5 th Bi-Annual Border to Border Conference Performance Measures at Commercial Ports of Entry Juan Carlos Villa.

5th Bi-Annual Border to Border Conference

Performance Measures at Commercial Ports of Entry

Juan Carlos Villa

Agenda

• Land border crossing operations

• Land border performance measures

• Challenges/Opportunities

• Next Steps

Land Border Crossing Operations Surface trade

grew from $97 billion to more than $400 billion since NAFTA started.

More than $30 billion dollars of trade traffic cross the border on a monthly basis

Surface Trade between U.S. and Mexico

Land Border Crossing Operations

Crossings grew from 3 to more than 3.5 million between 2000 and 2013.

Average annual growth higher than GDP growth

Land Border Crossing Operations

Three potential inspection points

Multiple stakeholders:•2 countries•Public and Private•Federal, state, local

All need to be coordinated

US Bound Commercial Vehicle Crossing

US-Mexico Commercial Vehicle Crossing

U.S. exportCustoms Broker

U.S. exportCustoms Broker

Customs Broker

NAFTA’s plan

Customs Broker

NAFTA’s plan

Mexico CityNuevo Laredo

Laredo, Tx Detroit

Mexican export

Mexico CityNuevo Laredo

Laredo, Tx Detroit

Mexican export

Land Border Crossing Operations

Poor travel time reliability at land border crossings

Negative Impacts

• Supply chain performance• Inventory costs• Vehicle Emissions• Regional economic impacts

Land Border Crossing Operations

Land Border Performance Measures

Northbound commercial vehicle travel time measurements

Wait times

Crossing times

Real time

Archived data

Delays – Annual hours of delay per crossing

Planning Time Index (reliability) – ratio of 95th percentile travel time to the uncongested travel time

Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Land Border Performance Measures

• Capability to provide travel times to users in real time

http://bcis.tamu.edu

Texas A&M Transportation Institute

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Land Border Performance Measures

Freight Fluidity

• Transport Canada’s “fluidity indicator”

• Evaluate the performance of trade corridors and multi-modal supply chains.

• Measures total transit time and travel time

reliability of goods along defined supply chains.

Land Border Performance Measures

Border Freight Fluidity

How “fluid” the supply chains at international border crossings are operating in terms of

mobility and reliability.

Land Border Performance Measures

Two performance components: 1. Mobility and reliability measures:

o Delayo Extent/duration/intensity of congestiono Cost of wasted fuelo Cost of timeo Economic impacts

Border Freight Fluidity

2. How much freight is moved?o Truck volumes by time of day

Empty Loaded FAST Non-FAST

o Weighto Value (by commodity type)

Land Border Performance Measures

Challenges Capture additional information to supplement

current measures:• Volumes by empty, loaded, FAST, Non-FAST• Commodity (inside the box)• Annual Congestion Cost – value of truck

operating costs plus wasted fuel

Complement measures to include the whole supply chain

Opportunities Take advantage of emerging technologies

• GPS, Bluetooth, Wifi Develop additional applications with input

from private and public sector stakeholders• Annual Congestion Cost – value of truck

operating costs plus wasted fuel• Emissions

Provide information for border crossing operations to carriers, shippers, federal and state agencies

Thanks, Gracias

Juan Carlos VillaTexas A&M Transportation Institute

Mexico City [email protected]

979-862-3382+52-55-5254-1382