Accessible Transportation Planning and Reporting Regulations: TRAN – February 27, 2024

Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities (TRAN) – February 27, 2024: Meeting Details

Summary of the Accessible Transportation Planning and Reporting Regulations

The Accessible Transportation Planning and Reporting Regulations (ATPRR) were created under the authority of the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) and were brought into force in December 2021.

The ACA sets out planning and reporting requirements to identify and remove barriers – and prevent new barriers – in priority areas such as communication, services and equipment.

The ACA sets out three planning and reporting requirements:

  1. Regulated entities must prepare and publish accessibility plans every three years, in consultation with persons with disabilities, that address their policies, programs, practices, and services in relation to the identification and removal of barriers – and the prevention of new barriers – in priority areas set out in the ACA.
  2. Regulated entities must establish feedback processes so that persons with disabilities can inform them of barriers.
  3. Regulated entities must prepare and publish progress reports that provide updates on the implementation of their accessibility plans and feedback they have received.

The ATPRR specify how these obligations apply to transportation service providers (TSPs).

The ATPRR apply to TSPs that operate in all modes of transportation that are captured by either the ATPDR, the ATR, or the PTR – air, interprovincial and international passenger rail, bus, and ferry – as well as the terminals that serve them, security screening, and border screening. This includes both foreign and domestic transportation service providers.

ATPRR updates

  • All guidance material related to the ATPRR has been posted on the CTA's website, including the plain language summaries of the guides and the corresponding ASL and LSQ interpretations.
  • The enforcement team have actively been promoting and verifying compliance with theATPRR.
  • To ensure a consistent government approach to compliance monitoring and enforcement of these new regulatory requirements, the Agency, participates on an interdepartmental Proactive Compliance Steering Committee with CHRC, CRTC and Employment and Social Development Canada.
  • To date the enforcement team have:
    • Reviewed and verified compliance of all accessibility plans and feedback processes for all regulated publicly owned TSPs and the vast majority of large private sector TSPs;
    • Received and are reviewing all Progress Reports for all publicly owned TSPs; and
    • Are developing guidance for the last group, regulated Small Private sector TSPs, which are required to publish their plans by June 2024.
    • 121 Cautionary Notices have been issued to 108 regulated entities between August 2023 and February 2024 related to our verification of accessibility plans and feedback processes.
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