U.S.-Mexico Border Planning: Facilitating Transportation Across the Southern Border

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• Corporate Creators:
  Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Border regions
  • Cooperation
  • International borders
  • International travel
  • Planning methods
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  Mexico;United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  Border transportation planning involves the development of goals, objectives, and strategies for moving people and goods across the U.S.–Mexico border. FHWA leads multiple binational stakeholders to collaboratively create safe and effective cross-border transportation. FHWA also facilitates the development and maintenance of the surface transportation system along the U.S.–Mexico border to address existing and anticipated demand for cross border travel and trade while working with federal, state, regional, and local agencies, international partners at the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) of Mexico, the private sector, and various stakeholders. The U.S.–Mexico border is the most frequently crossed international border in the world. In 2016, over 5.8 million trucks, 75.6 million personal vehicles, and 140.7 million vehicle passengers crossed through the 47 Land Ports of Entry (LPOEs) along the U.S.'s 1,933 miles of shared border with Mexico.1,2
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/53744/dot_53744_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 846.64 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7f101213860b531502ed2db78a1665273433a29efa42be98f8606961003619a1ee6e5592b1d2a36932a9c677e15c6264e0e55e680a773f121c24527fc86da9a6