From Our Friends at TxDOT: Know When to Pass this Super Bowl Sunday

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In 2011, six percent of all DUI alcohol crashes in Texas happened on football game days when a Texas team was playing. If you drink during the Super Bowl, the driver’s seat is out of bounds! Pass up that drink or pass off your keys. Know When to Pass Facebook Page

Calling all TTI Young Professionals in the Houston/BCS Area-Join YPT!

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Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) provides professional development, fellowship, and networking opportunities for young transportation professionals. Founded by several ambitious young transportation engineers, planners, and public policy professionals in the Washington, D.C. area, there’s now an established chapter in most major cities in the U.S. YPT partners with the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the American [...]

TTI at TRB

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TTI and Texas A&M University Zachry Department of Civil Engineering researchers were selected to present papers at the annual Transportation Research Board meeting this month on multiple topics, ranging from infrastructure and safety, to economics and the environment.

Meet Jolanda Prozzi

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One thing Jolanda Prozzi knows is that “the big picture” often needs a closer look. “Have you ever looked at a mosaic close up?” she asks. “From a distance, it looks like a portrait of one thing. Close up, you can see it’s made up of hundreds of individual images. That’s the way I like [...]

Photo Database Designed to Help Employees

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TTI employees have access to a web-based repository of transportation-related and internal TTI employee photos. These images can be downloaded to your computer or shared with colleagues outside the agency (e.g., TxDOT). TTI’s Digital Image Archive consists of a growing database that contains over 38,000 transportation and 12,000 Institute-related photographs to date. The archive is [...]

Ross Perot, Jr., Inducted into Texas Transportation Hall of Honor

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Ross Perot, Jr., chairman of both Hillwood, one of the nation’s top real estate developers, and the Perot Group, an investment management firm, has been inducted into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor. The induction took place at a Hillwood employee meeting in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, Dec. 20. Through Perot’s leadership, the Hillwood team [...]

A&M, Blinn Students Key in Planning Future B-CS Travel

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Students from Texas A&M University and Blinn College will soon be helping planners decide future mobility needs in the Bryan-College Station area by taking part in a travel survey conducted by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with help from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). “Obviously students account for a considerable amount of traffic [...]

Door Decoration Contest Sparks New TTI Tradition

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It started out as a simple but friendly holiday competition between two TTI departments housed close together at SHRB. Now it might just become an intense annual rivalry. Employees with Network and Information Systems (NIS) and Human Resources (HR) were given less than a week to decorate their doors with a Christmas holiday theme. The [...]

Researchers Study Motivations for Speeding

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Researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and Battelle have found that while reasons for speeding are based on a wide variety of factors, previous ideas about speeder demographics and personality types were confirmed. This information can be used to identify improved speeding countermeasures. The reasons vary based on a variety of situational, demographic [...]

A Star is Born: Employees Recognized in First-Time Awards Program

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Thirty-four employees have been named recipients of the inaugural TTI STAR Awards, designed to honor staff that go above and beyond their regular duties. The nomination process began in September, an anonymous committee (appointed by Agency Director Dennis Christiansen) reviewed the nominations, and winners were notified in November and December. There are three levels of [...]