Border Information Flow Architecture

Transport Canada and the Federal Highway Administration are co-leading the development of a Border Information Flow Architecture The Architecture could help guide a deliberate effort to ensure that technology deployed at border crossings are able to interact with each other. Federal, state and provincial agencies from both sides of the border have been actively participating in the working group.

Intelligent Border Crossing

Transport Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) have engaged a consultant team to develop an Action Plan for the deployment of ITS at Ontario’s international border crossings. The Action Plan will include a concept of operations which provides a vision for how technology can help move people and goods to and across the Ontario-United States borders; a multi-year strategy for implementing ITS solutions at Ontario’s border crossings; and preliminary design of the approved ITS solutions. Throughout the duration of the project, the consultants will identify several “early win” projects that can be initiated in the short term. The federal portion of the project is funded through the Border Infrastructure Fund (BIF).

Workshops

Transport Canada’s ITS Office has sponsored a number of workshops to provide an opportunity for information exchange on current and planned ITS systems, projects and products at points of entry along the Canada - United States border, ports, and along corridors. So far, the workshops include:

Press Releases

April 20, 2004
Governments of Canada and Ontario launch new project to make border crossing more efficient

September 21, 2004
Governments of Canada and Ontario work to make border crossing more efficient