Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers will join 2,000 colleagues in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, beginning May 31 for the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) Annual Meeting. Entitled Bridges to Innovation, the four-day 25th Annual Meeting and Expo is designed for researchers and engineers, business leaders, policy makers, elected officials and public sector participants to […]
Archives for May 2015
TTI Field Trip Introduces Students to Engineering Careers
About 40 sixth graders from College Station’s Oakwood Intermediate School were introduced to the world of transportation engineering at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) May 8, as part of the College Station Independent School District’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program. AVID prepares children (who may not be thinking about higher education) for college, […]
Road User Charges For Transportation Funding: Right for Texas?
Tune in as Trey Baker, Associate Research Scientist at TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, will be interviewed tomorrow morning, Thursday May 21st, at 7:15 a.m. on news radio station 740 KTRH regarding Oregon’s Road Usage Charge (RUC) Program and whether RUCs could work for Texas. TTI researchers are working to find solutions to Texas’ long-term […]
Teens in the Driver Seat® Expands to 35 States Thanks to State Farm® Grants
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and State Farm today announced that expanded funding from the nation’s largest insurance company has helped to introduce the successful Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) program in more than 100 new schools, resulting in the program now being active in 35 states. Officials say that the $470,000 in […]
Kyle Field Gameday Experience Earns State Award
Texas A&M University Transportation Services and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute recently received the “Award of Excellence” for Parking Program of the Year from the Texas Parking and Transportation Association for their work on the “Texas A&M University Gameday Experience 2014.” With the renovation and expansion of the Kyle Field stadium, and subsequent increase in […]
2015 Traffic Safety Conference Program Announced
The program for the 2015 Traffic Safety Conference is now available. The conference is June 8–10 at the Omni Hotel–Corpus Christi. | View the Conference Program Don’t miss the opportunity to hear about effective strategies during the breakout sessions, visit with up and coming stars in transportation research during the student poster sessions, or engage […]
Record Setting Year for Texas Aviation Conference
Aviation professionals, supporters, exhibitors and enthusiasts converged at the Embassy Suites Hotel in San Marcos, TX, on April 15-17 for the 33rd Texas Aviation Conference. This year’s conference, which was sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Aviation Division, set an all-time attendance record with 566 registered guests. “Many people may not realize how […]