Ambassador Bridge Crossing Summary Ambassador Bridge Crossings 180 170 Outbound 160 150 Inbound Overview 140 130 120 The Ambassador Bridge connects Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan and 110 is the single busiest international land border crossing in North America, 100 90 accommodating 27 percent of the approximately $400 billion in annual trade 80 between Canada and the U.S. Almost 3.5 million commercial vehicles used the 70 60 bridge in 2000. The bridge is 1.6 miles long from tollbooth to primary 50 inspection checkpoint in either direction. There are four lanes with directional Volume Per Lane Per Hour 40 30 flow controlled by overhead changeable electronic lane markers, often in 20 combination with cones. It operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 The bridge and its collateral facilities are privately owned by an entity known as Time in Minutes the Ambassador Bridge who operates and maintains the bridge and collects tolls on both sides of the crossing. The Ambassador Bridge’s U.S. owner is the Detroit International Bridge Company and its Canadian subsidiary is The Typical Inbound Traffic Canadian Transit Company. Ambassador Bridge owns the facilities that house No Delay Travel Time = 12.28 minutes Canada Customs and Immigration while GSA owns the U.S. Customs facility. Travel Time Volume per Booth Open Booths The U.S. and Canadian Customs authorities operate the facilities and control the 90 6 80 property where their respective Customs facilities are located. 5 70 4 60 50 3 40 2 30 Crossing Times 1 Average Travel Time 20 Number of Open Booths Average Hourly Volume and 10 0 Average 95th Baseline Crossing Percentile Buffer Buffer Time1 Time2 Time3 Time4 Index5 6AM - 7AM 7AM - 8AM 8AM - 9AM 1PM - 2PM 2PM - 3PM 3PM - 4PM 4PM - 5PM 5PM - 6PM 6PM - 7PM 9AM - 10AM 12PM - 1PM Outbound 5.7 8.8 13.9 4.9 55.7 10AM - 11AM11AM - 12PM Inbound 12.9 20.4 33.9 13.4 65.7

Notes: 1Baseline time (in minutes) to travel the study distance (between the starting point in the Typical Outbound Traffic exporting country and the initial inspection point in the importing country) in free-flow No Delay Travel Time = 5.93 minutes traffic conditions. Travel Time Volume per Booth Open Booths 2Average crossing time (in minutes) to travel the study distance. 3 90 9 Time (in minutes) for 95 percent of trucks to travel the study distance. 80 8 4Time (in minutes) between the average time and the 95th percentile time for trucks to 70 7 travel the study distance. This is the "extra time" that must be budgeted to cross the 60 6 50 5 border relative to the average time. 40 4 5Buffer time necessary expressed as a percentage of average time. This is the extra 30 3 percentage of average time that must be budgeted to cross the border. 20 2

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FY 2001 Border Crossing Site Overview April 2002