Texas’ Click It or Ticket (CIOT) campaign achieved a significant milestone this year — 10 years of success. Since the campaign began, safety-belt use in Texas has reached record levels.
Enlightening Sign Time: TTI Helps Spread the Word about New National Retroreflectivity Standards
March 1, 2011
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) publishes the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) establishing national standards for all traffic signs. All agencies that maintain public roadways use the MUTCD to ensure signs and markings are uniform in their design and placement. Until recently, the MUTCD did not address when a traffic sign should be [...]
Virtual survey crew ahead: Radiusmeter takes guesswork out of signs, markings for horizontal curves
September 1, 2010
Consistency is an important principle in roadway safety. It ensures that roadways conform to recommended guidelines and promote safety to drivers. The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) has developed the Radiusmeter to help improve consistency on horizontal curves. “A large percentage of crashes occur on horizontal curves on two-lane highways,” says Paul Carlson, head of TTI‘s [...]
The Forgiving Roadside: TTI research, facilities are vital to protecting your loved ones
September 1, 2010
It’s five times safer to travel on our nation’s roadways today than it was five decades ago. For every 100 million miles Americans traveled in 1960, five people died. Today, the rate has dropped to just over one death per 100 million miles. “As a nation 50 years ago, we decided that killing tens of [...]
If you build it…TTI lab is testing facility of choice for many
June 1, 2009
In Field of Dreams people from all over the country came to a baseball field to relive their childhood fantasies of playing alongside their favorite players. The playing field in the movie was magical…but how about polluted? Pollution is certainly a problem in the real world, and especially in our nation’s waterways. Everything from household [...]
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night:TTI research improves nighttime driving safety
June 1, 2009
Drivers have numerous tools they can use in their quest to drive safely. Properly maintained traffic signs and pavement markings are two of them. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) originally aimed its Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) at ensuring that signs and markings were uniform in their design and placement. This promoted consistent [...]
Gate keeping in the 21st century: New Anti-Ram Standard Enhances Safety, Security
June 1, 2009
In the Middle Ages, gate keepers had it relatively easy. Castles were considered the pinnacle of defensive warfare technology. Then gunpowder was invented, and holes blasted in stone walls caused medieval strategists to reevaluate their old way of thinking. A similar change has occurred following terrorist attacks of the last 15 years, where the preferred [...]
