Members of the Texas House Committee on Transportation on August 30 heard the latest on how states are shaping the policies that govern how new ride-hailing operations provide their on-demand services. Ginger Goodin, director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center (PRC) offered a summary of the findings from Policy Implications of Transportation Network Companies, the PRC’s […]
Archives for August 2016
Little Presents Monismith Lecture
Dallas Little, senior research fellow at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, gave the C.L. Monismith Lecture at the Geo-Chicago conference August 17. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute (G-I) is one of the eight specialty ASCE institutes. Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Little was awarded the lecture […]
Smart Campus Website Goes Live
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has launched a new website that provides information about the Campus Transportation Technology Initiative, funded by Texas A&M University and currently under way by TTI under the direction of Texas A&M Transportation Services. The website includes current research projects and a link to the Request for Information (RFI) for […]
Christiansen Honored with ITE Matson Award
Dennis Christiansen, agency director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), was awarded the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Theodore M. Matson Award on August 15 during the ITE Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. “Dr. Christiansen has worked tirelessly for more than four decades to further research in the areas of traffic operations, transportation and […]
Cast Your Vote for TTI Panels at SXSW 2017
Senior Research Engineer Ginger Goodin and Assistant Transportation Researcher Sarah Overmyer of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have proposed two panels for the South by Southwest Conference to be held March 10-19, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Both panels examine how technology and transportation intersect to impact our quality of life. Self-Driving Cars and the […]
Brewer Named Eno Fellow
Marcus Brewer, an associate research engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), has been selected as an Eno Fellow — a designation from the Eno Center for Transportation that highlights the top transportation graduates in the country. The Eno Center for Transportation is named after William Phelps Eno, a traffic control and regulation pioneer […]
Transport Trends Highlights Questions About Automated Vehicle Crashes
The second issue of Transport Trends, the e-newsletter of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, highlights the PRC’s recent study examining the issue of crashes involving automated vehicles. Other topics include: regulation of transportation network companies, financing for coastal port infrastructure, and public opinion on transportation issues.
TTI’s Brooks Helps Brownsville Secure Federal Dollars
Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Assistant Research Scientist Jonathan Brooks was part of the team that helped secure a $10 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant for the city of Brownsville, Texas, the largest grant to date for the city. The city will use the unique transit improvement grant to help pay for the rehabilitation […]
Follow the Leader: Two-Truck Automated Platoon Test Is a Winner
“Can we deploy an automated, commercial two-truck platoon on specific corridors in Texas in the next 5 to 10 years?” Thanks to a successful test by TTI, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the agencies are a big step closer to answering that question. TTI hosted a first of […]
TTI Researchers to Participate in Smart Transport Symposium
Seven researchers from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute will present at the 2016 Smart Transport Symposium on Friday, August 5, at The University of Texas at Austin Thompson Conference Center. Hosted in connection with TxDOT Research Project 0-6838 (Bringing Smart Transport to Texans: Ensuring the Benefit of a Connected and Autonomous Transport System in Texas), this […]
Tomorrow’s Growth: Nurtured by Research
TRANSPORTATION TODAY IS IN TRANSITION. Congestion is clogging our roadways, particularly in urban areas, wasting fuel, polluting air, and negatively impacting the quality of life for everyday commuters. Expanding economies are demanding more responsiveness from our transportation system to optimize shipping and squeeze every ounce of efficiency out of the bottom line. Yet many of […]