COLLEGE STATION, TX – Dr. Herbert Richardson, director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), was recently honored as a National Associate of the National Academies, an honorary title established by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Richardson¿s achievement carries a lifetime appointment. “Dr. Richardson¿s service in transportation is valued, honored, and appreciated both [...]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – John Overman, associate research scientist with the Texas Transportation Institute, was selected by The National Transit Institute (NTI) at Rutgers University to be part of the Fellows class of 2003. NTI Fellows are selected through a national nomination process for a combination of insight and recent, first-hand experience in implementing advanced [...]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – Dr. Naomi Ledé, senior research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in College Station, Texas was honored as the recipient of the inaugural Sharon D. Banks Award for Innovative Leadership in Transportation on January 16, 2002, at the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) 81st Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C. “Dr. [...]

State transportation officials on Thursday will pay tribute to the man considered to be the father of the Texas highway system when they induct Dewitt C. Greer into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor. Greer, a 1923 graduate of Texas A&M University, joined the Texas Highway Department in 1927 and served as the engineer-director of [...]

COLLEGE STATION – Three of the transportation industry’s most prominent contributors have been selected for induction into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor. The inductees are Gibb Gilchrist, a former executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation; DeWitt Greer, a former state commissioner of transportation and executive director of TxDOT; and Herb Kelleher, chairman, [...]

COLLEGE STATION— U.S. Representative Tom DeLay and Texas A&M officials on Tuesday announced $1 million in federal funding to support advanced research in transportation operations and promote widespread implementation of the findings from that research. The funding will be dedicated to the Transportation Research Implementation Consortium for Operations and Management (TRICOM), which is housed at [...]

The Texas Transportation Institute and the Texas Department of Public Safety agreed to join forces on future transportation research projects through a Memorandum of Agreement approved in July by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents and TTI and DPS directors. Successful cooperation on the ALERT project, a vehicle-based information system designed to improve the [...]

Two groups of Texas high school students will attend intensive courses emphasizing transportation as a viable career option at the 1999 Summer Transportation Institutes this month. The program will be held at Texas Southern University in Houston July 5-16 and at Paul Quinn College in Dallas July 19-30. Each two-week institute, hosted by the Texas [...]

The Texas Transportation Institute Center for Ports & Waterways has won an International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) Award for Information Technology for MERMAID, the Internet-based clearinghouse used in locating maritime industry information. Every two years IAPH recognizes innovative projects, research and studies that are seen to provide value to the maritime transport and [...]

Laura Wright, webmaster at the Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, recently joined presenters from several prominent corporations at a national conference on intranet development. At the 1999 National Online Meeting held May 21 in New York, Wright joined with information professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Newsweek, MIT Libraries and COMTEX to advance understanding of how intranet sites [...]