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Smart Commute Statistics
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65% of people who ride to work are male, and 35% are female in Toronto. 58% of
people who ride a bicycle to work are between the ages of 25 to 44 1
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Cycling
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Cycling is also more common among people who live closer to downtown2
Toronto has the highest bicycle mode share (1.7%) The average bicycle mode
share across Canada is 1.3%3
Three hours of cycling may reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke by 50.
Annual cost of operating a bike is 2.5% that of a car %4
On a bicycle you can travel up to 1,037 km on energy equivalent to a litre of gas5
20 bicycles parked up at one spot takes up the same amount of space as one car6
19% of cyclist that said their commute to work was their most pleasant activity of
their day compared to only 2% of drivers felt the same7
The overall bike share of work trips is currently three times higher in Canada than
in USA (1.2 vs. 0.4% from 1990-2000) 8
Women who bike more then 30 minutes a day have a lower risk of getting breast
cancer9
On a round trip commute to work of 10 miles a cyclist saves approx. $10/day 10
For every I mile being pedaled instead of driven, around 1 pound of CO is being
saved. 11
The average cyclist has only 1 accident every 8.7 years12
Adolescents who bicycle are 48% less likely to be
overweight as adults.
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The average household spends $7,179 per year on
owning and driving their cars.14
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Studies find correlation between the length of one's commute and how stressful
their day is
GTA traffic congestion costs the local economy approximately $6 billion a year
Average GTA round-trip commute is longer than anywhere else in North
American at 80 minutes
One public transit bus can take 40 cars off the road and remove 168 tonnes of
pollutants from the air each year
53% of Canadian workers want a work-from-home option to avoid long
commutes and increase productivity, according to a recent Workopolis survey
About 1.5 million Canadians work from home, at least occasionally (CanadianTelework Association and InnoVisions Canada)
If 1 million teleworkers were to work at home just 1 day each week, in a year,Canada would save 250 million kg of CO2 emissions; 100 million litres of fuel;and 800 million fewer kilometres of mileage on our highways and streets. Wewould save $40 million in fuel costs, and 50 million hours of time, to spend withour families, or on our non-work lives. (http://www.ivc.ca/cleanair/index.htm)
Ability to balance work and personal life is the most critical factor in employeedecisions to stay with their jobs15
Can have a saving of over $35 millionon office space16
Telecommuting by the numbers
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1.4 million: Number of employees who worked at home in 2000
1.8 million: Number of employees who worked at home in 2008
11.2 per cent: Percentage of the Canadian work force who worked at home in
2008
Source: Statistics Canada
The average vehicle owner spends between $8,500 and $11,000 annually on
ownership and operating costs, carpooling splits those costs among drivers17
Carpooling can promote a feeling of community by having companions in the
car.18
143 carpools that were formed reduced annual GHG emissions by 854 tonnes. 19
Constructing one parking space can cost between $1,500 and $22,000, depending
on the type of parking facility. Average annual operating costs can run from $500 to
$800 per space.
Overall transportation represents the largest single source of Canadas greenhouse
gas emissions, accounting for 27% of the total.20
51% of people who carpool with a family member21
$1.1 billion saved by carpooling every year22
56,000 miles avoided traffic every year by carpooling23
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Carpoolin
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20% of traffic that would die down if everyone carpooled once a week of traffic
that would die down if everyone carpooled once a week 24
HOV lane users save about one minute per
mile during peak rush-hour time periods.25
The typical one-way commute from home towork increased from 7.0 km to 7.6km.26
The automobile dominates Canadian
commuting (72.3% of work trips)27
The cost of congestion in urban areas ranges
from $2.3 billion to $3.7 billion per year.28
Every single day, 70 million tons of carbon dioxide is released into our world's
atmosphere.29
Population
Markham is the 16th largest municipality with 301, 709, increase more then 15 percent in thelast 5 years.
Canadas current population increased rose 5.9 percent to 33, 476, 688 and Ontario is at 12,851,821
York Region has increased by 16 percent to 1, 032,524 from 892,712.
Population ofVaughn is at 288,301 growing at 20.7 per cent.
Richmond Hill is the 26th largest municipality at 185,541 which rose 14 per cent. Whitchurch-Stouffville is 3rd fastest growing municipality in Canada. Grew 54.3 per cent to
37, 628 since 2006
Road Tolls
Polls by the Toronto Board of Trade have shown more then 60 per cent
of the respondents are prepared pay to use the roads. TBOT has also
agreed that the GTA roads have taken a crisis point.
Another poll by Angus Reid said 34% of Torontonians moderately
support while 18% strongly support the idea.
Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance estimates in the next 20 years
around 2 million people and 1 million cars will move into the Golden
Horseshoe area.
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If nothing is done in next 35 years the costs of congestion will grow
from $6 billion to $15 billion.
Metrolinx estimates it will need $50 billion in the next 25 years for
transportation improvements.
Planning to use York Region to test the effectiveness of the tolls,
representatives were open to the idea but hesitant to accept too much
change.
Highway 401 is the 3rd busiest highway in North America.
Proposal will free up millions of dollars for transit and road repairs and
lower police, judicial and health costs due to a decrease of car accidents
which annually cost $17 billion.
Roughly 82% of commuters traveled to work by car, while 12% took
public transit and 6% walked or bicycled.30
68% of Canadian households have access to public transit within five
minutes of their home, 41% used it regularly.
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1 City of Toronto: Cycling in Toronto. 2 Apr. 2008.
2 Ibid
3 Ibid
4 Bikes Belong, 2008
5 University of Aberdeen, Facts on Cycling, 2007
6 Ibid
7 Making the Case for Active Transportation. Health Benefits
8Pucher and Renne, 2004. & Statistics Canada, 2003
9 (Luoto, R., et al., 2000)
10 Commute Solutions, 2011
11 Environmental Protection Agency, 2009
12 Bikes Belong, 2012
13 Menschik, D, et al., 2008
14 Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2010
15 Towers Perrin, Feb 2008
16 IBM Canada, early 90S
17 The Canadian Automobile Association, 2007
18 Anecdotal evidence
19 Calgary's carpooling initiative, 2003
20 Environment Canada
21 Commuter Solutions, Green Living, 2012
22 Ibid
23 Ibid
24 ibid
25 CalTrans, 2007
26 Statistics Canada. 2001
27 Transport Canada.2006
28 Ibid
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29 InstantCarpool.2012
30 Canadian Social Trends. 2010