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  title info:
    title: Evaluating Mexican truck safety at the Texas/Mexico border
  name:
    name part: Schofield, Mike (Michael)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Harrison, Robert
    name part: 1942-
  name:
    name part: University of Texas at Austin
    name part: Center for Transportation Research.
  name:
    name part: Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 16 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: In June 2004 the U.S Supreme Court ruled that the United States should open its borders to cross-border trucking and so fulfill its treaty obligations under the NAFTA. Opponents of this action included those who believed that Mexican trucks were unable to meet current U.S. trucking safety standards on a consistent basis. This report examines this legitimate concern by evaluating border trucking data collected at border safety inspection facilities (BSIF) operated by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Safety statistics derived from Mexican trucks crossing the U.S. border are compared with American truck safety data to determine whether there is any warrant for the safety concerns that helped delay the border opening. The results show that out of service rates are now not significantly different between the two countries. While increased border inspections since 2001 have reduced out of service citation rates, 2003 and 2004 seem to mark a plateau for 2005 and 2006, where increased inspections may have had a diminished effect in lowering rates. This, if confirmed by safety data collected for later years, may put into question the benefits of the planned permanent border safety inspection facilities -- still not all in service in 2006 - relative to their substantial operational costs and the possible distortions in state truck safety from having a large percentage of DPS staff allocated to the southern part of Texas.
  note: by Mike Schofield, Robert Harrison.
  note: "September 2007."
  note: Also available online via the Southwest Region University Transportation Center website (http://swutc.tamu.edu/).
  note: Performed by the Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas at Austin, sponsored by the Southwest Region University Transportation Center DTRS99-G-0006
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-16).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Trucking
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    topic: Safety measures
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research report (Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)) ; no. 07/473700-00071-1
  identifier: http://swutc.tamu.edu/publications/technicalreports/473700-00071-1.pdf
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://swutc.tamu.edu/publications/technicalreports/473700-00071-1.pdf
  record info:
    record content source: JCR
    record creation date: 080124
    record change date: 20151108070643.0
    record identifier: in00002347143