New TxDOT Leader, Meeting Place for Short Course The 81st Annual Transportation Short Course provided the transportation community with a chance to hear from recently appointed Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Executive Director Amadeo Saenz in his new role. The first Hispanic leader of TxDOT rose through the ranks in the Pharr District, beginning in [...]

Technical Reports “LoadGage User’s Guide,” by Emmanuel Fernando, 0-4519-P3, November 8, 2007. “Urban and Suburban Arterial Highways Workshop Materials,” by James Bonneson, 0-4703-P7, October 23, 2007. “Recommended Rehabilitation Options for Concrete Pavements,” by Thomas Scullion, 5-1731-01-P1, November 1, 2007. “Initial Assessment of Compliance of Texas Roadside Safety Hardware with Proposed Update to NCHRP Report 350,” [...]

The Texas Transportation Institute is pursuing a number of initiatives. One of those, which is highlighted in this issue of the Researcher, involves identifying whether there is an appropriate and meaningful role for TTI in conducting international research and, if so, effectively developing that role. For a variety of reasons, this appears to be a [...]

The Texas Transportation Institute’s new, international research initiative takes flight Transportation is a thread that knits countries and economies together worldwide. Innovations in congestion relief, safety and the reliability of roadway systems—many developed at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)—have made just-in-time inventories and next-day deliveries commonplace. And while reaching across oceans and continents to share [...]

Researchers look to improve North American trade Moving commodities efficiently is vital to the economies of North American countries. According to the San Diego Association of Governments and the California Department of Transportation, more then 80 percent of the total trade in North America is accomplished by truck and rail. In 2005, post-9/11 security requirements, [...]

The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) is poised to expand its international research presence to the European Union state of the Czech Republic. Joe Button, senior research fellow with TTI, participated in the Central European (CE) T2 (technology transfer) meeting held last September. The objectives of the meetings were to offer participants the opportunity to learn [...]

When more than 175,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, few of them had visions of glory. Most were simply scared young men barely out of high school who were assigned a rather daunting mission: to free Europe from Nazi domination. Under constant enemy fire, 200 men from James [...]

In the fall of 2004, Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) Associate Transportation Researcher Carlos M. Chang-Albitres led efforts to help improve the transportation infrastructure in the Republic of Paraguay. Along with Joe Button, TTI Senior Research Fellow, Chang-Albitres used fluency in Spanish and his transportation research background to help craft a five-year memorandum of agreement (MOA) [...]

For years, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) has conducted groundbreaking research in the area of pavement markings and retroreflectivity. Now TTI is taking its expertise nationwide in a pavement marking demonstration project in Alaska and Tennessee. The project, sponsored by the United States Department of Transportation, is studying the safety impacts, environmental impacts and cost-effectiveness [...]

The stately board room in the Texas Department of Transportation’s historic Dewitt Greer Building in Austin was an apt setting for the induction ceremony of three transportation visionaries into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor September 25. The class of 2007 includes J.C. Dingwall, Ernest E. Howard and Marcus L. Yancy Jr. Director Dennis Christiansen [...]