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By Johanna Zmud Self-driving cars, along with other recent innovations like ride-hailing and electric scooters, are pushing the idea of disruptive mobility into our daily experience. But as business models go, disruption doesn’t always work out so well. Just ask the folks at scooter-sharing company Bird. In December, the company left an early Holiday surprise […]

By Allan Rutter In the last week of November 2018, daily exports of U.S. oil, gasoline and other products exceeded imports for the first time in nearly 70 years, thanks in large part to energy-rich Texas. But despite appearances, the boom of the state’s oil and gas production will not halt the flow of oil […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and FPInnovations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on January 13, at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The MOU will support the establishment of a framework for information exchange and collaboration to advance research opportunities. The MOU was signed by Greg Winfree, TTI Agency Director, and […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Scientist David R. Ellis was honored with a Regents Fellow Service Award by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Jan. 16. The board of regents established this award in 1998 to recognize employees who have made exemplary contributions to their university or agency and to the […]

By Gregory Winfree and Swaminathan Gopalswamy Self-driving cars will change life as we know it; no question there. But they’re only a start — just as personal computers were. Think back to when George H.W. Bush was in the White House and gasoline cost about a dollar a gallon. Office and home desktop computers were […]

By Katherine F. Turnbull For all of the contrasts that distinguish urban and rural Texans, one thing that unites us all is the need for reliable transportation. Exactly what that reliable transportation looks like depends on where we choose to live. Regardless of that choice, certain interests and challenges are commonly shared. Safety and mobility are at […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s researchers are sharing their expertise at the Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting, which will be held January 13–17, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. The PDF below contains a schedule of presentations at the upcoming TRB meetings. Schedule of TTI/TAMUS Members Presentations

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Research Engineer Jason Crawford has been appointed chair of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Coordinating Council. Crawford’s two-year appointment began Jan. 1. The ITE Coordinating Council provides leadership and coordination across the technical and employer councils’ activities. The ITE councils “enhance professional collaboration and advance the technical body of […]

Tina Geiselbrecht, research scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), has become one of the first people in the United States to become a Certified Public Participation Professional (CP3) as designated by the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). IAP2 is a professional association “whose members seek to promote and improve the practice of […]

Transportation is a major source of anthropogenic air pollution. Transportation-related air pollution has been linked to premature mortality and a wide spectrum of global diseases including asthma, lung cancer, stroke, autism, dementia, diabetes and obesity. Reducing transportation energy consumption and emissions can improve air quality and reduce adverse impacts on public health and health equity. […]

Dr. William R. Stockton, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) executive associate agency director, has been promoted to agency deputy director. TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree announced the promotion agency-wide on November 14, 2018. With more than three decades of service with TTI in various leadership positions, and more than 44 years in public service, Stockton […]

By William R. Stockton Your car’s next tank of gas is on its way to you. You can be assured of that, even though the journey it takes to get there is a sometimes arduous one. That journey could begin at one of hundreds of active oil wells in Texas, located predominantly in remote rural […]

Local and statewide policy makers from around Texas gathered on November 13 to discuss a wide range of challenges facing rural sectors of the state, and transportation issues were high on the agenda. “The Future of Rural Texas” symposium on the Texas A&M University campus was hosted by The Texas Tribune and co-sponsored by the […]

By Lisa Minjares-Kyle Car crashes remain the No. 1 cause of death and injury for young people. For most of the past decade, teen crash deaths in the U.S. were on a decline before the trend reversed in 2013. Over those 10 years, we surveyed 109,266 teens at 281 schools in 11 states, to draw […]

dexFreight Inc. and Texas A&M Transportation Institute will run the project An innovative application of blockchain technology will be put to the test at the Port Community of Veracruz, Mexico by a team of researchers from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and dexFreight, a Florida-based blockchain and logistics startup. The project will help define […]

A week-long visit to Namibia by the leaders of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) in October continued a longtime working relationship with that country but lays the groundwork for relationships with numerous other African countries. Agency Director Greg Winfree, Assistant Director Joe Zietsman and Associate Research Engineer Tara Ramani met with the country’s Roads […]