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  1. The Canadian passenger bus and urban transit industries continued their strong year-over-year financial growth in 2009 with total revenue rising 12.3% from 2008 to $13.6 billion.
  2. The growth in revenue was driven primarily by the urban transit industry, which saw its revenue rise to $10.5 billion, up 17.1% from 2008. Key to this growth was the sharp rise in both its capital and operating subsidies, which increased 35.5% and 14.9%, respectively.
  3. Total expenses for the industries rose as well in 2009, rising 6.3% to $9.8 billion.
  4. As a result of the strong growth in revenues over total expenses, net income climbed 31.5% to $3.8 billion.
  5. Human resource expenses continued to be the main expense incurred by the bus industries, representing 61.1% of total operating expenses in 2009.
  6. The industries spent a combined $2.5 billion on capital related expenditures in 2009, a 14.1% decrease from 2008. Purchases of buses and other rolling stock amounted to $1.2 billion, a drop of 16.7%, while other capital expenditures were $1.3 billion, down 11.4%.
  7. Employment and compensation for the bus industries both advanced in 2009. The number of full-time equivalent employees increased 5.3% from 2008 to 103,825, while total compensation rose 7.0% to $5.8 billion. As a result of these gains, the average expenditure per employee rose 1.7% from the previous year to $55,440 in 2009.
  8. The bus industries expanded their fleet in 2009 with additions in all vehicle types. For the year, overall fleet rose 9.2% from 2008 to 69,507.
  9. Urban transit operators in the country's largest provinces, Ontario and Quebec, continued to see their combined total operating revenue rise, climbing 5.9% and 8.9% from 2008 to $2.9 billion and $1.6 billion, respectively.

How the information is presented

Statistics Canada uses the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) to classify all companies operating in Canada. For passenger bus and urban transit, there are five industries as follows:

485110
Urban transit systems
485210
Interurban and rural bus transportation (major activity is scheduled intercity services)
485410
School and employee transportation
485510
Charter bus industry
485990
Other transit and ground passenger transportation (i.e. companies whose major business activity is the provision of shuttle services)

There are some urban transit, school bus and passenger bus operations that generate economic activity but are not included in one of the five NAICS categories. To provide data users with a more complete picture of passenger bus and urban transit activities, each table presents information that includes the five NAICS industries as well as other activity that has been identified and for which data could be collected for operations that are outside of the five NAICS industries.

There is no duplication of activity across groups (e.g. urban transit operations in the "Other" category are not duplicated in the urban transit NAICS).

The Canadian passenger bus and urban transit industries can be looked at either by "sector" (i.e., by main company activity as classified under NAICS), or by "activity" (or service lines) performed.

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