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The North/West Passage Corridor encompasses the states along I-90/I-94 from Wisconsin to Washington and is an FHWA Transportation Pooled Fund (TPF) Study.

The vision of the North/West Passage Corridor is to immediately influence ongoing standards development and utilize effective methods for sharing, coordinating, and integrating traveler information across state borders. While travel information reflects the initial destiny, maintenance and operations and planning and programming are long term visions.

The goals of the corridor are to:

1. Integrate traveler information systems that can provide information appropriate to the location and need of the traveler.
2. Develop and promote cross-border jurisdictional cooperation and coordination in the planning, deployment, operations, and maintenance of ITS infrastructure.
3. Integrate ITS projects for the North/West Passage Corridor into the state, regional, and local planning and programming processes.

In the North/West Passage Corridor states (North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota) there are currently numerous systems for collecting, processing and integrating traveler and road maintenance information, and for delivering the information to users. However, this information is not readily shared across state borders.