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 […]
Volume 52, Number 3
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 […]