Anthony P. Voigt, P.E.

Voigt, Tony

Research Engineer
Program Manager

Research and Implementation - Houston
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
701 N. Post Oak Rd., Suite 430
Houston, TX 77024
ph. (713) 686-2971 Ext. 15108 · fax (713) 686-5396
t-voigt@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Mr. Anthony Voigt has been a member of TTI's staff for 12 years and currently serves as the Program Manager for the Houston Research and Implementation office as well as a Research Engineer. Mr. Voigt has over 15 years of traffic and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) experience in both the public and private sectors and holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. His professional interests include computerized traffic simulation and modeling, corridor management and monitoring, roadway design and geometrics, ramp metering, motorist user cost studies, and ITS technology, architecture, and applications.

Mr. Voigt's activities include hurricane evacuation planning, corridor analysis, traffic modeling, roadway operations and safety research, signal design, interconnect design, signing design, priority corridor development, priority corridor project mapping to the ITS Architecture, Changeable Lane Assignment System (CLAS) evaluation on US 290 in the Houston Priority Corridor, and responsible charge of a team of engineers. Mr. Voigt was also involved in developing methodologies to determine the estimated benefits of the incident management activities of Houston TranStar using automatic vehicle identification (AVI) data, travel delay calculations, and historical accident data.

Mr. Voigt is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Texas Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society. Mr. Voigt is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. Mr. Voigt has attended numerous ITS trainings and seminars, including the FHWA ITS Architecture Training Course.

Education

  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1995.
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1993.

Experience

  • Research Engineer, Research and Implementation - Houston, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, May 2007 - Present.
  • Program Manager, Research and Implementation - Houston, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, April 2005 - Present.
  • Associate Research Engineer, Research and Implementation - Houston, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2004 - April 2007.
  • Assistant Research Engineer, Research and Implementation - Houston, Texas Transportation Institute, March 2002 - August 2004.
  • Project Manager, Traffic and Intelligent Transportation Systems Division, Klotz Associates Inc., June 1999 - March 2002.
  • Assistant Research Engineer, Freeway Operations, Texas Transportation Institute, May 1999 - August 1999.
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Freeway Operations, Texas Transportation Institute, June 1995 - April 1999.
  • Research Associate, Freeway Operations, Texas Transportation Institute, February 1995 - May 1995.
  • Graduate Assistant Research, Corridor Operations, Texas Transportation Institute, June 1993 - January 1995.
  • Student Technician, Corridor Operations, Texas Transportation Institute, May 1992 - May 1993.
  • Engineering Assistant III, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), 1991 - December 1991.

Professional Registration

Registered Professional Engineer in Texas, Registration No. 84845, 1999.

Affiliations

  • Associate Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).
  • Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Texas Section (TexITE).
  • Member, Chi Epsilon - The National Civil Engineering Honor Society.

Academic Courses Taught

Transportation Engineering. Prairie View A&M University, 1998, 1997.

Short Courses Taught

Techniques for Determining Construction Related Road User Costs. Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Short Course. 1998.

Selected Publications

A.P. Voigt, A.A. Nelson, J.M. Tydlacka, R. Stevens, S.T. Chrysler. Lane Assignment Traffic Control Devices on Frontage Roads and Conventional Roads at Interchanges. 0-6106-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. 2011.

A.A. Nelson, J.M. Tydlacka, R. Stevens, S.T. Chrysler, A.P. Voigt. Lane Assignment Traffic Control Devices on Frontage Roads and Conventional Roads at Interchanges: Technical Report. 0-6106-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. November 2011.

K.N. Balke, A.P. Voigt. Operational and Institutional Agreements that Facilitate Regional Traffic Signal Operations Programs. 477730-2. Texas Transportation Institute, Houston, TX. February 2011.