New York Border Planning: Facilitating Transportation Across the Northern 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:
  Canada;United States;New York
• Corporate Publisher:
  Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)
• Description:
  Border transportation planning involves the development of goals, objectives, and strategies for moving people and goods across the U.S.–Canada border. FHWA leads multiple binational stakeholders to collaboratively create safe and effective crossborder transportation. FHWA also facilitates the development and maintenance of the surface transportation system along the U.S.–Canada border to address existing and anticipated demand for cross border travel and trade while working with federal, state, regional, and local agencies, the private sector, and various stakeholders. In 2016, 1.5 million trucks, 7.7 million personal vehicles, and 16 million vehicle passengers crossed through the 16 Land Ports of Entry (LPOEs) along New York's 445 miles of shared border with the province of Ontario, Canada.1,2
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/53752/dot_53752_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 762.35 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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