Passenger cars and trucks slammed into a TTI-designed bridge rail in August at speeds never before tested at the Texas A&M Riverside Campus. The vehicles reached 85 miles per hour in tests designed to prepare for high-speed roadways under consideration by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in an effort to expand the state’s transportation […]
Archives for August 2009
Transportation Partners Celebrate Past Accomplishments, Future Relationship
Despite an impressive, 60-year partnership between the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), the relationship has never been formally celebrated…until now. On August 5, members of the ITE Executive Committee and International Board of Direction arrived in College Station to hold their annual board meeting in advance of the organization’s […]