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Ullman Receives Regents Fellow Designation The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents bestowed its prestigious Regents Fellow Service Award on Gerald Ullman, TTI senior research engineer and manager of the Work Zone and Dynamic Message Sign Program. Presented Jan. 30, 2013, the award recognizes employees who have made exemplary contributions to their university or [...]
Christine Yager Presents at Human Factors Annual Meeting TTI Associate Transportation Researcher Christine Yager gave a presentation, “The Effects of Reading and Writing Text-Based Messages While Driving,” at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society held Oct. 22–26. More than 1,450 participants from the United States and the world attended. TTI [...]
Safer Roads, More Work Highlighted at Traffic Safety Conference As part of the theme of improving safety on highways in Texas and across the nation, the leader of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the retiring state legislator known as “Senator Safety” were featured speakers for TTI’s fourth annual Traffic Safety Conference June [...]
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor for engineering at The Texas A&M University System, director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering, made her first official visit to TTI on March 22. She was accompanied by Dr. Dennis O’Neal, associate dean for research and deputy director [...]
Updated Geometric Design Research Report Released The Transportation Research Board recently published NCHRP Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. The report, written by TTI Associate Research Engineer Marcus Brewer, reviews and summarizes roadway geometric design literature completed and published from 2001 through [...]
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp visited TTI Jan. 12, telling Institute officials, “TTI is the shining star of the A&M System, so you don’t have to win me over; you just have to educate me.” Sharp, who became the 14th chancellor of the A&M System on Aug. 15, spent the afternoon learning firsthand [...]
Center for Railway Research Established at TTI With a focus on improving railway safety and enhancing the performance of the nation’s rail system, the Texas A&M Board of Regents has approved establishing the Center for Railway Research (CRR) as a part of TTI. “Having this center is a very positive step in our plans to [...]
TTI and PAHO to Collaborate on Roadway Safety Research The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO), and TTI have partnered to collaborate on roadway safety research. TTI’s discussions with PAHO first began in 2007, when the organization expressed an interest in the Teens in the Driver Seat [...]
ITE Recognizes Teens in the Driver Seat TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) is the recipient of the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ 2011 Transportation Achievement Award in Safety. TDS Program Director Russell Henk was presented with the award at the ITE Annual Meeting in St. Louis Aug. 15. This is the second time TDS [...]
Freight Shuttle, New Guardrail Highlighted at Awards Luncheon Eight TTI employees were recognized at the Patent and Innovation Awards Luncheon May 6, which was held at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at the George Bush Presidential Library. Steve Roop, Leslie Olson and Curtis Morgan were honored for their patent, described simply as a freight transportation [...]
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