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Transportation in Canada 2005 |
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7 ROAD TRANSPORTATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM (NHS)
On September 22, 2005, the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety endorsed the recommendations made by the National Highway System Task Force of a criteria-based National Highway System composed of three categories of route type: Core; Feeder; and, Northern and Remote. As a result of this decision, the NHS encompasses 38,021 km of key linkages:
| Jurisdiction |
Core
Routes |
Feeder
Routes |
Northern
and
Remote
Routes |
Total |
| Yukon |
1,079 km |
- |
948 km |
2,027 km |
| Northwest Territories |
576 km |
- |
847 km |
1,423 km |
| Nunavut |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| British Columbia |
5,861 km |
447 km |
724 km |
7,032 km |
| Alberta |
3,970 km |
217 km |
197 km |
4,384 km |
| Saskatchewan |
2,450 km |
- |
238 km |
2,688 km |
| Manitoba |
982 km |
742 km |
370 km |
2,093 km |
| Ontario |
6,131 km |
706 km |
- |
6,836 km |
| Quebec |
3,448 km |
766 km |
1,436 km |
5,649 km |
| New Brunswick |
993 km |
832 km |
- |
1,825 km |
| Prince Edward Island |
208 km |
188 km |
- |
396 km |
| Nova Scotia |
903 km |
296 km |
- |
1,199 km |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
1,008 km |
298 km |
1,163 km |
2,469 km |
| Total |
27,608 km |
4,490 km |
5,922 km |
38,021 km |
ROAD NETWORK
Beginning with this 2005 Transport Canada Annual Report, and from this point on, road length estimates will be based on information obtained from the National Road Network (NRN). The NRN is a detailed digital map of the public road network in Canada developed by Natural Resources Canada. The first national coverage was made available in March 2005 and represented the network as it existed in 2003. It can be downloaded for free at: http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/search.do?produit=nrnc1&language=en.
The advantages of using the NRN as opposed to the source used in the past are:
- The NRN covers only the public road network in Canada making it more consistent with historical estimates of road length.
- The map is a non-proprietary source making it easier to share, upgrade and enhance.
- It has an estimate of the number of traffic lanes per road segment so that estimates of lane-kilometres and two-lane equivalent kilometres can be constructed.
- It identifies roads under provincial and local jurisdiction separately.
- The map has information on the type of surface (e.g., paved versus unpaved).
Table 7-1 shows that there were over one million two-lane equivalent lane-kilometres of public road in Canada (a lane-kilometre measures the number of lanes of traffic on each section of road; for example, if four lanes of traffic exist on a one-kilometre section of road, there are four lane-kilometres (i.e., four lanes x one kilometre). The same section also represents two kilometres of two-lane equivalent highway (i.e., four lane-kilometres divided by two).
TABLE 7-1: LENGTH OF PUBLIC ROAD NETWORK IN CANADA
| |
Length (two-lane equivalent thousand km) |
Provinces Territories share of total (per cent) |
Percentage distribution |
| |
Paved |
Unpaved |
Total |
Paved |
Unpaved |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
10.6 |
8.6 |
19.3 |
1.8 |
55.2 |
44.8 |
| Prince Edward Island |
4.3 |
1.8 |
6.0 |
0.6 |
70.8 |
29.2 |
| Nova Scotia |
18.1 |
9.0 |
27.1 |
2.6 |
66.8 |
33.2 |
| New Brunswick |
19.5 |
12.0 |
31.5 |
3.0 |
61.9 |
38.1 |
| Quebec |
81.5 |
63.2 |
144.7 |
13.9 |
56.3 |
43.7 |
| Ontario |
119.8 |
71.1 |
191.0 |
18.3 |
62.8 |
37.2 |
| Manitoba |
19.3 |
67.3 |
86.6 |
8.3 |
22.3 |
77.7 |
| Saskatchewan |
29.5 |
198.7 |
228.2 |
21.9 |
12.9 |
87.1 |
| Alberta |
61.7 |
164.6 |
226.3 |
21.7 |
27.3 |
72.7 |
| British Columbia |
48.2 |
22.9 |
71.1 |
6.8 |
67.8 |
32.2 |
| Yukon |
2.2 |
3.5 |
5.8 |
0.6 |
38.5 |
61.5 |
| Northwest Territories |
0.9 |
3.6 |
4.5 |
0.4 |
19.2 |
80.8 |
| Nunavut |
- |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
| Total |
415.6 |
626.7 |
1,042.3 |
100.0 |
39.9 |
60.1 |
Note: Estimates are not comparable with figures reported in previous annual reports.
Source: National Road Network (Edition 1.00)
Four provinces — Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta — account for 75 per cent of the total length. Saskatchewan and Alberta account for half of the unpaved network (which represents three fifths of the total network length) while Ontario and Quebec account for nearly half of the paved network.
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