Ongoing & Completed Projects - Cross-Border Institute

In addition to its traffic lab, policy, economic and educational programs, the Cross Border Institute supports and coordinates diverse research by a cross-section of University of Windsor faculty and their students with the common goals of making borders work better and enhancing cross-border commerce, research and public services:

Completed Projects

Analysis of the Herb Gray Parkway and Gordie Howe International Bridge infrastructure on the performance of the Windsor-Essex road network

Collection and analysis of a nation-wide micro-level business establishment commercial vehicle movement data

Optimal tolls for competing bridges with highway network congestion effects

Ongoing Projects

Real-time analysis/simulation and short-term prediction of commercial crossing times

Big data analysis of over 1.5 billion records from GPS transponders in trucks

Assessing vulnerability, criticality and resilience in Southern Ontario freight networks

Development of a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the full economic impacts of border crossing policies

Assessing the potential benefits of increased use of RFID technologies at border inspection plazas