CrossingWise counts the vehicles in public traffic-camera frames and turns that count into an estimated wait, once a minute, for every crossing it monitors.
It exists because the alternative is guesswork: a queue you cannot see until you are in it, or a number posted hours ago. We publish what the camera shows, alongside what travellers report, and we keep the two apart so you can judge both.
Every estimate carries the vehicle count it came from, the throughput assumed, how fresh the frame is, and a confidence level. If a number looks wrong, you can see why.
Camera estimates and community reports are shown side by side, never averaged into one figure. They measure different things and disagree for good reasons.
CrossingWise is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or verified against any border authority, customs agency, or webcam operator. When confidence is too low to build on, we withhold the forecast rather than dress it up.
Four steps, once a minute, per crossing.
A still is pulled from the public camera covering the approach lane, via uzivokamere.com.
Object detection counts what is queued inside the lane region. Freight terminals are excluded.
The count is divided by that crossing's estimated hourly throughput. A “≥” prefix means the queue reached the camera's limit.
Frame freshness, visibility and detection quality decide whether the estimate is published as high, medium or low confidence.
Severity is always written out as well as coloured, so the scale works without colour vision.
Public traffic cameras on the approach lanes. We read frames; we do not store or republish footage.
Traveller-submitted waits, refreshed at most every five minutes, and the source of the hourly history charts.
The camera sees a fixed stretch of road at one moment. A traveller reports the time they actually spent, including the part of the queue no camera covers. Both are useful; neither replaces the other.
The queue extends past the camera's field of view, so the real wait is at least that long and possibly much longer.
The camera has not returned a usable frame recently — night, weather, or an outage upstream. Stale entries are marked so they never look as authoritative as fresh ones.
CrossingWise provides independent estimates based on available camera observations, historical data, and third-party or community reports. Border conditions can change quickly, and actual waiting times may differ. Do not rely on CrossingWise as the sole source for travel, legal, immigration, customs, or safety decisions.
A camera pointing the wrong way, a crossing we should add, a throughput figure that looks off — tell us and we will check it.
CrossingWise is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or verified against any border authority, customs agency, or webcam operator.