Dress rehearsals are a common element of life. Sports teams typically have walk-throughs, weddings have rehearsal dinners, and plays have dress rehearsals. These are standard practices that don’t change much but are quite valuable. Likewise, transportation agencies and professionals use modeling to simulate how changes to our transportation infrastructure will impact traffic flow. Where modeling […]
Archives for 2010
NOW: Taking It to the Streets: Collecting travel time data, speed with Bluetooth technology
You might be familiar with the name Bluetooth® as a way of wirelessly talking on your cell phone. More generally, it’s a personal area network that connects devices wirelessly over short distances. Researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) are using Bluetooth technology for a host of applications involving traveler information, traffic management and planning […]
THEN: Application of Technology In Traffic Operations Research Goes Back to Earliest TTI Studies
(excerpt from “A Study of Freeway Traffic Operation” by Charles J. Keese, Charles Pinnell and William R. McCasland, 38th Annual Meeting, Highway Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 5-9, 1959) In 1956, the Texas Transportation Institute initiated a research project for the Texas Highway Department to correlate freeway operational characteristics with design features.…The study was made […]
Tightening Your Beltway in Tough Times
Perhaps the single greatest challenge to transportation today is funding — funding to build, funding to operate, funding to maintain. Budgets are shrinking, but the driving population isn’t. One way to address these competing challenges is through innovation. Research and economic projections tell us that our future transportation needs far exceed our current funding levels. […]
Improving Our Transportation Operations
Volume 46, Number 1 (2010) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: Editorial Tightening Your Beltway in Tough Times Technology and Innovation THEN: Application of Technology In Traffic Operations Research Goes Back to Earliest TTI Studies NOW: Taking It to the Streets: Collecting travel time data, speed with Bluetooth technology Innovative Modeling Method Discovered in El […]
Unifying the Safety Effort: 2010 Traffic Safety Conference
It’s clear – especially after glancing at the proposed agenda for the upcoming 2010 Traffic Safety Conference – that communities, agencies, and the state and federal government are determined to make our roadways safer. Exactly how that’s achieved is up for discussion. The Texas Transportation Institute’s Center for Transportation Safety (CTS) is organizing the event […]
Regents Approve Two TTI Transportation Research Centers
Two new transportation research centers were approved by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday, Jan. 21. Both centers were established to improve the transportation system in Texas and across the country. The centers are part of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), a member of the Texas A&M System. The Center for […]
Regents Appoint Epps as Executive Associate Director of TTI
Dr. Jon A. Epps, P.E., a Senior Research Fellow at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), has been appointed Executive Associate Director for the Institute effective February 1. The leadership appointment was approved by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday, Jan. 21. Epps, with more than 40 years of professional experience — […]
Edwards Honored by TTI for Transportation Efforts
In a ceremony in Washington, D.C., the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) recognized Congressman Chet Edwards for his ongoing efforts to champion transportation research. Edwards, the U.S. Representative from Texas’ 17th District, was presented with the 2010 TTI Director’s Research Champion Award at the Institute’s January 10 reception at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. The […]
Texas Transportation Institute Teams with INRIX
INRIX’s Nationwide Coverage and Superior Data Accuracy Transform the Institute’s Approach to its Nationally Recognized Report on Traffic Congestion College Station, Texas and Kirkland, Wash. – The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) announced today it has selected INRIX® as the exclusive private provider of traffic information for the 2010 Urban Mobility Report. TTI’s 2010 Urban Mobility […]