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 […]
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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 […]
Texas House committee hears TTI research on state TNC regulations
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 […]
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 […]
Distracted Pedestrians Create Unique Challenges for Researchers
An undergraduate student researcher at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently conducted a project that took a unique spin on the distractions involved with mobile devices. Instead of distracted driving, George Gillette studied distracted pedestrians. “At the beginning of summer 2015, Dr. (Kay) Fitzpatrick pitched to me a couple of interesting fields of research […]
Little Presents ASCE Turner Lecture
Dallas Little, Senior Research Fellow at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), presented the Francis C. Turner Lecture at the 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) International Conference on Transportation and Development. The conference was held in Houston June 26-29. ASCE announced Little as the recipient of the award earlier this year, citing his […]
Edrington Named to APTA Board
TTI Associate Research Scientist Suzie Edrington has been named to the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA’s) Transit Development Corporation Board. The appointment automatically makes her a member of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Oversight and Project Selection Committee. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee “develops near-term, practical solutions to problems facing transit agencies” and […]
TTI’s Fitzpatrick Receives Award Named for TTI Director Christiansen
Kay Fitzpatrick, senior research engineer and manager of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Roadway Design Program, has received numerous awards over the course of her 33-year career at TTI. But the one she received at the 15th International Conference on Managed Lanes in Miami, Florida, held May 4-6, holds special significance. Fitzpatrick accepted the inaugural […]
TTI Researchers Conduct Transit Accessibility Workshops and Webinars
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, more than 19 percent, or 56.7 million of the U.S. population, lives with some type of disability. For some of these people, basic tasks such as finding reliable means of transportation may prove difficult. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently designed a series of workshops and webinars […]
Zmud Selected as Lifetime NRC ‘National Associate’
TTI Senior Research Scientist Johanna Zmud has been selected as a National Associate of the National Research Council. Zmud was selected as a member of the 2016 Class of National Associates — which includes 8 other members — for her voluntary “extraordinary service” to the Transportation Research Board (TRB). “National Associate” is an honorary, lifetime […]