Traditionally, transportation research has focused its agenda on building the system to improve access to markets and, more recently, meet the demands of a world economy. With the highway system mostly in place, transportation research is now focusing on enhancing system performance and minimizing detrimental side effects. Some of those side effects have reached the […]
Volume 52, Number 1
TTI Researchers Investigate Reasons Impaired Drivers Choose Transportation Network Companies to Provide Safe Rides
For years transportation safety officials have encouraged impaired drivers to find a sober ride home — be it designating a driver, catching a cab or riding the bus. Another option became available in 2009, when transportation network companies (TNCs) first appeared. TNCs provide on-demand taxi-like transportation via self-dispatched independent drivers. Riders summon drivers through a […]
New Rapid-Flashing Beacon Shows Great Promise in Improving Pedestrian Safety
For many pedestrians, crossing a busy multilane roadway without the protection of a traffic signal is a nerve-wracking, sometimes dangerous proposition, even when using a marked crosswalk. As a means of improving safety at uncontrolled pedestrian crosswalks, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has sponsored research on a variety of traffic control devices intended to increase […]
Building Sustainability into Our Transportation System
Vital to economic growth, transportation can also be a detriment to human health and the natural environment. That’s among the reasons why the concept of sustainable transportation is emerging in countries around the globe, among most state departments of transportation in the United States and, in increasing cases, as part of transportation engineering curricula. “Sustainable […]
Walk, Don’t Drive: Active Transportation May Provide More than Health Benefits
In the United States, more people live in suburbs than in central cities, and suburbanites drive automobiles or rely on mass transit to get to and from work. The construction of highways with multiple lanes and faster speed limits has been a common response to meet the growth of sprawling cities and the widespread ownership […]
The Freight Shuttle System: Clearing the Air on Sustainable Freight Movement
Doing more with less: that’s the mantra of transportation agencies everywhere these days. We need to achieve greater mobility on our roadways, but we can’t afford to build our way out of congestion. We need to clean the air around urban areas to improve public health, but policies enforcing clean air are difficult to pass […]
Visualizing a Safer Transportation Community
From automated cruise control to Google self-driving cars to trucks platooning, the world of connected, automated and autonomous vehicles is rapidly evolving. A research project sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is examining connected and automated vehicle applications to improve transit, bicyclist and pedestrian […]
Encouraging Safe Interactions Between Teens and Large Trucks
In the past three years, commercial motor vehicle crashes have increased 29 percent in the Permian Basin and 55 percent in the Eagle Ford Shale regions of Texas. Between 2011 and 2012, such crashes involved an estimated 2,006 drivers under the age of 26. In response to the increase in crashes concurrent with the oil […]
Aging Drivers Expected to Impact Transportation Landscape
TTI, TAMHSC Lead Global Research Effort It’s no secret that we are living longer, healthier lives. But, does that also mean we are driving longer and traveling more? If so, it could have a dramatic impact on congestion, safety, public transportation and numerous other transportation issues — not only in the United States, but around […]
TTI-Led Research Seeks to Expedite Emergency Care for Patients Crossing the Border
Led by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), a team of public agencies including the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso) Department of Neurology, the El Paso Fire Department (EPFD) and Mexican ambulance companies are conducting research to speed up cross-border transportation for heart attack and stroke victims. Mortality rates […]
Former TTI Agency Director Named Texas A&M Distinguished Alumnus
Charley V. Wootan, former Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) agency director, was named a distinguished alumnus of Texas A&M University March 11 by the Association of Former Students. Wootan joined TTI in 1956 as an associate research economist and served as the Institute’s associate director (1966–1976) and director (1976–1993). Under his leadership, TTI grew to […]
TTI at TRB
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) made an impressive showing during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 94th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10–14. The meeting hosted 12,000 researchers, policy makers, practitioners and transportation professionals from around the world. Turnbull Appointed to TRB’s Executive Committee TTI Executive Associate Director Katie Turnbull was appointed to the […]
TTI News
TTI’s Katie Turnbull Named Texas A&M Regents Fellow TTI Executive Associate Director Katie Turnbull was honored with the Regents Fellow Service Award during The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Reception and Dinner Feb. 10. The Regents Fellow Service Award Program began in 1998 to recognize research professionals whose exemplary professional service has contributed […]
TTI Publications
Research Videos Access the research topics listed below via the URLs shown. Active Transportation May Provide More than Health Benefits: https://vimeo.com/160007569 TTI’s Environmental and Emissions Research Facility: https://vimeo.com/156735964 TTI Selects Strategy Lead for CV/AV Transportation Research: https://vimeo.com/147641712 TTI Enhances Its Proving Ground with New Research Facilities: https://vimeo.com/131557369 TTI’s Air Quality Program: https://vimeo.com/123978706 Technical Reports Considerations […]