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Standards for accessible transportation
How the Agency makes transportation accessible It's the Agency's responsibility to ensure that everyone enjoys the same access to travel.  The Agency ensures that any undue obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities are removed from transportation services and facilities under its...
Web page | 2015-10-23
Compliance Report: Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier 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 | 2015-12-11
Consultation on the requirement to hold a licence
The Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) is requesting comments from the aviation industry and other interested stakeholders on whether persons who have commercial control over an air service, but do not operate aircraft (Indirect Air Service Providers), should be required to hold a licence....
Consultation | 2015-12-21
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
Passenger Terminal Accessibility
Purpose of this Code of Practice The purpose of this Code is to provide a minimum level of accessibility for passenger terminals across Canada and to further improve the accessibility of terminals for persons with disabilities on a systemic basis as they use the federal transportation system. The...
Publication | 2007-01-02
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
Accessibility Guidelines for Small Aircraft - Services for persons with disabilities on aircraft with 29 and fewer passenger seats
1. Purpose of these Guidelines These Guidelines, developed in cooperation with representatives of the industry, consumers and other government departments, are meant to assist carriers to better serve the needs of persons with disabilities travelling on aircraft with 29 and fewer passenger seats (...
Publication | 2005-01-03
Notice of Oral Hearing
 Notice of Adjournment of Hearing IN THE MATTER OF an application by the City of Vancouver for an order requiring the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) to make an offer to governments to transfer the Arbutus Corridor portion of the Marpole Spur, for no more than the net salvage...
Web page | 2016-03-17
Backgrounder - Transfer and Discontinuance of Railway Lines
Canada Transportation Act Part III, Division V The Canada Transportation Act (Act) provides a framework for railway companies under federal jurisdiction to transfer or discontinue railway lines provided certain procedures are followed. The Act also sets out a process that must be followed by...
Web page | 2016-01-07
Procedures and Principles With Respect to Oral Hearings
Part 1: Background and Purpose Background Most dispute adjudication cases before the Agency will proceed by way of written pleadings. Where this is the case, parties do not appear in person before the Agency, but instead submit their evidence and arguments in writing. In some cases, however, the...
Web page | 2016-01-06

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