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No.846 Using Truck Probe Data to Measure Border Clearance Time: Evidence from Thailand
by Kazunobu Hayakawa, Souknilanh Keola, Shujiro Urata
March 2022
ABSTRACT
This study proposes a new approach for measuring border clearance time using truck probe data. Specifically, by using Global Positioning System (GPS) logs of trucks that cross border gates between two bordering countries, we measured the time for crossing the border gates in various ways. To demonstrate how this approach works, we employed probe data in Thailand, which included GPS logs of trucks that crossed Thai border gates to neighboring countries. We found some differences in the time required near the border area among different borders. For example, on the border with Laos, a large part of the time seems to be spent near the border. We also detected sudden increases in the time taken for customs clearance at the border with Malaysia. Furthermore, we empirically investigated how an increase in exports handled at the border changes the border crossing time. We found that it increases the border clearance time mainly because of the congestion in customs clearance and immigration procedure rather than on the nearby roads.
Keywords: Probe data, Border time, Thailand
JEL classification: F10, R40
PDF available at http://hdl.handle.net/2344/00052977
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