Transportation Data

The Transportation Division of Statistics Canada collects, publishes and makes available statistics on air, water, road and rail transportation industries and on related traffic and infrastructures.

Summary

Air Transport

The Transportation Division of Statistics Canada maintains records related to the movement of aircraft, passengers and cargo by air and to the activities of Canadian air carriers.

Topics included in these records are:

• financial and operating statistics of Canadian air carriers;
• air traffic and volume of cargo at Canadian airports (passengers and cargo);
• origin and destination of scheduled air passengers travelling within Canada, between Canada and the United States and internationally;
• domestic and international air charters statistics;
• airport activity and traffic flow;
• fares and fare type statistics;
• aircraft utilization.

Water Transport

The Transportation Division of Statistics Canada maintains records related to water transportation, domestic shipping, international seaborne shipping and ports of loading and unloading.

Topics included in these records are:

• financial and operating statistics on water carriers, including employment, fuel consumption, type of service;
• shipping and port activities;
• commodities loaded and unloaded;
• containerized commodities;
• ports of loading and unloading;
• number, type, operating status and registry (flag) of vessels arriving at and leaving Canadian ports;
• foreign port of origin or destination.

Road Transport

The Transportation Division of Statistics Canada maintains records related to road transport in Canada. In addition to programs surveying carriers and owners of registered motor vehicles, certain programs rely on aggregation of provincial and territorial administrative records.

Topics included in these records are:

• financial and operating statistics on motor carriers of freight and of passengers, and on urban transit systems;
• domestic and international commodity origin-destination statistics of the Canadian domiciled for hire trucking industry (domestic and international);
• motor vehicle usage;
• motor vehicle registrations and related licenses;
• gross and net sales of motor fuels;
• financial statistics for couriers, local messengers and taxis.

Rail Transport

The Transportation Division of Statistics Canada maintains records related to rail transportation in Canada and between the United States and Canada.

Topics included in these records are:

• railway financial and operating statistics;
• equipment and length of track;
• fuel consumption and employment statistics;
• freight and passenger traffic;
• freight loaded;
• commodity movement between provinces and to and from U.S. regions.

Additional Information

Documents are stored in machine readable format and also some data are available in the Statistics Canada's CANSIM II database. User summary files and special tabulations can be produced and are available directly from the Transportation Division of Statistics Canada. This material is available electronically on the Communications, transportation and trade Web page of the Statistics Canada Web site.

Quebec Contact(s):
National Capital Region
Statistical Reference Centre
Statistics Canada
Room 1500
Main Building
Holland Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0T6
Fax: 1-877-287-4369
Toll-free (information): 1-800-263-1136
Toll-free (publications): 1-800-267-6677
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-363-7629
E-mail: infostats@statcan.ca
Web site: http://www.statcan.ca/start.html

Advisory Services
Statistical Reference Centre
Statistics Canada
4th Floor
East Tower, Guy Favreau Complex
200 René-Lévesque Boulevard West
Montréal, Quebec  H2Z 1X4
Fax: 1-877-287-4369
Toll-free (information): 1-800-263-1136
Toll-free (publications): 1-800-267-6677
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-363-7629
E-mail: infostats@statcan.ca
Web site: http://www.statcan.ca/start.html

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National Contact(s):
Statistical Reference Centre
Statistics Canada
Room 1500
Main Building
Holland Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0T6
Fax: 1-877-287-4369
Toll-free (information): 1-800-263-1136
Toll-free (publications): 1-800-267-6677
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-363-7629
E-mail: infostats@statcan.ca
Web site: http://www.statcan.ca/start.html