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Photo for visual interest. A truck (only the front shown) runs head-on into a metal guardrail with the ET-2000 end treatment. The end of the guardrail begins to deform.

Developed for TxDOT, the ET2000 is a guardrail end treatment that improves the chances of drivers surviving a run-off-the-road crash.

Safety and Human Performance

Crash statistics are grim, sobering numbers that stare back at us from a page. But these statistics represent more than tough, often violent crashes--they represent human lives and the devastating impacts of traffic crashes.

Safety and human performance researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute consider their work a professional passion--a calling. Research conducted here helps people walk away (and sometimes drive away) from what may have been the worst day of their life.

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Related Subtopics

TTI conducts research in a number of specific transportation-related areas. Click the following link to see a list of the subtopics related to this area.

For More Information

Gene Buth
Assistant Director Materials, Safety and Structures
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 845-6159
g-buth@tamu.edu
or
Susan Chrysler
Center for Transportation Safety
Human Factors Group
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 862-3928
s-chrysler@tamu.edu