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Title:

Investigation of Commercial Vehicle Crossing Times at Pacific Highway Port-of-Entry

Accession Number:

01122065

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

At the Pacific Highway port-of-entry between the United States and Canada, typical delays are known to regional carriers and internalized into schedules. The largest 5% of crossing times are not internalized into schedules, and cause significant disruption to regional supply chains when they occur. In this paper, the authors describe the pattern of very long delays (defined as more than 2 hours or the largest 1% of crossing times), and explore whether the delays are caused by large demand for border crossings, a small supply of border crossing capacity, or some combination of these two effects. This understanding is necessary both to inform the discussion of border delay and to inform policy solutions. To do so the authors use commercial vehicle crossing time data obtained from a private fleet and commercial vehicle volume data from the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation. The authors analyze the patterns of delay and arrival on various temporal scales including monthly, seasonal, hourly, and day of the week. The authors discover a surprisingly weak correlation between border crossing time and arrival volume. The authors also discover a surprisingly high percentage can be attributed to sources other than primary booth delay, such as immigration, secondary screening, and a lack of preparation. This leads to the conclusion that solutions to border delay at Pacific Highway should not focus solely on increased primary inspection booths, but also on programs to increase border preparedness and trusted traveler programs.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-1647

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Goodchild, Anne V
Albrecht, Susan
Leung, Li

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Photos; References (11) ; Tables (2)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Border processing time; Crossing times

Geographic Terms:

United States-Canada Border

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-1647

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 5:54PM