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Video Summary Report — Capacity and Cost Benefits of Super 2 Corridors

January 12th, 2021

Capacity and Cost Benefits of Super 2 Corridors. Video Summary Report. Sharing Innovation. TxDOT and TTI logos.

The growing popularity of Super 2 corridors in Texas has prompted TxDOT and Texas A&M Transportation Institute researchers to develop and update a tool that helps pinpoint locations where new projects should be considered. The TTI video production group worked with the research team to produce a video summary report on the impact of the […]

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Center for International Intelligent Transportation Publishes New Reports on Border Research

January 11th, 2021

Vehicles queued at a border crossing in El Paso, Texas.

Researcher’s with TTI’s Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research recently published two reports based on center-sponsored research. Evaluation of Ambulance Cross-border Operations | Cross-border travelers across the U.S.–Mexico border often experience delays due to international security and customs concerns. However, medical emergencies require expedited travel through land ports of entry to save patients. Researchers examined […]

Center for International Intelligent Transportation Publishes New Reports on Border Research — Read more…

Will Our Transportation System Support a Post-COVID World?

January 6th, 2021

After the pandemic, where will we be? What We're Thinking by Ginger Goodin. Image: Freight being loaded on a truck.

The coronavirus changed our working and shopping patterns, and the changes could be permanent. By Ginger Goodin As the COVID-19 vaccines are distributed, we’re one step closer to addressing how we can avoid falling victim to one of the most destructive diseases ever. What’s gotten less attention are the questions of how and where we […]

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Winfree Column in December 2020 Traffic Technology International Now Available

December 15th, 2020

Illustration of Greg Winfree with a motorcycle.

In the December 2020 edition of Traffic Technology International, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director Greg Winfree outlines the transportation research challenges we face in a post-COVID world. Winfree’s Mode Warrior editorial invites the public to review and comment upon a white paper he and TTI Assistant Director Joe Zietsman authored that “outlines nine factors to […]

Winfree Column in December 2020 Traffic Technology International Now Available — Read more…

TTI’s Bullard and Chrysler Named Regents Fellows for Transportation Research, Service

December 14th, 2020

Texas A&M University logo

Continuing a commitment to excellence in research and service, Senior Research Engineer Lance Bullard and Senior Research Scientist Sue Chrysler have been named Regents Fellows by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Employees of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Bullard and Chrysler have dedicated their lives to improving the safety of motorists […]

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Turnbull, Zmud Published in TR News

December 9th, 2020

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Texas A&M Transportation Institute Executive Associate Director Katie Turnbull and Senior Research Scientist Johanna Zmud were published in the September/October issue of TR News, TRB’s bimonthly magazine. Turnbull’s article, “That Was Then, This Is Now, Tomorrow Will Be Amazing!,” celebrates the TRB Centennial by taking a look at what life was like in 1920, where […]

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TTI Researchers Publish Paper on Speed-Crash Relationship for City Streets

December 7th, 2020

Traffic on a city roadway

Estimating the speed-crash relationship has long been a focus area of interest in roadway safety analysis. Because of many confounding factors that may influence both speeds and crashes, the relationship cannot be appropriately established without considering the corresponding roadway characteristics and accounting for their effects on speeds and crashes. Texas A&M Transportation Institute researchers Eun […]

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America Without Railroads? Yes, That Almost Happened.

November 30th, 2020

What We're Thinking. Commentary: Rail, shipping, and commerce, saved. By Allan Rutter.

By Allan Rutter You could be forgiven for not knowing who Harley Staggers was. After all, the name sounds like a character in an Elmore Leonard novel. But the next time you stop at a gas station or drive on streets and highways to get there, just know that this West Virginian made those activities […]

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Texas DIR Recognizes TTI’s Smart Intersection Project for Benefitting Texans

November 17th, 2020

Testing of technology that provides 'turning bus' alerts at TTI's Smart Intersection.

The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) highlighted a Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) advanced technology project as an accomplishment in its Biennial Performance Report (BPR) published Nov. 15. DIR’s stated mission is to “serve Texas government by leading the state’s technology strategy, protecting state technology infrastructure, and offering innovative and cost-effective solutions for all […]

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ITE’s Texas District Delivers First Virtual Conference with TTI Support

November 12th, 2020

TexITE (logo)

The Texas District of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (TexITE) worked over the summer to evaluate and choose a platform to deliver its first virtual conference. TTI’s involvement included speakers, moderators, and behind-the-scenes logistics: Jason Crawford moderated and Robert Wunderlich spoke at the plenary session, “COVID-19: What Happened?”; Srinivas Geedipally spoke during the “Vision Zero […]

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Implementation of Bicycle and Pedestrian Monitoring Equipment

November 11th, 2020

Sharing Innovation: Implementation of Bicycle and Pedestrian Monitoring Equipment. TxDOT Project 5-6927-01

As the number of bicyclists on our roadways grows, so does the desire to accurately count how many there are and where they are traveling. TxDOT teamed up with Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers to evaluate the best bicycle monitoring equipment and to produce a user-friendly database for public use. The TTI video production […]

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CARTEEH Researchers Publish First Book on Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Human Health

November 11th, 2020

Find out more! Traffiuc-Related Air Pollution Book. TTI and CARTEEH logos.

Researchers from TTI’s Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy and Health (CARTEEH) published the 1st edition of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Aug. 19, 2020. Associate Research Scientist Haneen Khreis led the editing of the book, working with CARTEEH Director Joe Zietsman and Associate Research Engineer Tara Ramani along with Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, a research […]

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Lomax to Participate in Mobility and the Pandemic Webinar

November 5th, 2020

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Research Fellow Tim Lomax will participate in a roundtable discussion webinar on November 10, to discuss research on mobility during the pandemic. This co-organized webinar-series, Mobility & the pandemic – studies from Germany and the U.S., is the first webinar session between TTI and The German Aerospace Center — Deutsches […]

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TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat® Launches New App to Encourage Safety in Young Drivers

November 3rd, 2020

Teens in the Driver Seat app

Car crashes account for nearly one-third of all teen deaths in America each year. As a part of National Teen Driver Safety Week Oct. 18–24, teen advocates of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) program launched its You in the Driver Seat (YDS) smartphone app, aimed at encouraging safer […]

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FCC Radio Spectrum Reallocation Could Impair Vehicle Safety

November 2nd, 2020

What We're Thinking by Gretchen Stoeltje and Greg Winfree. FCC Radio Spectrum Reallocation Could Impair Vehicle Safety

By Gretchen Stoeltje and Greg Winfree If you’ve been designing or building roads in recent years, you are probably familiar with the anticipated safety benefits of connected vehicles and the technology that will be required to make them work. You probably know that in order for connected vehicles to communicate with one another and with […]

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Despite Challenges, 2020 Transportation Short Course Sees Record Attendance

October 29th, 2020

Transportation Short Course logo on screen during virtual conference.

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the Ninety Fourth Annual Transportation Short Course Oct. 12–14, 2020. Traditionally held in person at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, travel restrictions and concerns for personal health in the era of COVID-19 forced planners to hold the event online for the first time in its near-century […]

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Data From High-Tech Cars Can Help Pinpoint Road Safety Improvements and Prevent Crashes

October 28th, 2020

What We're Thinking. Data from high-tech cars can help pinpoint road safety improvements and prevent crashes. By Eva Shipp and Shawn Turner.

Using the data produced by connected cars can improve safety for all of us. By Eva Shipp and Shawn Turner A growing number of higher-tech cars and trucks on the road are talking to us. And if we pay attention to what they’re saying, we could prevent a lot of crashes and save a lot […]

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TTI’s Soheil Sohrabi Published AVs and Public Health Research Paper

October 27th, 2020

Picture of Soheil Sohrabi

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Graduate Research Assistant Soheil Sohrabi recently published the research paper “Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Public Health: A Conceptual Model and Policy Recommendations” in Sustainable Cites and Society. The paper’s authors also include Haneen Khreis, associate research scientist in TTI’s Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health […]

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TTI Proving Grounds Crew Nearly Beats Crash Test Record, Despite COVID-19

October 26th, 2020

A large truck crashing into a bollard during a test at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

Despite a worldwide pandemic that shut down businesses and kept most workers at home through the spring and much of the summer, 37 Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers, technicians and support staff in the Roadside Safety and Physical Security Division have been working nonstop conducting a near-record number of crash tests for clients across […]

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Newcomb Presents at Virtual Town Hall for Texas Representative Terry Wilson

October 22nd, 2020

Photo of David Newcomb

TTI Senior Research Engineer and Materials & Pavements Division Head David Newcomb delivered a presentation at Texas Representative Terry Wilson’s Virtual Town Hall on September 30, 2020. The discussion centered on the impact of increased truck traffic due to the Aggregate Production Operations Industry in surrounding communities. “Representative Wilson’s office reached out to TTI prior […]

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