Ullman Receives Regents Fellow Designation

Gerald Ullman receives Board of Regents award

Gerald Ullman, Texas A&M Transportation Institute senior research engineer and manager of the work zone and dynamic message sign research program, has been presented with a Regents Fellow Service Award, which is among the most prestigious honors bestowed by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The award was presented during ceremonies held at [...]

Graduate Student Paper Competition–Addressing the Future of Texas Transportation

Writing paper

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Strategic Solutions Center is sponsoring a graduate-student research paper competition. Our goal: Encourage developing researchers to think about the future of Texas transportation. All Texas A&M University graduate students, including those currently employed by TTI, are encouraged to enter the competition. A $1,000 stipend will be awarded the winning entry. Papers [...]

Meet Tom Williams

Tom Williams

Tom Williams likes a challenge. It’s one of the reasons he went into his current field. “I’ve been studying and working in transportation planning since graduate school, with a focus on travel demand modeling and travel forecasting. These areas are essential to making good transportation decisions. I wanted — and still want — to make [...]

Meet Robert Wunderlich

Robert Wunderlich

Robert Wunderlich has been named the acting director for the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), a member of the Texas A&M University System. Wunderlich, formerly served as the City of Garland’s senior managing director for transportation, streets, engineering and stormwater, also holds the title of research engineer since he assumed [...]

Meet John Sedlak

John Sedlak.

John Sedlak, manager of rail passenger research at TTI, has just finished his first six months with the Institute. Often at the half-year mark, an organization evaluates the employee to make sure “the fit is right.” Though TTI no longer has this formal assessment step, if the process were reversed, John says, he’d give TTI [...]

Meet Joe Dunn

Joe Dunn.

Assistant Chief Financial Officer Joe Dunn likes putting complex puzzles together, especially financial ones. But at the end of the day, he notes, the puzzle pieces have to fit together to make a coherent whole. “I went into this line of work primarily because of the challenge,” Joe says. “It involves taking complex data and [...]