Canada’s Green Transport Cities - Methodology and sources

Methodology

In order to determine which Canadian cities had the Greenest Transportation, we looked at a variety of metrics to create a ranking. Taking the 10 highest populated cities, we found data points associated with sustainability and travel to rank each city against one another. 

When creating a ranking system, we used a formula which scores each metric. The formula gives metrics a score between 1 and 10. For some data points, i.e. the higher the number of electric charging points, the higher the score.

For some data points, such as the price of a bus ticket, the higher the bus fare the lower the score. This formula is carried out across all data columns. In some cases where a numerical figure was not possible i.e if the city has an electric bike share program, yes = 1 and 0 = No. To produce the final rankings, an average score is calculated across the data columns per location. 

Sources

Data collected 20-23/09/2021

Source:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cities/canada

Notes:

Population, only cities have been used, not provinces or districts

No. of electric cars on the road

Source:

• Calgary
• Hamilton
• Surrey
• Halifax
• Edmonton
• Windsor
• Toronto
• Mississauga
• Vancouver
• Brampton
• Oshawa, Montreal, Gatineau, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Victoria
• London
• Kelowna

Notes:

• Mississauga electric vehicles: data from Toronto, its nearest city, has been used.
• Vancouver electric vehicles: number of vehicle insurance policies by electric models used for 2020.
• Brampton electric vehicles: data from Toronto, it's nearest city, has been used.
• For these cities; Oshawa, Montreal, Gatineau, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Victoria, data has been taken from Q1 of 2021 for newly registered electric cars.
• Laval electric vehicles: data taken from Montreal, it's nearest city.
• Kelowna electric vehicles: data taken from the number of consumers who have opted-in to the high-occupancy vehicle lanes which are available to those who drive electric vehicles.
• Markham electric vehicles: data from Toronto, it's nearest city, has been used.

No. of cycle routes

Source:

https://www.bikemap.net/en/l/6251999/

Bike rental programs

Source:

• Toronto
• Montreal
• Vancouver
• Hamilton
• Ottawa
• Gatineau
• Laval
• Calgary (li.me - has been discontinued in this location)
• Windsor
• Edmonton
• Mississauga
• Brampton
• Markham
• Oshawa
• Kelowna
• Winnipeg

Notes:

• Markham bike rental program: information from Toronto, it's nearest city, has been used.
• Oshawa bike rental program: information from Toronto, it’s nearest city has been used.

Number of electrical charging points

Source:

ChargeHub

Public transport methods

Source:

• Ottawa
• Mississauga
• Winnipeg
• Vancouver
• Hamilton
• Brampton
• Surrey
• Laval
• Halifax
• London
• Kelowna
• Victoria
• Windsor
• Markham
• Montreal
• Toronto
• Calgary
• Gatineau
• Oshawa

Notes:

Gatineau price fares: uses its nearest city Ottawa data.

Bus ticket costs

Source:

• London
• Winnipeg
• Hamilton
• Brampton
• Halifax
• Kelowna
• Victoria
• Vancouver
• Montreal
• Laval
• Toronto
• Mississauga
• Ottawa
• Calgary
• Gatineau
• Oshawa
• Hamilton
• Surrey
• Edmonton
• Windsor
• Markham

E-scooter programs

Source:

• Vancouver
• Montreal
• Victoria
• Laval
• Toronto
• Mississauga
• Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Windsor
• Gatineau
• Hamilton
• Surrey
• Markham
• Brampton
• Halifax
• Winnipeg
• London
• Kelowna

Congestion levels

Source:

https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/

Notes:

• Mississauga, Brampton, Surrey, Laval, Victoria, Markham, Oshawa, Gatineau and Kelowna: the closest city with available data was used.
• For Windsor, Detroit has been used as the closest city.

Air pollution levels

Source:

https://aqicn.org/

Notes:

• Each city was searched for to produce its own pollution data.
• Pollution: Markham data represented by Toronto due to lack of source.

Airports

Source:

https://canadasairports.ca/

Note:

Each city was Googled to find the nearest airport.