A comprehensive Internet and wireless telephone alert system is being installed by the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
to instantly notify all affected agencies regarding any cautionary or critical situation that may arise at the U.S.-Canadian border in the tunnel area and to better manage border traffic.
Messages will be beamed via e-mail, wireless devices, and cell phone text messaging to a variety of agencies responsible for law enforcement, public safety, other regional border crossings, traffic control and other governmental agencies.
Officials of other border crossings and public safety agencies will have the ability to use the system to issue notices and alerts. The system will be web based, protected and allow authorized individuals to log in and send secure messages to individuals or previously identified groups.
The system will be operational by fall 2002, and will eventually be expanded to provide instant traveler information to enrolled commercial and passenger customers.
The mile-long tunnel, with traffic volumes in excess of 8.5 million vehicles per year, is owned jointly by the cities of Detroit and Windsor, and operated by the Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corp.