Researchers from TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center (PRC) shared research findings on September 28 with two subcommittees of the Texas House Committee on Transportation.
Archives for September 2016
Groundbreaking for Center for Infrastructure Renewal Kicks Off RELLIS Campus Construction
Texas A&M University System officials on Monday kicked off their aggressive construction schedule for the new 2,000-acre RELLIS campus with a groundbreaking for its first new building, the Center for Infrastructure Renewal. It is a collaboration among the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and the private sector. Just five months […]
TTI Provides Guidance for Overhead Sign Lighting
One of the major emerging technologies in highway safety has been the improvement of the types of retroreflectivity sheeting used on overhead signs on roadways. Modern signs are very efficient at returning light back to the driver, creating a much safer nighttime driving environment. Because of this, many departments of transportation are opting to remove […]
Workshop on Accelerated Road Construction Paves Way for Future Research Needs
Completing major road reconstruction projects years ahead of schedule — especially in Texas’ urban areas — saves lives, time and a lot of commuter frustration. However, speeding up the process while maintaining the quality of the work and emphasizing safety is no easy task. It requires extensive planning, coordination and buy-in from all the players. […]
Birgisson Brings Vision, Experience to CIR Leadership Role
When asked why he accepted the leadership position for the new Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR), Dr. Bjorn Birgisson’s answer is simple: “TTI and Texas A&M are the best place in the world to be for infrastructure research.” His claim might sound glib, but it’s born of experience. Trained as a professional engineer in the […]
Call for Nominations: 2017 Texas Transportation Hall of Honor
Nominate Someone Today! The Texas A&M Transportation Institute is seeking nominations for the 2017 Texas Transportation Hall of Honor. The creation and operation of the Texas transportation system are the result of unusual vision and leadership provided by a relatively small number of exceptional individuals. The Texas Transportation Hall of Honor, established in January 2000, […]
New Transport Mode to Redefine Freight Movement
Autonomous Freight Shuttle Grew From TTI Research Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday helped unveil a new mode of transportation and applauded the partnership of university research and industry investment that made it possible. Abbott was joined by Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp in rolling out the autonomous Freight Shuttle System (FSS), which […]
TTI Staff Plays Major Role in Automated Vehicles Symposium
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) was well represented at this year’s Automated Vehicles Symposium held July 19–20 in San Francisco. Researchers from across the Institute helped organize breakout sessions on topics such as truck platooning, ways to shape policy, physical infrastructure and traffic flow. Over 1,200 people attended this year’s symposium, making it one […]
Redefining Freight Movement
Volume 52, Number 3 (2016) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: Intellectual Curiosity and Innovation: Research Leads the Way to Implementation TTI Researchers Find Innovative Ways to Use Rural Transit to Move People and Goods The TxDOT/TTI Team: Making Roadside Safety History Transformative by Design: The Autonomous Freight Shuttle Started with a Simple Drawing Uber, […]
Intellectual Curiosity and Innovation: Research Leads the Way to Implementation
Without curious minds, our transportation system would, quite literally, come to a standstill. In a very real way, the transportation research process keeps the system moving, and that process starts with a seemingly simple question: How can we do this better? Asking that question shines the light of innovation on the status quo to help […]
TTI Researchers Find Innovative Ways to Use Rural Transit to Move People and Goods
Texas is a big state. Serving the mobility needs of rural residents is important. Public transit plays a key role in getting people where they need to go and might play a future role in getting goods to people. As part of a Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) project, researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation […]
The TxDOT/TTI Team: Making Roadside Safety History
As the temperature hovered around 100 degrees on August 9, 2016, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) roadside safety device experts and a Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) transportation engineer gathered on a runway at the Texas A&M University RELLIS Campus. They were hoping to witness a historic crash test under TxDOT’s Roadside Safety Device Crash-Testing […]
Transformative by Design: The Autonomous Freight Shuttle Started with a Simple Drawing
As legend has it, Southwest Airlines started with an idea sketched on the back of a napkin. And from that humble drawing grew an idea that redefined air travel. About 30 years later, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Scientist Steve Roop started with his own blank sheet of paper, in search of a […]
Uber, Lyft and Other TNCs: How Governments Are Approaching Ride-Hailing Regulation
When is a technology company not a taxicab company? That question illustrates one of the challenges in regulating transportation network companies (TNCs), the businesses that provide prearranged rides through a digital network, most often via a smartphone app. Since 2010, those companies have argued that they’re not like traditional taxicab enterprises, and as such, they […]
TTI Teaches Campers About Transportation
For more than 20 years, researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have educated future generations about transportation engineering. These programs range from K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities to the basics of how TTI researchers conduct their studies. This summer, TTI welcomed students from the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum […]
TTI Advisory Council
Advancing the Vision The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Advisory Council is comprised of a small group of high-level transportation and business professionals from across Texas and every sector of the transportation world. The council, which meets annually, offers a tremendous service to the Institute by advising on transportation issues and trends and supporting TTI’s […]
TTI News
Goodin Represents TRB at Capitol Hill AV/CV Roundtable On June 22, Ginger Goodin, director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, helped lead a broad discussion of policy issues that will help shape the federal government’s role in the development of automated and connected vehicles (AV/CVs). Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL) hosted the event in Washington, D.C. […]
TTI Publications
Research Videos Access the research topics listed below via the URLs shown. Freight Movement Redefined: https://vimeo.com/183842437 Making Traffic Demand Models More Realistic Representations of Congestion: https://vimeo.com/170486486 Continued Implementation of High Performance Thin Overlays in Texas Districts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV37q-H-fWk Using Public Transportation to Facilitate Last Mile Package Delivery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZC6Tk_CPOo TTI Enhances Its Proving Ground with New Research […]