Canada’s transportation network involves multiple modes including boats, trains, planes, and trucks. It handles billions of dollars in trade, millions of passengers, and vast amounts of goods, reflecting the critical role of transportation in the economy.
Catalogue number: 50-502-X
Issue number: 2018004
Description: Transportation network - Moving goods and people
By boat
- Over 550 port facilities
- 18 Canadian Port Authorities
- Handled international trade valued at $251 billion
- Total traffic for Canadian Port Authorities was 342 million tonnes
By train
- 26 federally regulated railways
- Three class 1 Railways
- 41,465 route kilometres of railway track
- Rail freight just over 331 million tonnes
By plane
- 26 national airports
- 285 certified land aerodromes
- 6.5 million aircraft movements
- Over 156 million air passengers per year
By truck
- Over 24 million road motor vehicles
- 1.13 million kilometres of two-lane roads or equivalent
- For-hire trucking traffic amounted to 295 billion tonne-kilometres
- Direct economic footprint of Canada's transportation sector was $88 billion in 2018, which translated to 920 thousand jobs
- Over $1.2 trillion of goods moved to and from international markets
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