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System Planning

Description

The System Planning Program performs research in the areas of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation planning, transit planning, travel demand management (TDM), transportation financing, smart growth, growth management, land use and transit connectivity issues, sustainable transportation, airport system planning and research, aviation education, and general aviation safety, and performance measurement. Three examples of current projects include the following:

  • Examining relationships between interacting land uses within mixed use developments and their impacts on vehicle trip generation;
  • Developing strategies for partnering between the state DOT and local public and private organizations to fund and implement transportation improvements; and
  • Updating the state airport system handbook.

Expertise

Researchers in the System Planning Program are experts the following fields:

  • Airport System Planning,
  • Airport Facilities,
  • Air Transportation,
  • Aviation Education,
  • Performance measurement,
  • Sustainable transportation,
  • Smart growth,
  • Regional transit coordination,
  • Transit Safety,
  • Transit Passenger Information,
  • Transportation planning,
  • Transportation policy, and
  • Transportation funding and partnering.

Cooperative Relationships/Sponsors

The System Planning Program maintains partnerships with the following:

  • Center For Transportation Research (CTR), The University of Texas,
  • Texas Southern University,
  • Lone Star Executive Airport (Montgomery County--Conroe),
  • Federal Aviation Administration--Southwest Region/External Programs,
  • Mack Trucks, and
  • Private transportation consultants.

Selected sponsors of the System Planning Program include the following:

  • Texas Department of Transportation--Aviation, Transportation Planning and Programming, Public Transit Division, and Environmental Affairs Divisions,
  • Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Houston METRO),
  • Texas Medical Center,
  • City of Houston,
  • Houston-Galveston Area Council,
  • National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP),
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers, and
  • Transportation Safety Center (Texas Transportation Institute).

For More Information

Brian Bochner
Gibb Gilchrist Building, Room 381
TTI/System Planning Program
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 845-1535 · fax (979) 845-6008
b-bochner@ttimail.tamu.edu

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