Behind the Numbers Webinar: Border Crossing and TransBorder Freight Data
Event Information
Description
Behind the Numbers is a Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) quarterly webinar series providing insight into the collection, analysis, dissemination, and usage of transportation statistics.
Overview
BTS has recently modernized its Border Crossing and TransBorder Freight Data programs. Although they are separate data programs, both provide an invaluable and unique view of North American trade and transportation from passenger to freight flows. Border Crossing Data provide users with comprehensive monthly and annual incoming vehicle, container, passenger and pedestrian entry count information for all U.S. border ports of entry from Canada and Mexico. The TransBorder Freight Data provide North American merchandise trade and freight data by commodity type, by mode of transportation (rail, truck, air, water, pipeline, mail, and other), and with geographic detail for U.S. exports to and imports from Canada and Mexico. The data are being used for trade corridor studies, transportation infrastructure planning, marketing and logistics analyses, and other purposes.
During this webinar, Steven Beningo of BTS will show how customers can use the interactive TransBorder Freight Data dashboards to visualize cross border freight movements. In addition, new query tools for both the Border Crossing and TransBorder Freight data sets will be shown.
Steven Beningo works as a Transportation Specialist in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation. In his current position, Mr. Beningo works on international transportation data programs. He manages the TransBorder Freight Data Program, which involves data on U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico by mode of transportation. In addition, Mr. Beningo works on border crossing data, serves as the Secretary of the Transportation Research Board’s International Trade and Transportation Committee, as the Chair of the Transportation Energy and Environmental Indicators Working Group of the North American Transportation Statistics Interchange, as the Co-Chair of the Trade and Traffic Data Committee of the Transportation Border Working Group, and functions as the BTS Liaison to the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office’s Connected Data Systems Program.
Contact Information
Please contact Michael.Green@dot.gov with any questions.
Additional Notes
We encourage you to forward this invitation to interested colleagues, and hope you will be able to participate! A recording of the webinar will be made available with further details to be announcement.
To participate, you will need a computer with internet connectivity to view the visual content and computer speakers or phone to hear the audio.
The following link to the webinar room will also be sent via email after registration:
https://connectdot.connectsolutions.com/behindthenumbers/
Dial-In Information: Audio Number: 1-866-390-1828
Access Code: 6499380#