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For the 4.5- to 15-tonne trucks, 88.9% of vehicle-kilometres were intra-province trips, 4.9% were inter-province, 2.8% were between Canada and the US and 3.4% made outside of Canada. For the trucks over 15 tonnes, 59.1% of vehicle-kilometres were intra-province trips, 20% inter-province trips, 13.8% Canada-US trips and 7.1% trips made outside ...
The Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC), or simply Ontario Northland, is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario responsible for providing transportation services for passengers and goods in Northern Ontario. [2] It reports to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario through the Minister of Transportation.
Rail regulations in Canada are set by Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Agency. The 2007 " Railway Safety Act Review " [ 1 ] was commissioned by the Minister of Transport [ 2 ] and its report provides much-needed background to this article, especially section 4.3. [ 3 ]
For examples, North Central Texas Council of Governments uses the definition of the speeds over 150 mph (241 km/h), and Texas Department of Transportation and Oklahoma Department of Transportation use the speeds of 165 mph (266 km/h) or more to define high-speed rail. These agencies have a separate category for higher-speed rail which can be a ...
Comparative passenger capacity per hour of various modes of transport. The corridor capacity in the passenger transport field refers to the maximum number of people which can be safely and comfortably transported per unit of time over a certain way with a defined width. The corridor capacity does not measure the number of vehicles which can be ...
The Canada Transportation Act [4] is the Agency's enabling statute to implement the federal government's transportation policy. [7] The Agency also shares responsibility for administering other Acts and their related regulations, including: [7] Accessible Canada Act, 2019; Canada Marine Act; Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012
Transport Canada (French: Transports Canada) is the department within the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of road, rail, marine and air transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio. The current Minister of Transport is Anita Anand.
Transportation in North America is performed through a varied transportation system, whose quality ranges from being on par with a high-quality European motorway to an unpaved gravelled back road that can extend hundreds of miles. There is also an extensive transcontinental freight rail network, but passenger railway ridership is lower than in ...