U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has secured research funding to help increase the efficiency and security of the nation’s border crossings. The action, which provides $125,000 for the Texas Transportation Institute, will be designed to help improve the legitimate flow of goods and people across borders, while interdicting contraband and persons intending harm to the [...]

AUSTIN — The late Charley V. Wootan, former Director Emeritus of Texas Transportation and long time civic leader, was among four prominent Texans inducted into the Transportation Hall of Honor on Monday. The other honorees include: The Honorable Dolph Briscoe Jr., former governor of Texas, Luther DeBerry, former engineer-director of the State Department of Highways [...]

Students of William Howard Taft High School this week are launching the state’s first-ever teen-developed campaign aimed at making the streets and highways safer. Nationwide, more than 5,700 teens died in vehicle crashes during 2001, the most recent year reflected in current statistics. In San Antonio during the same year, 10 teens were killed in [...]

Texas Transportation Institute researchers report that an estimated 43 percent of all fatal traffic crashes in Texas during 2001 involved at least one driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist who was legally drunk. Nationwide, that number is only 35 percent. Becky Davies and David Willis of TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety further state that lack of adequate [...]

Congressman Tom DeLay was successful in securing $1 million to enable the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) to help identify effective approaches for improving mobility and air quality in Houston. TTI will apply results from their nationally recognized transportation research efforts and will work closely with Houston area transportation organizations. The research will include identification of [...]

(Washington, D.C.) – Gene Buth, Division Head of Safety and Structural Systems of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2002 recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Kenneth A. Stonex Award. This award was created in honor of Kenneth A. Stonex, the General Motors engineer who pioneered highway safety in the 1940′s-1950′s. Concepts conceived [...]

(Washington, D.C.) – Dennis L. Christiansen, deputy director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2002 recipient of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) S.S. Steinberg Award. Created in honor of S.S. Steinberg, the founding president of ARTBA’s Research & Education Division (RED), this award recognizes an individual who has made remarkable [...]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) officials will celebrate the unveiling of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Carl Rakeman transportation paintings at the Gibb Gilchrist Building on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Herbert Richardson, director of the Texas Transportation Institute, along with FHWA special guests Dennis Judycki, deputy executive director, and [...]

Jim Kruse became the newly appointed director of the Center for Ports and Waterways (CPW) for the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) on September 1. His role will also engage him as a national sea grant ports and harbor specialist for the Texas Sea Grant College program at Texas A&M University. “Jim’s mixture of personal and [...]

Bob Lanier, the former Houston mayor whose transportation service record spans all levels of government from city hall to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, today became the newest member of the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor at a ceremony in the Lanier home. Guests at the ceremony included much of the state’s transportation leadership [...]