EVALUATION OF ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT THE PEACE BRIDGE. FINAL REPORT

In 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) committed the United States, Canada and Mexico to facilitate movements of people and goods among the three member countries. Several projects, including the North American Trade Automation Prototype (NATAP) program, have focused on developing improved technology for sensing, inspection, and communication that could reduce delays to commercial traffic (trucks and trains) crossing the U.S.-Mexican and U.S.-Canadian borders. One of the NATAP pilot studies was conducted at the Peace Bridge, a major border crossing facility joining Buffalo, New York and Fort Erie, Ontario. The project is often referred to as the Intelligent Transportation Border Crossing System (ITBCS) project, and that nomenclature is used extensively in this report. The ITBCS technology is a transponder (tag) based system. The transponders identify load-driver-vehicle combinations moving across the bridge and are intended to help expedite both customs and immigration processing. This report present results derived from a study that focused heavily on simulation of operations at the Peace Bridge border crossing.

• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/16000/16700/16760/PB2000104742.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Cornell University

  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Ithaca, NY  United States  14853

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 110 Eighth Street
  Troy, NY  United States  12180

  Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority

  Ontario,   Canada 

  Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority

  Buffalo, MY  United States  14200
• Authors:
  • Nozick, L K
  • Turnquist, M A
  • Wayno, F J
  • Menyuk, B
  • List, G F
  • Wu, T L
• Publication Date: 1999-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 108 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Automatic vehicle identification; Border regions; Commercial vehicles; Information technology; Intelligent transportation systems; Technology assessment; Transponders
• Identifier Terms: North American Free Trade Agreement
• Geographic Terms: Canada; Mexico; United States
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00794302
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 14 2000 12:00AM