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Insurance Requirements for Federally Regulated Freight Railway Companies - Implementation guide
Part 1 - Insurance Requirements - Background and Features 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this guide is to assist stakeholders to understand and comply with the new insurance requirements under the Safe and Accountable Rail Act (SARA) and to inform them about the process that the Canadian...
Publication | 2016-06-15
Consultation on the Agency's Regulatory Costing Model (ARCM)
The consultation is closed This consultation took place between January 9 and February 28, 2017. We are analyzing the input. Agency staff is seeking interested parties' views on three underlying issues at the core of the Agency's regulatory costing model (ARCM), which is the broad set of...
Consultation | 2017-01-09
Complaints about rail noise and vibration
What types of rail noise and vibration complaints can the Agency help with? The Canada Transportation Act authorizes the Agency to resolve complaints about noise and vibration related to construction or operations by: federal freight railways or public passenger service providers (including ...
Web page | 2021-02-08
Disputes about public passenger service providers’ use of railway lines and other assets
Types of disputes we can help with Whenever a public passenger serv­ice provider and a railway company are unable to agree in respect of any matter raised in the context of the negotiation of any agreement concerning the use of the railway company’s railway, land, equipment, facilities or services...
Web page | 2016-08-26
Disputes about level of service (rail)
The Agency can help to resolve rail service disputes between a shipper and a railway company. A railway company has service obligations for carrying traffic for shippers, which includes furnishing adequate and suitable accommodation for loading, receiving, carrying, delivering, and unloading...
Web page | 2016-08-26
Complaints and disputes about rail transportation
Types of dispute resolution services The CTA can resolve disputes that arise between federal railway companies and their clients and neighbours. Facilitation An Agency officer assesses the issue and leads an informal exchange between the parties, usually by...
Web page | 2023-09-30
Disputes about the transfer and discontinuance of railway lines
Under Part III, Division V of the Canada Transportation Act, a federal railway company must take these steps before transferring or discontinuing operations: provide notice in the company’s three-year plan for at least 12 months of its intention to discontinue operating the line; publicly...
Web page | 2016-06-21
Arbitration to establish a level of service agreement (rail)
The Canada Transportation Act provides a right to shippers to establish rail service agreements with railway companies by way of arbitration where the agreements cannot be negotiated commercially.  The arbitrator will be appointed by the Agency on receipt of proposals for arbitration and shall be...
Web page | 2015-10-22
Consultation on the Guide on Applying for Approval to Construct a Railway Line and Indigenous Engagement Framework for Railway Line Construction
The consultation is closed This consultation took place between March 7 and May 31, 2017. The Agency published a Guide on Applying for Approval to Construct a Railway Line on October 4, 2019. The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) is requesting comments from the railway industry and...
Consultation | 2017-03-07
Proposed Guide on Applying for Approval to Construct a Railway Line for Federally-Regulated Railway Companies
1. Overview The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) has the authority to approve the construction of federally-regulated railway lines under section 98 of the Canada Transportation Act (Act). The Agency may approve an application to construct a railway line if it determines that the location...
Web page | 2017-03-07

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