U.S./Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation

Planning

Improving Cross-Border Transportation

Oct. 22, 2014

Kenneth Petty

Director, Office of Planning FHWA

Over View

• Background

• JWC origins, purpose and goals

• Biennial Work plan items

• Greening Transportation @ Border

• Conclusion

FHWA’s Border Role

Improve coordinated border related decision-making

Ensure transportation investments efficiently move people and goods across the borders

Support national security

Background

Border Significance

The value of trade (imports and exports) between the US/Canada and US/Mexico during 2014 was $366,807,000,000.

The number of US bound truck crossings between the three countries; the United States, Mexico and Canada, was 10,843,525 in 2013.

An average day in 2013, 629,645 incoming travelers cross our through land ports of entry (POEs).

Background

Background

US – Mexico Border

The U.S-Mexico border extends 1,954 miles. There are 45 active land border POEs and 9

international railroad crossings on this border.

Background

• Originated in 1994 via MOU

• Coordinates transportation planning

• Chaired by FHWA/SCT and formed of federal and state partners

• Twin goals of communication and coordination

• Biennial work plans

U.S./ MX Joint Working Committee

Biennial Work plans Past Efforts

• Regional border master plans

• Traffic forecasting and data coordination

• Border wait-time studies

• Greening the border

• Innovative financing proponent

• Bottleneck studies

2013-2015 Work Plan

Border wait-time studies– Multiple Pilot Projects– Border wait-time integration– Analysis of how to use & disseminate wait-time

data– Upcoming US/Mexico Border wait-time peer

exchange

2013-2015 Work Plan

Six Regional Border Master Plans– Laredo District/Coahuila-Nuevo Leon-Tamaulipas

June 2012– Lower Rio Grande Valley/Tamaulipas Oct. 2013– El Paso-Santa Teresa/Chihuahua Oct. 2013– Arizona/Sonora Feb. 2013– California/Baja California 2008 & July 2014– New Mexico/Chihuahua – started Oct. 2014

http://www.borderplanning.fhwa.dot.gov/masterplans.asp

2013-2015 Work Plan

Transportation Modeling & ITS capacity Building– Border Transportation Modeling peer exchange.

Border ITS standards coordination Border finance workshop Binational corridor & multimodal freight

management strategies

2013-2015 Work Plan

California integrated border approach study Douglas, AZ / Agua Prieta POE traffic study Binational San Luis / San Luis Rio Colorado

Sonora transportation study

• Freight Peer Exchange

–Data Dictionary

–Freight Fluidity

–Cross Border Data

For more information

Sylvia GrijalvaUS/Mexico Border Planning CoordinatorFHWA602-510 7986Sylvia.Grijalva@dot.gov

Or

The JWC website:www.borderplanning.fhwa.dot.gov/mexico.asp

THANK YOU !

Kenneth PettyDirector, Office Of Planning

Federal Highway Administration.