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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

Applying AI, Drones and Satellites to Improve Border Transportation

March 14, 2022

by Alejandro Berlanga Alzaga and Valeria Martinez

When you think of drones, you may think of a package getting delivered to your doorstep. Many companies conduct flight missions of drones for delivering goods, but other applications for drones can benefit the public (and commercial vehicle drivers) in another way — travel across the border.

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Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: artificial intelligence, border, border crossing, border traffic, data, drones, economy, pattern, strategy, technology, travel, wait 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: Contact Tracing to Maintain Mobility at the Border during a Pandemic

September 20, 2021

TTI researchers evaluated contact-tracing apps, a commonly used practice to slow down the spread of COVID-19, with a focus on the El Paso-Juarez region. Taking advantage of mobile technology is expected to help in transitioning back to daily life while managing the risk of future outbreaks.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: border, Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research, CIITR, contact tracing, COVID-19, crossing, disease, health, infectious, mitigate, pandemic, spread, traffic, travel

Contact Tracing to Minimize Infection, Maximize Mobility at the U.S.-Mexico Border

July 30, 2021

by Okan Gurbuz

With the recent introduction of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, opening the world back up to regular commerce and human interaction has once again become problematic. Although global vaccine distribution continues at a healthy pace, how quickly mask mandates are lifted and businesses are open continue to be regulated at the local level in the United States. This lack of a central controlling authority — and the reliable regulation of interactions such direction would facilitate — further complicate getting the COVID-19 pandemic under control.

[Read more…] about Contact Tracing to Minimize Infection, Maximize Mobility at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: border, border crossing, city, community, contact tracing, COVID-19, international, outbreak, pandemic, strategies, technology, travel, virus

Understanding Transportation as a Disease Vector at the U.S.-Mexico Border

December 11, 2020

by Okan Gurbuz

In the past year, the world has undergone an immense transformation in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. Complete lockdowns and curfews have been enacted and then lifted to balance mitigating the spread of the disease with keeping economies working. Although a lot is still unknown about COVID-19, one thing is certain: transportation is one way the disease is spread from place to place.

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Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: border, community, COVID-19, international, outbreak, pandemic, strategies, technology, travel, virus

New Report: Cross-Border Transportation as a Disease Vector in COVID-19

November 23, 2020

Understanding the relationship between cross-border transportation and the spread of infectious diseases is vitally important to mitigating the spread of future waves of COVID-19 or other pandemics. This study clearly shows the significant effect border crossings have regarding the spread of infectious diseases in their surrounding communities.

Filed Under: Featured News, News Tagged With: border, Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research, CIITR, COVID-19, crossing, disease, health, infectious, international, mitigate, pandemic, spread, traffic, travel

CIITR Applies Technology to Help Sun Metro, Businesses Better Understand Customer Mobility

May 15, 2019

by David Galicia

For years, employees with El Paso’s transit system, Sun Metro, could only wonder how many of their riders use the Paso del Norte point of entry bridge connecting El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. Individuals are first admitted through the customs process, and then they walk the few blocks to Sun Metro’s main transit station (called the Downtown Transfer Center) and connect with a bus destined for another part of the city. Until now, Sun Metro could only guess how many of their riders came from Mexico.

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Filed Under: Blog, Featured News, News Tagged With: Bluetooth, bus, destination, El Paso, MAC, Media Access Control, O-D, operations, origin, pattern, Sun Metro, technology, travel, Wi-Fi

CIITR Team Leverages Technology to Improve Bus Service Operations

April 13, 2018

by David Galicia

Just about everyone these days is connected to the world at large—thanks to technology. It’s because of that technology that our smartphones have the ability to help El Paso’s Sun Metro (the city’s public transportation service) and city planners make the best choices about new routes, additional stops, and other transit decisions that could improve system efficiency in the most cost-effective way possible. That helps cities like El Paso stretch finite resources and public tax dollars to achieve the greatest return on investment for their constituents. [Read more…] about CIITR Team Leverages Technology to Improve Bus Service Operations

Filed Under: Blog, Featured News Tagged With: Bluetooth, bus, El Paso, MAC, Media Access Control, OD, operations, origin-destination, pattern, Sun Metro, technology, travel, Wi-Fi

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