Preface

Battelle is performing an ITS Program Assessment Support (IPAS) contract for the Federal Highway Administration Office of Freight Management and Operations, under the task "Expansion of Initial Border Measurement Activity – Analysis and Expansion of Sites in 2001." Specifically, Battelle's task under this contract is "Evaluation of Travel Time Methods to Support Mobility Performance Monitoring," contract DTFH61-96-C-00077. Broadly, the task is to collect and compile data on travel time delays experienced by CMVs (commercial motor vehicles, i.e., trucks) crossing the U.S. border to, and from, Canada and Mexico.

Battelle's contract involves technical support for:

1. conducting second on-site visits to several international border crossing sites observed in an FY 2000 review of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) travel time, for the purpose of additional collection and analysis of CMV travel data;
2. nomination of 3 additional crossing sites at Canadian and Mexican borders for evaluation of their CMV travel times;
3. collection and analysis of FY 2001 CMV travel time data at all 7 crossings; and
4. incorporation into final analysis of separately collected data at 2 additional international sites that, in 2001, will be concurrently assessing the application of automated border collection and analysis software.

As part of item (4) above, this report evaluates the potential for application of automated monitoring technologies at the sites reviewed in FY 2001 and early FY 2002. These are specific technologies that have promise for automating the collection and determination of CMV (truck) travel times across the U.S. border with Canada and Mexico.

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