1. Michele Mueller Senior Project Manager Applying Intelligent Transportation Systems to Cross Border Issues TC / FHWA Regional Roundtable Mike Barnet Senior Project Engineer

2. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 2 Outline  Background  Goals for an Intelligent Border Crossing  Work Underway in Port Huron / Sarnia for a Border Advisory System  Plans for Alternate Crossings  Related Work

3. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 3 Ontario  Population >13 million  Ontario’s international trade is greater than $436 billion 49% of Canada’s overall international trade  Motor vehicle parts represent the largest commodity group 27% of Ontario’s total merchandise trade  Ontario’s US trade represents 65% of our international trade Destination for 78% of Ontario exports Source of 56% of Ontario imports  Ontario’s top US export destinations: Michigan ($38.9 billion) California ($15.1 billion) New York ($13.1 billion) Ohio ($7.5 billion) Texas ($6.9 billion)

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5. 5 Michigan  4 International Crossings  Increased Demand at Crossings Passenger and Freight  Trade Statistics: Month Snapshot – Total US/Canada trade; $57.37 billion (up 8% compared to Sept 13) – Michigan largest state trading with Canada Sept 2014 ; $6.6 billion Year to Date (As of Sept 2014) – US/Canada Trade through Michigan - $169.65 billion (up 8.14% from last year) o Michigan's border crossings handled 34.2% of all US/Canada trade in September – Michigan/Canada trade through Michigan border crossings - $48.4 billion (up 9.9% from last year)

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7. 7 Intelligent Border Crossing GOALS  Reduce travel delay by taking action to maximize the efficiency of the transportation network  Enhance safety by taking action to provide timely, useful information regarding roadway conditions well in advance of necessary action  Reduce the costs associated with cross-border travel by taking action to reduce systemic inefficiencies in the transportation system, and to promote inter-agency information-sharing and coordination  Reduce the negative impacts on border communities by taking action to reduce idling and congestion  Provide support to other government agencies by facilitating the exchange of information regarding cross-border transport

8. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 8 Project Planning / Design  Concept of Operations Automatically measure Border Wait Time on a real-time basis Provide border wait-time information to motorists en route via: – Roadside signs – Traveler Information Website  Coordination with FHWA Multi state systems  Coordination amongst all stakeholders Partnership, MOU Infrastructure  Stakeholder Involvement  Technology Investigation  Software

9. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 9 Hybrid Approach (Bluetooth and Vehicle Detectors)  Use of Bluetooth Readers & Vehicle Detectors  Vehicle Detectors Service flow rate Volume of cars in the queue  Bluetooth Detector Historical travel time information Vehicle detectors installed at border crossing in BC, Canada Bluetooth reader installed off highway shoulder, Ontario

10. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 10 Hybrid Approach Primary Inspection Lanes Closed System (NOTE: Could be a tunnel or bridge approach) Bluetooth Reader ‘B’ Direction of Travel Cars EnteringCars Exiting Vehicle Detectors ‘A’Vehicle Detectors ‘B’ Bluetooth and Vehicle Detectors co-located (in principle) Vehicle Detectors A gives real-time service flow rate Vehicle Detectors B gives number of cars in the queue Bluetooth reader provides historical travel times

11. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 11 Blue Water Bridge Crossing

12. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 12 Data Review

13. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 13 Data Analysis

14. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 14 Current Status  With much calibration effort and support from our project partners including Parsons, the Bluetooth vendor (TPA-NA) and MDOT, we have achieved very accurate border wait time measurements using the travel time method alone  Waiting to confirm with instances where wait time exceeds 1 hr.  After similar calibration effort and support from MDOT, we are not able to achieve a comparable level of accuracy with the closed system method as we were with the travel time method. This is due to a typical daily error of about 3% between measured arrivals and measured departures; and occasional lost volumes due to wireless transmission  Still have an issue with 1 Bluetooth modem that is intermittently dropping connectivity

15. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 15 Information Dissemination  Michigan: Will be posting information on Dynamic Message Signs, MiDrive, and a phone application  Ontario: Plan is to provide information through Web, Road Side Signs, and potentially 511.  We also plan to make the information available to those who can use and distribute including CBSA and CBP

16. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 16 Lessons Learned  Large, multi-jurisdictional team MTO, MDOT Blue Water Bridge CAN / USA City of Windsor 2 Consulting teams  Design of Hybrid Approach requires equipment on both sides of crossing – both loops and bluetooth  Development of signing / messaging strategy Size of sign Roadside Vs. Overhead Bilingual Requirements  Privacy Concerns raised by media  Uncertainty related to construction of DRIC

17. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 17 Other Related Work  GLRTOC  ENTERPRISE Pooled Fund  MTO-MDOT Incident Management System 17

18. Intelligent Transportation Systems Program 18 Thank You Michele Mueller Sr. Project Manager Michigan Department of Transportation Phone: (248)431-1443 Email: muellerm2@michigan.gov muellerm2@michigan.gov Mike Barnet Sr. Project Engineer Ministry of Transportation Phone: (416)235-5110 Email: mike.barnet@ontario.ca mike.barnet@ontario.ca