Volume 48, Number 3 (2012) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: Partnering for Texas Thin Is In: Thin Asphalt Overlay Helps Stretch Budgets Further Testing Is Key to Roadside Safety New Approaches to Traditional Research: Collecting and Analyzing Travel Data for TxDOT The I-35 Expansion Project Safety Experts Focus on Motorcycle Fatalities Clear Approach: TTI […]
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Video Summary Reports Video summary reports are available on the Texas Department of Transportation’s Research and Technology Implementation Office’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/bestpracticesvsrs/. Development of Very Thin Overlay Systems, 0-5598. Evaluation of Modern Traffic Control Devices to Improve Safety at Rural Intersections, 0-6462. FDR (Full-Depth-Reclamation) Performance Based Design, Construction, and Quality Control, 0-6271. Performance Evaluation […]
Vice Chancellor Spends the Day at TTI
Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor for engineering at The Texas A&M University System, director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering, made her first official visit to TTI on March 22. She was accompanied by Dr. Dennis O’Neal, associate dean for research and deputy director […]
Institute News
Updated Geometric Design Research Report Released The Transportation Research Board recently published NCHRP Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. The report, written by TTI Associate Research Engineer Marcus Brewer, reviews and summarizes roadway geometric design literature completed and published from 2001 through […]
TTI and the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
The partnership between TTI and Texas A&M’s Zachry Department of Civil Engineering is a natural — researchers, faculty and students working together to solve real-world problems important to the state and nation.
A New Era: The SWUTC Adds Two New Schools to Consortium
SWUTC is poised to continue its legacy by renewing its grant and adding two schools to its consortium.
Teaming, Teaching, Transforming Minds: TTI and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
The TTI/LAUP partnership enables a multidisciplinary approach to solving multifaceted problems.
On Deck: TTI’s Young Professionals Step Up
TTI has made a tradition out of seeking promising young professionals to join the research ranks, ensuring a strong future for the Institute.
TTI and the George Bush School of Government and Public Service
Transportation is inextricably tied to public policy and politics. It’s only natural then that the George Bush School of Government and Public Service and TTI would become partners soon after the school’s opening.
Agricultural Economics and TTI
One of the most robust relationships TTI enjoys with Texas A&M is through its partnership with the Dept. of Agricultural Economics. There is an obvious transportation connection but they are more closely tied than that.
The Future Requires Original Thinking
When I became director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in 2006, I inherited a number of initiatives from our Director Emeritus Herb Richardson. Herb built on the accomplishments of previous directors and left TTI in excellent shape, especially in terms of our relationships with the academic sector. Before becoming agency director, Herb served as […]
The Best & Brightest: Learning in TTI’s Living Laboratory
Volume 48, Number 2 (2012) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: The Future Requires Original Thinking Agricultural Economics and TTI TTI and the George Bush School of Government and Public Service On Deck: TTI’s Young Professionals Step Up Teaming, Teaching, Transforming Minds: TTI and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning A New Era: […]
TTI Publications
Video Summary Reports Video summary reports are available on the Texas Department of Transportation’s Research and Technology Implementation Office’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/bestpracticesvsrs/. Automated Flagger Assistance Devices (AFADs), 0-6407. Bioretention Techniques for Storm Water Quality, 0-5949. Development of Very Thin Overlay Systems, 0-5598. Evaluation of Modern Traffic Control Devices to Improve Safety at Rural Intersections, […]
A&M System Chancellor Visits TTI
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp visited TTI Jan. 12, telling Institute officials, “TTI is the shining star of the A&M System, so you don’t have to win me over; you just have to educate me.” Sharp, who became the 14th chancellor of the A&M System on Aug. 15, spent the afternoon learning firsthand […]
Making the Grade: Tomorrow’s Transportation System
Volume 48, Number 1 (2012) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: Making the Most of a Fixer-Upper TTI at TRB Alcohol Studies Center Transfers to TTI Looking Out for Pedestrians Energy Developments and Our Roadways: Impacts and Strategies A Blueprint for Sustainability Freight Shuttle System Promises the Next Historic Milestone in Freight Movement Fighting Congestion […]
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Center for Railway Research Established at TTI With a focus on improving railway safety and enhancing the performance of the nation’s rail system, the Texas A&M Board of Regents has approved establishing the Center for Railway Research (CRR) as a part of TTI. “Having this center is a very positive step in our plans to […]
High Crash Rates Among Hispanics and Military Prompt Study
TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety is beginning to examine the reasons why two distinct population groups — Hispanics and U.S. military personnel — are experiencing above-average crash rates.
Looking into the Retroreflective Glass
As the paint–glass bead mixture used in roadway markings for light retroreflection is applied to the road, degrades over time, and is reapplied, what effect does it have on the people handling it and on our environment?
Fighting Congestion with Technology: The New Frontier
A technological revolution is underway that has transportation leaders, government officials and even attorneys abuzz with questions and hope about what it could mean in solving a growing and costly concern — congestion.
Freight Shuttle System Promises the Next Historic Milestone in Freight Movement
Picture a system in which transporters powered by electric motors carry trailers from trucks and containers from ships on an elevated track above existing highway right-of-way, safely separated from passenger traffic.