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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
Introduction
This resource tool is designed to help parties who wish to construct a railway line across another railway line.
Agreements
The parties involved in constructing a railway line across another railway line may negotiate any aspect of a crossing. Under section 99 (Part III) of the...
Publication | 2016-04-22
Purpose of this Code
This Code contains accessibility standards developed to improve the communication of transportation-related information for persons with disabilities on a systemic basis as they use the federal transportation network.
While this Code focuses on the information needs of...
Publication | 2016-03-31
How to create an agreement
The parties involved in constructing a railway line across another railway line may negotiate any aspect of a crossing.
When negotiating an agreement the parties may want to consider the following items:
location of the crossing;
a description of the project;
the...
Web page | 2016-03-30
Purpose
This document explains noise and vibration from idling locomotives, including:
reasons why locomotives idle
characteristics of noise and vibration from idling locomotives
potential ways of managing noise and vibration impacts
It was developed by the Canadian Transportation Agency's...
Publication | 2016-03-30
Interswitching is an operation performed by railway companies (carriers) where one carrier performs the pickup of cars from a customer (shipper) and hands off these cars to another carrier that performs the “line haul” (the majority of the linear distance of the overall railway movement). The...
Web page | 2016-03-11
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Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton Transit System
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Web page | 2016-03-11
[1] This Appendix describes in detail the methodology and the data sources the Agency will use for making cost of capital determinations for federally-regulated railway companies. Cost of capital determinations are made annually for CN and CP, and as required for other railway companies in...
Web page | 2016-03-11
Over the past year, the Agency has received numerous inquiries from individuals and organizations interested in learning how the list of Grain Dependent Branch Lines (GDBLs) set out in Schedule I of the Canada Transportation Act had been developed. The following description of the process used in...
Web page | 2016-03-11
How to transfer or discontinue a railway line
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...
Web page | 2016-03-07