Project status: Completed
WCOG developed a border-wide portal to historical border wait-time (BWT) data for all U.S.-Canada crossing locations that had a BWT system in 2012.
The U.S. – Canada Border Data Warehouse stored data for the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, NY/Fort Erie, ON; and the Lewiston/Queenston Bridge in Niagara, NY/Niagara Falls, ON. It also stored data from the Cascade Gateway Border Data Warehouse.
Stakeholder agencies as well as headquarters offices who took an early interest in and supported development of the Cascade Gateway Border Data Warehouse have acknowledged it as a success. As U.S. and Canadian federal agencies begin to install wait time systems at the twenty busiest ports along the U.S. – Canada border, the Border Wait Time (BWT) Working Group defined an objective to archive resulting data in a national archive for ongoing analyses, improved performance measurement, and improvement of regional border data. The Niagara region was the first installation site under the BWT working group effort. This project advanced the objective of providing an archive based on a successful model already serving constituent agencies in a busy cross-border corridor.
The project began in the fall of 2012 and completed in spring 2014.
Due to a lack of maintenance funding, the collected data were archived at the end of 2017 and the website taken down.
$490,000
This project cost $490,000 (USD) and was funded by:
Transport Canada
WA State Department of Transportation
U.S. Federal Highway Administration
Contact Melissa Fanucci, Principal Planner, Whatcom Council of Governments by email or phone (360-685-8385).