent. The three territories accounted
for 0.2 per cent.
Dividing the population of each province and territory by the
number of light vehicles registered provides a crude indicator
of the importance of the automobile to Canadians in satisfying
their passenger transportation needs. For the country as a whole,
there was one light vehicle registered for every 1.85 Canadians
in 1999.
At the provincial level, the ranking of persons per vehicle
was as follows: Alberta (1.58), Saskatchewan (1.67), New Brunswick
(1.79), British Columbia (1.84), Ontario (1.87), Nova Scotia (1.89),
Quebec (1.92), Prince Edward Island (1.95), Manitoba (2.02)
and Newfoundland (2.25). Far more than a reflection of regional
economic disparities, the regional rankings might be explained
in terms of a number of factors. These include access to
urban transit systems, population density, age distribution of
local populations, degree of urbanization, relative size of urban
areas, degree of urban sprawl, mix of local economic
activities, level of taxation (including taxes on fuel),
and degree of congestion.
In the territories, Nunavut had a ratio of 12.83 residents
per registered light vehicle, compared with a ratio of
1.38 in the Yukon and 2.49 for Northwest Territories.
Automobile Transportation
- Appendix 13-1 Status of Transborder
Scheduled Air Services by Airline Domicile, 1991 - 1998
Appendix 13-2 Status of Transborder Air
Services as of December 31, 1999
Appendix 13-3 International Air Services
as of December 31, 1999 (excluding Canada-US Transborder
Air Services)
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