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Canadian transportation economic account, 2013

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Released: 2018-03-27

Own-account transportation represents about one-third of transportation services

Output for total transportation activity, as defined by the Canadian Transportation Economic Account (CTEA), is estimated to have been $127.6 billion in 2013. This represented 3.8% of the total Canadian output.

Own-account transportation activity in air, rail, water and trucking collectively contributed $41.4 billion to this estimate and constituted 32% of the overall transportation activity in the four modes of transportation. Trucking had the largest output of own-account transportation at $39.2 billion (45% of the mode's total transportation activity). In terms of value added, the shares were similar, with own-account transportation contributing over $19.3 billion for the four modes.

The CTEA provides a comprehensive measure of transportation services produced in the Canadian economy. In addition to for-hire transportation services, it provides a new explicit measure of own-account or in-house transportation services produced by non-transportation industries in the process of conducting their core business activities. Each own-account transportation mode (air, rail, water, and trucking) is presented as a separate industry and product in the account. The CTEA is fully integrated with Canada's macroeconomic accounts.

Fuel composition is different between for-hire and own-account transportation

The CTEA shows the differences in fuel usage between for-hire and own-account transportation activities.

For example, it shows that the proportion of jet fuel used in the for-hire air transport industry was 25% of output, compared with 40% of output in the own-account transport industry. It also showed that the share of gasoline use in the for-hire trucking industry was 0.4%, compared with 4.9% in the own-account trucking industry.

The differences in fuel usage between own-account and for-hire transportation are likely due to the different kinds of transportation equipment used in each sector. For example, own-account trucking includes a higher proportion of smaller trucks that use gasoline than does the for-hire industry. Meanwhile, own-account water transport fleets include a higher proportion of smaller vessels that use less heavy fuel oils than the vessels of the for-hire water transport industry.

Wholesale, manufacturing and retail are the largest users of own-account transportation

The industries with the highest levels of own-account transportation activity across all modes are wholesale trade, manufacturing, retail trade, mining and construction. Together, these industries constitute about 65% of the total own-account transportation activity.

Share of own-account transportation activity is largest in trucking

At an aggregate level, Canadian industries used own-account transportation activities for 54% of their transportation needs.

Overall, own-account trucking (66%) formed a larger share of the intermediate use of trucking services by non-transportation industries, compared with 33% of for-hire use. All final use comes from the for-hire industries.

For water transport, own-account activity constituted 39% of the total intermediate use of water transport services in non-transportation industries. The industry with the highest use of own-account water transport was agriculture and forestry (which includes fishing, hunting, logging and crop production), making up 69% of total own-account activity in water transport.

Own-account transportation in air constituted 7% of the total intermediate use of air transportation services by non-transportation industries. About 94% of the own-account transportation activity in air occurred in mining and in federal government.

Own-account activity in rail occurs mainly in two industry groups: manufacturing and mining. This activity captures rail transportation services produced by firms using their own railway lines and locomotives. Own-account transportation in rail constituted 11% of the total intermediate use of rail transportation services.







  Note to readers

The Canadian Transportation Economic Account (CTEA) estimates are presented at basic prices. As a supplement to the Canadian Supply and Use Tables (SUTs), they provide a comprehensive measure of both own-account and for-hire transportation services.

The CTEA presents own-account transportation by each mode as a separate industry. Therefore, in addition to the 13 existing for-hire transportation industries (air transportation, rail transportation, water transportation, truck transportation, transit ground passenger and scenic, urban transit system, taxi and limousine services, other transit and scenic, pipeline transportation of gas, crude oil and other transportation, support activates for transportation, postal services couriers and messengers, and warehousing and storage), four new own-account transportation industries are introduced in the CTEA, one for each of the four primary modes of transportation (air, rail, water and truck). Each own-account industry produces one output, its corresponding own account transportation product.

The CTEA consists of four tables:

Supply: The supply table is a product by industry matrix that shows how much of each product is produced by each industry, as well as imported from outside Canada.

Use: The use table is a product by industry matrix that shows how much of each product is used by each industry as an intermediate input. It also shows use by final demand categories (such as personal expenditure, investment and government consumption), inventories and exports.

Direct requirements: The direct requirements table is a product by industry matrix that shows the cost of each product used by an industry per dollar of industry output, including the costs of for-hire and in-house transportation.

Total requirements: The total requirements table is an industry by product matrix that shows the sum of direct and indirect industry output required to produce a product for use by final demand (household consumption, government consumption, capital formation, and international exports).

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Additional information can be found in the document "Transportation Economic Account: Sources and Methods."

Contact information

For more information, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; STATCAN.infostats-infostats.STATCAN@canada.ca).

To request the Canadian Transportation Economic Accounts, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Andreas Trau (613-951-3466; andreas.trau@canada.ca), Industry Accounts Division.

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