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Ciudad Juarez

2018 Report: Estimating Economic Impact of Commercial Vehicle Border Delays in Real Time

December 3, 2021

A research team developed an implementation plan for a web-based economic impact estimation dashboard. The dashboard uses real-time data on economic costs of border delays in the El Paso–Ciudad Juárez region. This study updates work conducted in 2009 and 2010 on this topic.

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New Report: Exploration of Cross-Border Trip Characteristics Using Crowdsourced Data

November 4, 2021

This report explores cross-border trip characteristics using crowdsourced data, primarily focusing on INRIX data. The research team identified several cross-border travel patterns at El Paso–Ciudad Juárez land ports of entry and noted trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: border, border crossing, Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research, CIITR, Ciudad Juarez, COVID-19, cross-border, crowdsourced data, data, El Paso, land ports of entry, pattern, travel

Balancing COVID Concerns with Economic Need: Reduced Mobility, Vaccination Are Key to Halting the (or Any) Pandemic

August 11, 2021

by Okan Gurbuz

Restricting travel has proven vital to stemming the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially early on. Less human contact in tight spaces means less exposure to the virus—that’s a given. But reduced contact also means reduced commerce, at least for businesses depending on in-person customers.

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Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: border, Ciudad Juarez, COVID-19, El Paso, infection rate, intervention, Mexico, mobility, pandemic, U.S.-Mexico Border, United States, vaccination

Reducing the Domino Effect at LPOEs

July 7, 2014

by David Salgado Manzano

Travelers at the U.S.-Mexico border are experiencing longer and longer wait times. While NAFTA has proven economically advantageous for both countries—partly by encouraging tourism and trade in border towns—one negative consequence of increased economic activity has been longer lines at land ports of entry (LPOEs). The demand to cross from one country to the other usually exceeds a port’s capacity to efficiently process that traffic. This is particularly true in highly populated, bi-national regions such as El Paso-Ciudad Juarez. [Read more…] about Reducing the Domino Effect at LPOEs

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