# Presentation: 380718

## Talking Freight:Improving Border EfficiencyThe International Mobility and Trade Corridor Project & The Cascade Gateway

- Talking Freight:Improving Border Efficiency*The International Mobility and Trade Corridor Project** & The Cascade Gateway*
- August 16, 2006
- Hugh ConroyWhatcom Council of GovernmentsBellingham, WA

## Overview

**The Cascade Gateway**
**Programs**: The International Mobility and Trade Corridor Project—IMTC.
**Selected initiatives**:
- WIM software integration
- FAST marketing
- CVO delay study
- Intermodal studies
**Future IMTC objectives**
**Legislation**: Security, immigration

## Slide 3

## Ports-of-entry close-up

## N

**Pacific Highway Port-of-Entry****Photo: WCOG**

**N**

- Canada Border Services Agency

- US Customs & Border Protection

- Duty Free Stores

- Brokerages

- Brokerages

- Brokerages

- Duty Free Stores

- Trucks

- Buses

- Cars

- Cars

- Trucks

- Buses

- Travelers

- Drivers

- Cargo

- Travelers

- Drivers

- Cargo

- W
- A
- D
- O
- T

- BC
- MOT

- Warehouse

- Dairy farm

- Night Club

**Institutions**
**The conveyances**
**The conveyed**

## IMTC Core Group Participants

**Transportation**
- U.S. Federal Highway Administration
- Transport Canada
- U.S. Federal Transit Administration
- WA State Department of Transportation
- B.C. Ministry of Transportation
- Port of Bellingham
- B.C. Transportation Finance Authority
- Whatcom Council of Governments
- WSDOT – Advanced Technology Branch
- B.C. TransLink

**Inspection & Enforcement**
- Canada Border Services Agency
- U.S. Customs & Border Protection

**Other Governmental**
- U.S. General Services Administration
- U.S. Consulate, Vancouver
- Canadian Consulate General - Seattle
- Local, State, Provincial, & Federal legislators

**At-border Municipalities**
- Whatcom County, WA
- City of Surrey, BC
- City of Bellingham, WA
- Langley Township, BC
- City of Blaine, WA
- City of Lynden, WA
- City of Sumas, WA
- City of Abbotsford, BC

**Private Sector**
- Washington Trucking Association
- British Columbia Trucking Association
- Duty free stores
- NW Motor Coach Association
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
- Amtrak
- Border brokerages

**Non-governmental **
- Cascadia Institute (BC) & Cascadia Center (WA)
- Pacific NorthWest Economic Region
- Pacific Corridor Enterprise Council
- B.C. Chamber of Commerce
- Regional Chambers of Commerce (Bellingham,WA; Cloverdale, BC; Delta, BC)
- Tourism Victoria
- Vancouver Board of Trade

## IMTC Organization

**Infrastructure**
- Improve border approach roads and rail.
- Improve north-south and east-west corridor connections.
- Integrate ITS.
-  **Planning & Data**
- Collect needed data.
- Promote Cascade Gateway system management
- Determine feasibility of rail and transit **Operations, Policy & Staffing**
- Promote the US – Canada Smart Border Declaration.
- Increase US border staffing.
- Improve traffic management at the Pacific Highway & Sumas ports-of-entry.
- Support NEXUS & FAST.
- Explore options for binational financing.
- Promote the adoption of passenger-rail pre-clearance under Canada’s 1999 Pre-Clearance Act.

- IMTC Objectives

## IMTC historical project financing

- 1999-2004

- 23 projects
- Both sides of the border

## BC-WA Weigh-in-motion (WIM) Software Integration

- 2003
- Integration of enforcement databases: ICBC & WSDOT.
- Linkage of Weigh-stations via WSDOT central server.
- CVISN equipped trucks can weigh compliant in BC and receive a green-light bypass on SB I-5 at Bow Hill

**Port Mann****WIM**

**Bow Hill****WIM**

## Free and Secure Trade program (FAST)—dedicated truck lane

- Addition of FAST lane, SB to US CBP—Nov 2003.

**BC Ministry of Transportation Drawing**

**US Port of Entry, Pacific Highway**

## WA SR 543 Rebuild (includes a FAST lane)

**July 2006**

**Before**

**Est. 2008**

## N

- FAST lane SB

- Non FAST SB

- Non FAST route for parking and rejoining queue - SB

- US CBP Truck Primary

- CBSA Truck Primary

- All trucks NB

- NB holding for outbound paperwork

- NB Route for parking if still need to file entry, secondary inspection, etc.

- Future (2yrs) NB truck alignment. Will include FAST lane

**N**

- Pacific Highway current and future lane configuration

## FAST Marketing

**Market Research with US CBP**

- Based on 10% sample of 5 days ofinward manifests (March 2004)

**Workshops with Carriers,**** Shippers, & Brokers**

**Trade Shows:****Pictured: BC Truxpo 2004**

**Print media advertising**

## 2006 CVO Delay Study

- Update of 1999/2000USDOT evaluation done  by SAIC/TSi.
- Update of border-related truck transit time in light of new lanes, FAST program, additional security measures, advanced cargo information.
- Results applied to operationsmodeling and additional FAST marketing.

**1**

**2**

**3**

**Roving surveyor at queue-end**

**FAST-lane arrivals & dwell time at staging area (broker & non-broker)**

**Arrival at stop-bar, transition time to booth, processing time, empty?, queue-condition, VACIS backup?**

**Concurrent data collection from inward manifests.**

## Intermodal studies

- Rail – 2002
- Shortsea Shipping – 2003-2006

## Shortsea Shipping

**Vancouver**

**Seattle**

**Tacoma**

**Portland**

**Oakland / Bay Area**

**Los Angeles/Long Beach**

**San Diego**

## VACIS at Pacific Highway

**2003**

**2006**

## IMTC’s future project objectives

- Expanded advanced traveler information systems
- For commercial vehicles: based on CVISN, WIM, cameras, etc.
- Border circulation analysis
- Data collection –commodity flow
- Linkage of CVISN and FAST transponders
- Sumas POE truck congestion relief.

## Legislative issues

- Funding: US CBI Program, Canadian SHIP Program.
- Security:
- US Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHITI)
- US VISIT
- Electronic manifests

## Thank you.

Hugh Conroy
Whatcom Council of Governments
360 676-6974
Hugh@wcog.org
www.wcog.org

- Hugh Conroy
- Whatcom Council of Governments
- 360 676-6974
- _[Hugh@wcog.org](mailto:Hugh@wcog.org)_
- _[www.wcog.org](http://www.wcog.org/)_