Every day teens take their eyes off the road to tweet, text, snapchat, or post to the Internet. In 2013, 3,154 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers. According to NHTSA and the US Department of Transportation, drivers under the age of 20 made up 27 percent (about 850) of the distracted […]
Archives for January 2016
Who’s Driving the Revolution?: Latest Edition of Texas Transportation Researcher Now Available
New technologies are revolutionizing our transportation system. In a few decades, cars could be driving themselves. How the private and public sectors work together to implement these new technologies will prove key to ensuring a seamless, safe and secure transportation network in the future. The latest issue of the Texas Transportation Researcher focuses on TTI’s […]
Study Suggests Austin Residents are Evenly Split on Using Self-driving Cars
How likely might Austin-area residents be to use a self-driving vehicle, which could be on Texas roadways within several years? In a recent TTI study sponsored by the Transportation Policy Research Center, 50 percent of those interviewed said yes to the idea, and 50 percent said no, each group offering a variety of reasons for […]
Schedule of TTI TRB Presentations
Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and Texas A&M University Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers were selected to present papers at the annual Transportation Research Board meeting this month on multiple topics, ranging from infrastructure and safety, to automated vehicles, economics and the environment. Schedule of TTI Presentations
Yu Elected to Chair Special Libraries Association’s Transportation Division
Texas A&M Transportation Institute Research Librarian Hong Yu was recently elected as Chair-Elect-Elect for the Special Libraries Association’s (SLA’s) Transportation Division. Yu will serve as Chair-Elect-Elect in 2016, which also includes being Conference Program Chair for their 2017 annual conference. In 2017, the role transitions to Chair-Elect, prior to assuming the duties as Chair in […]
Polunsky Receives Straub Award Following Homeland Security Masters Class
Steven Polunsky, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) research scientist, is the recipient of a prestigious homeland security award given to one student in each Naval Postgraduate School Center For Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) class. The Curtis H. ‘Butch’ Straub Achievement Award is named after the man who founded CHDS and is presented to the […]