Hawkins Honored with Educator Award

Gene Hawkins ITE award

Dr. Gene Hawkins, associate professor in the Texas A&M Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, is the recipient of a prestigious educator award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Hawkins, who is also a research engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), received the 2012 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award at the [...]

Finley Elected President-elect of TexITE

ITE/TTI partnership anniversary pin

Texas Transportation Institute Associate Research Engineer Melisa Finley was recently elected to serve as vice president/president-elect of the Texas District of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (TexITE). Finley will begin her term as vice president on January 1, 2012, and then serve as president in 2013. Finley’s duties include chairing the program committee and developing [...]

TTI Researchers receive awards at annual ITE meeting

Kay Fitzpatrick and ITE International President Robert C. Wunderlich.

The Traffic Engineering Council Technical Committee on Pavement Marking Patterns Used at Uncontrolled Pedestrian Crossings: An Informational Report was selected to receive the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE’s) 2011 Coordinating Council Best Project Award. Kay Fitzpatrick, research engineer at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), chaired the committee, and TTI Assistant Research Engineer Marcus Brewer was [...]

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Dignitaries gathered at the TTI and IBM signing

TTI and IBM Partner for Intelligent Transportation Solutions In a collaboration that could lead to future transportation improvements in Texas and around the globe, leaders from the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) and IBM signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) during a ceremony in Austin April 1. “This agreement is a starting point that allows us [...]

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The mobile motorcycle training unit for LookLearn Live motorcycle safety campaign.

Awards and more Communications staff designs motorcycle safety trailer The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) showed off its eye-catching, mobile motorcycle training unit at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in July as board members of the Texas Motorcycle Safety Coalition held a meeting at the Institute. The mobile classroom is part of the DPS [...]