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It’s About Using Space Wisely: Cross-Border Trucks Face Different Challenges When It Comes to Parking

March 29, 2023

by Erik Vargas and Okan Gurbuz

In its 2020 Texas Statewide Truck Parking Study, the Texas Department of Transportation noted that trucks carrying 1.2 billion tons of freight worth $1.7 trillion each year in the Lone Star State. That means 140,000 trucks must park somewhere in the state every day for drivers to rest and sleep. Noted in the study, truck volume is expected to grow by some 80 percent by 2040, making today’s shortage of truck parking facilities a crisis down the road.
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Filed Under: Blog, Featured News, News Tagged With: artificial intelligence, border crossing, center, cross-border, cross-border trade, data-driven, daytrip, distribution, economy, freight, imagery, parking, prediction, reliability, satellite, semi-truck, traffic, traffic management, truck

New Brochure: Evaluating Crowdsourced Data Sources for Cross-Border Travel

November 21, 2022

This brochure is aimed at acquainting individuals and agencies with the efficacy of various crowdsourced data resources available to help them evaluate cross-border travel, as well as these sources’ potential and limitations.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: benefits, cross-border, crowdsourcing, data, INRIX, limitations, project, SafeGraph, study, travel

New Report: The Potential Role and Application of Emerging Data in a Border-Crossing Context

October 24, 2022

This study explored how crowdsourced data can be used to better understand cross-border trips and travel patterns. Transportation officials can use these results to develop robust, data-driven policies regarding cross-border trips that, in turn, should make for more efficient, safe, and secure travel.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: cross-border, crowdsourced data, data-driven, efficiency, interagency, management, pattern, policy, reliability, traffic, travel, travel time

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

New Report: Free and Secure Trade with Enhanced Reliability (FASTER)

January 5, 2021

Researcher identified traffic management strategies to improve crossing time reliability at commercial land ports of entry (LPOEs). They also successfully evaluated the strategies using two scenarios–an appointment scenario and a demand spreading scenario–using a microscopic traffic simulation model that the researchers developed for the Ysleta Zaragoza LPOE.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: cross-border, crossing time, evaluation, FASTER, land ports of entry, LPOE, Mexico, model, private sector, public sector, strategy, trade, United States, Ysleta-Zaragoza LPOE

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