Published In

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Subjects

North American Free Trade Agreement, Traffic flow -- Measurement, Traffic flow -- Simulation methods, United States -- Commerce -- Mexico, Mexico -- Commerce -- United States

Abstract

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) truck traffic continues to grow on the international trade highway corridors linking the United States to Mexico. This situation presents planning challenges to accommodate NAFTA truck traffic along these highways and at U.S.-Mexican border ports of entry. Because transportation data are lacking, the numbers of trucks, particularly those carrying NAFTA trade to and from Mexico, are difficult to estimate. Two data sources available for estimating the number of trucks crossing the border are the counts of trucks crossing the bridges and the U.S. international trade data. Two methods of estimation, each using one of these data sets, are developed and described. Two separate truck flows derived from the models are explained and compared using a standardized truck type (equivalent trade truck) to represent truck flows. Interestingly, both methods provide useful outcomes.

Rights

Copyright, National Academy of Sciences. Posted with permission of the Transportation Research Board. None of this material may be presented to imply endorsement by TRB of a product, method, practice, or policy.

DOI

10.3141/1763-07

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20814

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