{"id":38203,"date":"2014-05-23T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=38203"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:37:26","slug":"canadian-vehicle-specifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news-and-resources\/safety-sources\/canadian-vehicle-specifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Vehicle Specifications"},"content":{"rendered":"The Canadian Vehicle Specifications (CVS) consists of a database of original vehicle dimensions, used primarily in collision investigation and reconstruction, combined with a search engine. The database is compiled annually by the Collision Investigation and Research Division of Transport Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The current release of the software is Version 2026.1, and is available for downloading as the archive file: <a  data-e-Disable-Page-Transition=\"true\" class=\"download-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/download\/40784\/?tmstv=1780984640\" rel=\"nofollow\" id=\"download-link-40784\" data-redirect=\"false\" >\n\tCVS20261.zip<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>To install the program, unzip the files contained in the archive cvs20261.zip to any folder, then run the program winspecs.exe.<\/p>\n<p><em>A <\/em><strong><em>Help Button<\/em><\/strong> has been added at the top right display screen to access the CVS User Guide.<\/p>\n<p>A help file, providing information on program installation and use, plus contact information for reporting bugs and obtaining technical support, is included in the distribution. The installed package includes a Microsoft operating system file msvbvm50.dll, which is required when running Vista or later software.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note to consultants:<\/strong> <\/em>The Canadian Vehicle Specifications (CVS) database is compiled annually by Transport Canada.\u00a0 Transport Canada no longer converts *.csv files to the dBase format *.dbf.\u00a0 Starting in 2018, all future versions of the CVS database will contain only *.csv files.\u00a0 Therefore, if required, the end user will need to convert the *.csv files to *.dbf files.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Vehicle Specifications (CVS) consists of a database of original vehicle dimensions, used primarily in collision investigation and reconstruction, combined with a search engine. The database is compiled annually by the Collision Investigation and Research Division of Transport Canada&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety-sources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40787,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38203\/revisions\/40787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}