Canadian Vehicle Survey

The survey measures the activity of all on-road vehicles registered in Canada with the exception of some vehicles such as motorcycles, construction equipment and road maintenance equipment.

Vehicles covered in the Canadian Vehicle Survey travelled an estimated 310.2 billion kilometres. Among them, vehicles weighing less than 4 500 kilograms (and not used as a bus) travelled 283.4 billion kilometres, or 91% of the total during the year.

Estimates of total vehicle-kilometres are available by province and territory. Estimates of passenger-kilometres are available by province only.

The 2001 issue of The Canadian Vehicle Survey (53-223-XIE, free) is now available on Statistics Canada's Web site (http://www.statcan.gc.ca). From the Our products and services page, choose Free publications, then Transport and warehousing.

To obtain data, contact Jean-Robert Larocque (613-951-2486; laroque@statcan.gc.ca). For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Wendy Christoff (613-951-2498; chriwen@statcan.gc.ca), Transportation Division.