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Title:

Toward Understanding the Cross-Border Pedestrian Travel: A Resource Paper with a Focus on the Paso Del Norte Bridge in El Paso

Accession Number:

01520098

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The Paso del Norte (PDN) Bridge is without doubt one of the busiest cross-border footpaths along the United States-Mexico border and is expected to continue dominating total pedestrian cross-border crossings in El Paso over the next decades. The bridge connects the United States and Mexico in a location conveniently central to both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and supports the economic development of both communities. On the other hand, long queues and protracted wait times have become a substantial issue for cross-border travelers. Though it is likely that a primary cause for this might be the inordinate amount of time waiting to cross the border, the causes may also include many other factors, such as security issues, Mexican peso devaluations, and migration in response to violence. This paper serves as a resource document, and contributes toward understanding cross-border travel behavior decisions, with a focus on pedestrians crossing the PDN bridge. The paper examines the factors influencing their travel as well as the issues they have been facing, and then provides a conceptual framework to create a data inventory needed for a focused quantitative analysis. The improved understanding yielded from this research has potential application well beyond the geographic limits of this study: this research will be directly applicable to other cross-border bridges with pedestrian traffic along the United States-Mexico border and may be applicable indirectly to other borders, as well.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADA30 Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities. Alternate title: Toward Understanding Cross-Border Pedestrian Travel: Resource Paper with a Focus on Paso Del Norte Bridge in El Paso, Texas

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-3485

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Sener, Ipek N
Lorenzini, Karen Marie
Galicia, Luis David
Aldrete, Rafael Manuel

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Bridges and other structures; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-3485

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:12PM