If you want safer roads, you have to have accurate and effective accident reporting. That’s why traffic safety experts and researchers — but especially Texas law enforcement officers — are cheering a proposed new accident-reporting form. The new form was the result of a collaboration between TTI and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) designed […]
Archives for January 2011
Annual Study on Nationwide Traffic Congestion to be released January 20
The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) will distribute the findings of its annual Urban Mobility Report at 12:01 a.m. CDT on Thursday, January 20, 2011. Sponsors of the study, established in 1982, include the Texas Transportation Institute, the University Transportation Center for Mobility, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association – Transportation Development Foundation, and the […]
Leading the Distracted Driving Research Effort
TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety (CTS) is positioning itself to become the go-to source in Texas for research related to distracted driving – a growing safety concern for policy makers in the state and around the country. Enter Joel Cooper, an assistant research scientist hired by CTS last summer. Already, he has testified twice before […]
Hydrogen Fuel Tanks Tested at TTI
The Texas Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Roadside Safety Program is helping to determine the crashworthiness and safety of vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel tanks in a series of unusual crash tests at the Riverside Campus. The tests will help provide data toward the development of federal motor vehicle safety standards when hydrogen becomes an alternative fuel […]