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Public Transit and Active Transportation

Program code
BYT01 (OICC)
Core responsibility
Public Transit, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Community Building
In Departmental Plans
2025-26 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Set policies, implement programs, and ensure funding stewardship to promote sustainable public transit and active transportation systems.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2025-26. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2025-262026-272027-282028-29Public Transit and Active Transportation 2025-26: $2.4BPublic Transit and Active Transportation 2026-27: $4.04BPublic Transit and Active Transportation 2027-28: $5.21BPublic Transit and Active Transportation 2028-29: $3.89BPublic Transit and Active Transportation
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Public Transit and Active TransportationThis program2025-26 – 2028-29—

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2026-27Planned spending $4.04B, against $2.4B in 2025-26 (+69%).Latest Departmental Plan
2027-28Planned spending $5.21B, against $4.04B in 2026-27 (+29%).Latest Departmental Plan
2028-29Planned spending $3.89B, against $5.21B in 2027-28 (−25%).Latest Departmental Plan

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with deployment of Zero Emissions Transit Buses
Expected result: Public transit systems and active transportation networks provide sustainable and reliable transportation options
762026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 762027—Planned
Remaining useful life of public transit assets
Expected result: Public transit systems and active transportation networks provide sustainable and reliable transportation options
50%2026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 50%2027—Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2025-26: $2.4B2025-262026-27: $4.04B2026-272027-28: $5.21B2027-282028-29: $3.89B2028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2025-26$2.4B—
2026-27$4.04B—
2027-28$5.21B*—
2028-29$3.89B*—

Employees (FTEs)

2025-26: 2582025-262026-27: 2072026-272027-28: 1942027-282028-29: 2052028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2025-26258—
2026-27207—
2027-28194*—
2028-29205*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2025-262026-272027-282028-29
2025-26 plan$2,395,887,490$4,422,908,081$6,000,088,619
2026-27 plan$4,041,808,966$5,214,409,146$3,885,230,766
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.