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Transportation in Canada 2001

Table of Contents

Report Highlights

Addendum

1. Introduction

2. Transportation and the Canadian Economy

3. Government Spending on Transportation

4. Transportation Safety and Security

5. Transportation Energy and Environment

6. Transportation and Employment

7. Transportation and Trade

8. Transportation and Tourism

9. Transportation Infrastructure

10. Structure of the Transportation Industry

11. Freight Transportation

12. Passenger Transportation

13. Price, Productivity and Financial Performance in the Transportation Sector

Minister of Transport

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Annexes

11 FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION

Freight transportation expenditures grow and shrink with the overall economy.
Freight transportation volumes are a barometer of production.

Previous chapters have given a sense of the changes that have delimited freight transportation needs. This chapter looks at freight transportation, both domestic and international freight traffic, demonstrating the use made of each mode of transportation.