A prestigious “best paper” award was given to a team of TTI researchers during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 87th Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The paper, “License Plate and Telephone Numbers in Changeable Message Sign AMBER Alert Messages” won the D. Grant Mickle Award for outstanding paper in the field of operation, safety and […]
Archives for January 2008
Man Credits TTI-Designed Guardrail with Saving Life
At only 23, paramedic Garrett Placke has a lot to look forward to. Following his crash into a guardrail, he says he owes the rest of his life to TTI and Trinity Industries. It was raining that Sunday afternoon as he traveled toward College Station on State Highway 47, ironically, not far from the entrance […]
Paul Brubaker Tours, Praises TTI
President Bush appointee Paul Brubaker, Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), told TTI employees, “The world is going to look very, very different in 10 years.” Brubaker was referring to the nation’s growing and shifting population, the price of oil and the challenge of financing infrastructure projects. […]