On Tuesday, October 13, and concurrent with the 89th Annual Transportation Short Course, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Materials and Pavements and Construction, Geotechnical and Structures Divisions hosted an open house of four transportation research laboratories. Facilities participating in the open house included TTI’s McNew Lab, High-Bay Structural and Materials Testing Lab, the Sensors […]
Archives for October 2015
I-35, SH 130 Route Decisions Just Got Easier
Interstate 35 motorists north and south of Austin are now able to decide, with just one glance, if taking the toll road is the better choice. Developed and installed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), dynamic travel-time signs comparing estimated I-35 and State Highway 130 toll road […]
Hudson Awarded NHTSA grant for The Unintended Highway Pedestrian
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has been selected by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to conduct a one-year project on reducing the number of motor vehicle–related pedestrian fatalities in Texas. Project manager and TTI Associate Researcher, Joan Hudson has been awarded $47,500 for the one-year project titled, The Unintended Highway Pedestrian – What […]
Henk Receives NSC’s 2015 Teen Driving Safety Leadership Award
The National Safety Council (NSC) recently awarded Russell Henk, program manager for TTI’s Youth Transportation Safety Program, the organization’s 2015 Teen Driving Safety Leadership Award. Henk won the award for his “long-term commitment to reducing teen crashes through developing, nurturing and growing” Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS), the program Henk founded more than a […]
89th Annual Transportation Short Course Brings Research, Implementation Together for Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is holding its 89th Annual Transportation Short Course on the campus of Texas A&M University Oct. 12–14. The event, organized and co-hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and TxDOT, briefs the department’s employees about the latest innovations resulting from the TxDOT’s transportation research. It also gives the […]
New Findings: More New Oil and Gas Wells, More Crashes and Injury Costs
A new study from TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center shows a correlation between increased oil and gas drilling activity and crashes in energy-rich areas of the state. The findings are based on a comparison of two timeframes: 2006-2009 and 2010-2013 in the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale regions. In both the Permian […]
TTI Researcher Assists with Innovative Safety Program
MyCarDoesWhat, a national public education campaign launched by the University of Iowa (UI) and National Safety Council (NSC), kicks off this week. The one-of-a-kind campaign is dedicated to educating and demonstrating to drivers vehicle safety technologies designed to help prevent crashes. The foundation for the campaign was set by the National Consumer Survey of Driving […]