For corridor planning projects that involve interaction with border crossings, border towns, or facilities adjacent to the border, it is important to get information on the flow of goods and people between United States and Mexico. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provides data and statistics on multimodal freight (highway, rail, aviation, maritime, etc.), transportation economics, commercial aviation, and border crossing data. Information related to the import and export of commodities can be found on the website by port of entry and can be filtered by different time frames and mode of transportation. Data related to Mexico is available on the website for the National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics (INEGI). This website has information related to demographics (education, employment, population), economy and productive sectors (trade, manufacturing, GDP, transport), geography and environment (maps, environment), and government-related information. This data may be downloaded in a spreadsheet format and broken down by geography and year. See

Appendix H, Section 1 – External References (Reference 8)

for a link to the INEGI website.