Bill Anderson
Ontario Research Chair in Cross Border Transportation Policy
Director, Cross-Border Institute
University of Windsor
For Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce, Policy and Solutions Forum
May 15, 2014
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Capital that provides public services
 Large initial investment
 Benefits over a long period of time
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Why is it public?
 No private firm can do it
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 Natural monopoly
 Principal of equity
 Externalities (congestion, pollution, criticality)
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Economic stimulus
User benefits
Non-user benefits (congestion relief)
Enhanced productivity
Transformational benefits
 Water / sewage and urbanization
 Railroads and Western agriculture
 Ambassador Bridge and automotive industry
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If you build it, they may never come.
Building infrastructure is only half the job.
Understand how infrastructure changes the
economic landscape and seize new
opportunities
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Herb Gray Parkway / DRIC Bridge
Continental Rail Gateway
Lauzon Corridor
Highway 401 ends
14 Signalized Intersections
in less than 10 Km Segment
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With the right connection, land ready for
development is practically “on” the 401
With the Herb Gray Parkway and the DRIC
bridge “on the 401” is practically “on the
border.”
Containers to and from the Continental Rail
Gateway pass through the area serves by
Lauzon connection.
Building infrastructure is only half the job.
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Funding from FedDev Ontario to create an
integrated cross-border logistics and security
cluster in Windsor-Essex
New logistics buildings in airport lands
Cross-Border Institute (CBI) at U Windsor:
research, education and outreach
Institute for Border Logistics and Security
(IBLS) on Airport Lands: promote borderrelated cluster.