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Buffalo Niagara Wait Time Pilot Project Update

Buffalo Niagara Wait Time Pilot Project Update. TBWG April 2012 Ed Strocko Federal Highway Administration. Purpose . Test , Evaluate and Deploy Technologies to Automate the Measurement of Real-Time Border Wait Times at United States – Canada Land Border Crossings. Phase I.

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Buffalo Niagara Wait Time Pilot Project Update

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  1. Buffalo Niagara Wait Time Pilot Project Update TBWG April 2012 Ed Strocko Federal Highway Administration

  2. Purpose • Test, Evaluate and Deploy Technologies to Automate the Measurement of Real-Time Border Wait Times at United States – Canada Land Border Crossings

  3. Phase I • Evaluated four solutions • GPS/Smartphone • Bluetooth • RADAR • Vehicle Waveform identification

  4. Phase 2 Elements • Deploy a system • Validate its performance • Put in place a long-term operational model Technologies • Bluetooth • GPS/Smartphone (dropped)

  5. Phase 2 Activities • Installation of a Bluetooth-based system at two US-Canada crossings in the Niagara region • Peace Bridge between Buffalo, NY and Ft. Erie, ON • Queenston-Lewiston Bridge between Queenston, ON and Lewiston, NY • Calibrate and verify the functionality and accuracy of the system and to support integration with existing traveler information systems. • Concept of operations will be developed that describes the operational model as applied in the Niagara region, and applicable to other international border crossings.

  6. Issues • Technological • Intermittent technical malfunction internal to some of the detectors • Need to lengthen readers from 1 hr. to 2 hr. queue • Misalignment of some readers • Operational • Funding • Maintenance • Reporting

  7. Recent Activities • Relocation of upstream readers to enable wait time detection up to 2 hours (January-February 2012). • Calibration of system with new readers positions (to be determined based on historical volume information-spring 2012). • Meeting with stakeholders (March 2012) • Ground-truth measurement and analysis supporting system acceptance following system calibration (measurement completed April 6th and analysis currently underway).

  8. Next Steps • Integration of agency systems with BWT system (spring 2012) • Concept of Operations (Spring 2012) • Investigate funding of instrumentation for Rainbow Crossing • Plan for transition to agency responsibility (Summer 2012) • Continued operation and monitoring of system until transition to agencies (through December 30, 2012)

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