Texas A&M regents on Friday named the newest facility in the university’s research park for a former student and state highway department head who initiated a transportation research program that has spanned more than half a century. When Texas Transportation Institute personnel move into the new building this fall, it will bear the name of […]
Regents name new transportation research building for former A&M chancellor, highway agency director
TTI to Host 1999 Summer Transportation Institute
The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) is among 30 institutions nationwide selected to host a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) 1999 Summer Transportation Institute. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater announced the institute sites last week. The institute will allow TTI, in partnership with Texas A&M University, Texas Southern University in Houston and Paul Quinn College […]
Truck Safety on Dateline NBC
The Texas Transportation Institute provided the 18-wheeler crash test footage in the January 27th broadcast of Dateline. The broadcast emphasized the need for more regulation and inspection in the trucking industry. 18-wheelers are kings of the road on most Interstate Highways. They haul the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the furniture we buy, […]
Little named first TTI Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Dallas Little, the Herbert D. Kelleher Professor of Transportation, has been named the first Senior Research Fellow of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI). The new position was created in response to an employee Continuous Improvement Process Team recommendation to recognize the contributions and increasing levels of responsibility of TTI’s most senior research staff, as […]
Most Adults Buckling Up, Child Restraint Use Still Lagging
Safety belt use by Texas adults has increased steadily over the past decade, but usage rates for children lag far behind, according to recent studies. A mandatory seat belt law was passed in 1985 requiring drivers and front seat passengers to use safety belts. Since that time, seat belt use has jumped from 14 to […]
Deputy Transportation Secretary plans Texas announcement of million-dollar effort to reduce work zone deaths, injuries
Mortimer Downey, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation, will visit the Texas Transportation Institute on Tuesday, March 24 to announce the establishment of a $1 million program designed to reduce the number of crash-related deaths and injuries in highway work zones. Each year across the United States, more than 20,000 traffic accidents occur in highway […]
Texas House of Representatives Committee on Transportation scheduled to hold next public hearing in College Station
The Texas House Committee on Transportation will hold its next public hearing on Wednesday March 25 at 1:30 p.m. at the Bush Presidential Library Conference Center in College Station. Committee members will focus specifically on two major subjects currently affecting transportation in Texas: issues related to speed limits and highway safety, and the effects of […]
TTI research effort to earn award, recognition from Vice President Gore
Representatives of the Texas Transportation Institute and the U.S. Department of Transportation next week will receive Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Review Hammer Award in recognition of a research effort designed to revolutionize law enforcement. The Hammer Award is the vice president’s program to recognize significant contributions in support of President Clinton’s National Performance […]
TTI research effort earns spot in Smithsonian
A Texas Transportation Institute research effort will soon become part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology. ALERT — Advanced Law Enforcement and Response Technology— has been under development at TTI since 1995, and is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The project is aimed at integrating the various functions of […]