Documenting and Determining Distributions, Trends, and Relations in Truck Times at International Border Crossing Facilities

Documenting the times trucks incur when crossing an international border facility is valuable both to the private freight industry and to gateway facility operators and planners. Members of the project team previously developed and implemented an approach to document truck activity times associated with crossing an international border by using technologies that are already in use by truck fleets. The approach relies on on-board global positioning system (GPS)-enabled data units, virtual perimeters called geofences that surround areas of interest, and a mechanism for data transmission. The project team has been teaming with a major freight hauler whose trucks regularly traverse two of the busiest North American freight border crossings – the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, and the publicly owned Blue Water Bridge, connecting Port Huron, MI, and Sarnia, ON– to determine times associated with the multiple activities associated with using the facilities at these border crossing sites. In the study reported here, additional geofence data were collected, new processing codes were written and implemented, new geofences were implemented to respond to changes in physical infrastructure at the border crossings, and data were processed into queuing and inspection times and summarized in tables and figures that would be useful for quarterly reports of important statistics.

• Record URL:
  http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nextrans/assets/pdfs/new/172OSU2.2%20Documenting%20and%20Determining%20Distributions,%20Trends,%20and%20Relations%20in%20Truck%20Times%20at%20International%20Border%20Crossing%20Facilities_Final%20Report.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32457
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Ohio State University, Columbus

  Columbus, OH  United States 

  Michigan Tech Research Institute

  Michigan Technological University, 3600 Green Court, Suite 100
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48105

  NEXTRANS

  Purdue University
  3000 Kent Avenue
  Lafayette, IN  United States  47906-1075

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • McCord, Mark R
  • Brooks, Colin N
  • Banach, David
  • Carr, Jake
• Publication Date: 2017-1-20

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 37p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Border crossings; Distributions (Statistics); Global Positioning System; Information processing; Inspection; International borders; Traffic queuing; Travel time; Trend (Statistics); Truck traffic
• Identifier Terms: Ambassador Bridge (Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario); Blue Water Bridge (Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario)
• Geographic Terms: United States-Canada Border
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01641062
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NEXTRANS Project No. 172OSU2.2
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-G-UTC05
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 17 2017 9:32AM