The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta awarded the “New Investigator Training Award for Unintentional Injury Prevention” to Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in early September. This $100,000 grant was awarded to study measures for improving the safety of older drivers by improving the design of traffic roundabouts. Roundabouts are circular intersections that require entering […]
Archives for 2003
Texas Summer Transportation Institute Shapes Future Leaders
When contemplating career options, most high school students give only passing consideration to transportation careers. Jonathon Garza is an exception by choosing a career in aviation. A program underway across the country and here in Houston this month aims to help more students follow his lead. The Texas Transportation Institute is teaming up with Texas […]
Senator Hutchison Secures Funding to Aid Border Crossings
U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has secured research funding to help increase the efficiency and security of the nation’s border crossings. The action, which provides $125,000 for the Texas Transportation Institute, will be designed to help improve the legitimate flow of goods and people across borders, while interdicting contraband and persons intending harm to the […]
Charley Wootan among those honored for contributions to state’s transportation system
AUSTIN — The late Charley V. Wootan, former Director Emeritus of Texas Transportation and long time civic leader, was among four prominent Texans inducted into the Transportation Hall of Honor on Monday. The other honorees include: The Honorable Dolph Briscoe Jr., former governor of Texas, Luther DeBerry, former engineer-director of the State Department of Highways […]
High school, state agencies join to launch unique teen driving safety campaign
Students of William Howard Taft High School this week are launching the state’s first-ever teen-developed campaign aimed at making the streets and highways safer. Nationwide, more than 5,700 teens died in vehicle crashes during 2001, the most recent year reflected in current statistics. In San Antonio during the same year, 10 teens were killed in […]
TTI finds Texans drunk more often in traffic crashes, calls for better laws and reporting
Texas Transportation Institute researchers report that an estimated 43 percent of all fatal traffic crashes in Texas during 2001 involved at least one driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist who was legally drunk. Nationwide, that number is only 35 percent. Becky Davies and David Willis of TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety further state that lack of adequate […]
DeLay Brings Funding to Houston to Help Ease Congestion
Congressman Tom DeLay was successful in securing $1 million to enable the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) to help identify effective approaches for improving mobility and air quality in Houston. TTI will apply results from their nationally recognized transportation research efforts and will work closely with Houston area transportation organizations. The research will include identification of […]
Texas Transportation Institute Official Earns National Honor
(Washington, D.C.) – Dennis L. Christiansen, deputy director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2002 recipient of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) S.S. Steinberg Award. Created in honor of S.S. Steinberg, the founding president of ARTBA’s Research & Education Division (RED), this award recognizes an individual who has made remarkable […]
Texas Transportation Institute Official Earns National Honor
(Washington, D.C.) – Gene Buth, Division Head of Safety and Structural Systems of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2002 recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Kenneth A. Stonex Award. This award was created in honor of Kenneth A. Stonex, the General Motors engineer who pioneered highway safety in the 1940’s-1950’s. Concepts conceived […]