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Web Accessibility - A Resource Tool for Transportation-Related Websites
Introduction More and more travellers are using the websites of transportation service providers to arrange travel. If persons with disabilities are to have equal access to these websites, transportation service providers must ensure that their websites are accessible. This resource tool is...
Publication | 2016-07-08
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
Ministerial Inquiry into Allergies to Peanuts, Nuts and Sesame Seeds in Commercial Air Travel - Report of the Inquiry Officer
Executive summary Introduction and background The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) is an independent quasi-judicial tribunal of the Government of Canada. Part V of the Agency's enabling statute, the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10 (CTA), contains accessible transportation...
Publication | 2016-06-15
Compliance Report: Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Background The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) is responsible for ensuring that undue obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities are removed from air and federal rail, ferry and bus services and facilities. It seeks to remove these obstacles by: administering regulations and...
Publication | 2016-06-08
Railway Crossings of Other Railways: A Resource Tool
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
Removing Communication Barriers for Travellers with Disabilities: Code of Practice
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
Noise and Vibration from Idling Locomotives
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
Aircraft Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: Code of Practice for Fixed-Wing Aircraft with 30 or More Passenger Seats
Purpose of the Code of Practice This Code of Practice (Code) contains accessibility standards developed to enhance the level of accessibility for persons with disabilities when travelling by air, and sets out what the Canadian Transportation Agency expects of aircraft operators. In addition to...
Publication | 2016-03-17
Best Practices for Providing Assistance to Customers with Disabilities: A Resource Tool
Introduction Transportation service providers are required to assist their passengers with disabilities and are guided by the Canadian Transportation Agency's accessibility standards (including regulations and codes of practice), which help ensure that air and federal rail, ferry and bus services...
Publication | 2016-03-10
Passenger Rail Car Accessibility: Terms and Conditions
Purpose of this Code of Practice The purpose of this Code of Practice is to improve the accessibility of rail travel to persons with disabilities. In the 1995 TransAccess Information Base (Values in the TransAccess Information Base are age-adjusted projections of the figures for adults residing in...
Publication | 2016-01-21

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