Greg Winfree, agency director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), has been appointed to the board of directors of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). ITS America “promotes public and regulatory policies that advance the development and deployment of intelligent transportation technologies throughout the United States,” by supporting research, deployment and public […]
Archives for 2017
Texas A&M National Infrastructure Symposium Summaries Released
The need for efforts to relieve regulatory restrictions, prepare for automated and connected vehicles, and educate the public about how infrastructure is funded were a few of the key themes of the National Symposium on the Barriers and Opportunities for Infrastructure Renewal, held on the Texas A&M University campus at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center […]
Trump Returns for Another Round of Testing at TTI’s Environmental Chamber
In 2015, Trump, Inc. utilized the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Environmental and Emissions Research Facility (EERF) to test a piece of equipment that uses a laser to cut sheet metal for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and job shops alike. The testing went so well their research and development team returned last month to test another […]
Testing of New Technology for Traffic Signs Shows Great Promise
In the world of intelligent transportation systems, drivers may find out information about the roadway through changeable message signs or their smartphones. But what about everyday traffic signs that deliver this, and other valuable information as well? Recent testing by the Texas A&M Transportation (TTI) demonstrated that innovative technology is on the cusp of enhancing […]
TTI’s Shawn Turner Profiled in TR News
Shawn Turner, senior research engineer and head of the Mobility Division of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, has been profiled in the National Academy of Sciences publication, TR News. Turner talks about his two main research interests: bicycle (and pedestrian) transportation and the technological advancement of data collection for use in mobility analysis. Read the […]
TTI’s Henk Appointed Chair of the Texas Teen Safe Driving Coalition
With the last 15 years of his professional career dedicated to the safety of teen drivers and their passengers, Russell Henk, senior research engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), has been named chairperson of Texas’ Teen Safe Driving Coalition — a partnership led by the National Safety Council. Henk is the program manager […]
TTI’s Tradition of Teamwork
Volume 53, Number 4 (2017) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: 20 Years of Partnering with ARTBA on the Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse A Partnership in Progress: TTI, USDOT Celebrate a Half Century of Research Innovations Using Big Data to Improve Traffic Counts TTI, Houston TranStar Partnership Celebrate 25 Years of Traffic and Emergency […]
At a Glance: 20 Years of Partnering with ARTBA on the Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
Celebrating 20 Years of the Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse See related story. *Source: American Road and Transportation Builders Association, Transportation Builder®, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 5, 16–22. On this page: For More Information For more information:
A Partnership in Progress: TTI, USDOT Celebrate a Half Century of Research Innovations
For the past 50 years, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has provided assistance to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to make the nation’s transportation system safer, more efficient and more resilient. Across the DOT’s spectrum of modal agencies—air, highways, motor carriers, rail, transit, maritime, traffic safety, and pipeline and hazardous materials—TTI expertise has […]
Using Big Data to Improve Traffic Counts
For years, Gene Hicks thought there had to be a better way to count the number of vehicles traveling his state’s roadways. As director of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT’s) Traffic Forecasting and Analysis Section, Hicks oversees the tedious task of laying out road tubes at approximately 33,000 sites (about 12,000 each year) to […]
TTI, Houston TranStar® Partnership Celebrate 25 Years of Traffic and Emergency Management Service
TTI research and technical support pivotal to development and success over the years Approaching its quarter-century birthday, the Houston TranStar Transportation Management and Emergency Operations Center (TranStar) has saved Harris County area motorists more than $5.4 billion in reduced traveler delay and fuel costs since 1997, when benefits were first assessed. The multi-agency effort uses […]
TTI’s Utility Engineering Program Helps Sponsors Avoid Unseen Expenses, Delays
Transportation project design and construction, even under the best of circumstances, are challenging for all concerned — the agency paying for the project, the engineer designing it, the contractor building it, and the travelers waiting on its completion. Transportation agencies face numerous obstacles regarding utilities, including a lack of accurate information about utility facilities that […]
TTI, ARTBA Celebrate 20 Years of the Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
It’s now considered the world’s largest and most extensive resource for roadway work zone safety. But 20 years ago, the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse was just an idea — to have one location where practitioners could find information about how to improve work zone safety. It was an idea born from necessity because […]
Innovative Data Applications Improve Border Planning, Air Quality
Using GPS Devices to Get Better Emissions Estimates The World Trade Bridge crossing in the Laredo–Nuevo Laredo region is the most used Texas-Mexico port of entry (POE). The crossing’s popularity helps explain the location’s relatively high vehicle emissions, caused by high truck volumes and slow speeds as traffic makes its way across the bridge. A […]
Seeing the Road in a Different LIDAR
When we think of a roadway, most of us think of the asphalt or concrete we’re riding on, not the ditches lining the roads or how efficiently water flows off those roads following a rainstorm. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has come up with an automated way of determining whether those ditches are doing […]
TTI Hosts TxDOT for 91st Annual Transportation Short Course
With a near record number of attendees, the 91st Annual Transportation Short Course — the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT’s) annual employee gathering — was a time of reflection and celebration for a historic and extremely challenging year. TxDOT is 100 years old this year, and dozens of TxDOT employees who went above and beyond […]
TTI Researchers Use Data Visualization to Create Interactive Congestion Strategy Website
In 2016, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Associate Transportation Researcher Phil Lasley came to James Moughon, TTI software applications developer, looking for a way to make the congestion-mitigation strategy website, developed for TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, more user friendly. At the time, the website listed more than 100 congestion-mitigation strategies using static graphics, but […]
TTI News
TTI Graduate Student Wins Fellowship Award TTI Associate Research Scientist Bryan Wilson was recently awarded the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. (ASNT) Fellowship Award for proposed research titled Ground Penetrating Radar as a Quality Assurance Tool in Hot-Mix Asphalt Road Construction. The ASNT Fellowship Award helps graduate students defray costs of post-graduate research in […]
Upcoming Conference
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The Last Stop with Greg Winfree: At TTI, Research Excellence Is Personal
As I get older, I find myself celebrating milestones more often. Some of those, like my wedding anniversary, are certainly welcome, though at my age, I’d just as soon forget about birthdays. Other folks tend to remind me of those anyway, and that’s okay. Celebrating a birthday certainly beats the alternative, right? We close out […]