Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Abstract

Wait time and delays at the United States-Canada border in recent years have been an impediment to free flow. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is working with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Transport Canada, and the Canada Border Services Agency on projects and activities using technology to measure border wait time. The working group has developed a border wait-time project designed to investigate, test, and deploy an automated, technology-based system for measuring wait times at two crossing locations on the land border. Another project took place in Minnesota to develop a bridge border crossing. FHWA provided information assistance to the Minnesota Department of Transportation in order to facilitate this project.