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TTI’s Hueste Receives Joe W. Kelly Award from American Concrete Institute

January 12th, 2022

Mary Beth Hueste

Dr. Mary Beth D. Hueste was recently honored by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) for her contributions to educating the next generation of engineers and her leadership in advancing the concrete industry through research and committee activities. Hueste, professor and associate department head for undergraduate programs in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering […]

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Winfree Appointed to National GPS Advisory Board

January 5th, 2022

Photo of Greg Winfree

TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree was recently appointed to serve a two-year term on the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board by the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The advisory board provides advice on United States space-based PNT policy, planning, program management and funding profiles to a national […]

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TTI’s Shawn Turner Receives 2020–2021 Regents Fellow Service Award

January 4th, 2022

Shawn Turner portrait.

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents named Shawn Turner, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) senior research engineer, a 2020–2021 recipient of the Regents Fellow Service Award. Turner is nationally recognized for his expertise in mobility analysis, multimodal travel data collection and analysis, and performance measures and monitoring. Turner has spent more than 30 […]

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Texas Traffic Gets a Pandemic Pause

December 21st, 2021

Traffic congestion receded in spring 2020, then bounced back in fall Roadway bottlenecks were back to near pre-pandemic levels in Texas in late 2020 after overall hours wasted in traffic dropped by more than half in the early part of that year, according to a new traffic study performed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute […]

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Supply Chain Woes Are the Grinch’s Best Helpers This Year

December 20th, 2021

Supply chain woes are the Grinch’s best helpers this year By Jolanda Prozzi and Juan Villa. Image: collage of transportation modes.

By Jolanda Prozzi and Juan Villa If this year’s holiday shopping season has you feeling a bit more anxious than most in recent memory, you may find consolation in knowing that your angst is likely not a product of your imagination. You can blame the same supply chain woes that have plagued us since the […]

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TTI Signs Memorandum of Agreement with Texas A&M International University

December 16th, 2021

TTI Signs Memorandum of Agreement with Texas A&M International University

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently signed a five-year memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). The MOA was signed by TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree and TAMIU President Pablo Arenaz, facilitating cooperation between TTI and TAMIU’s A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business’ Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development […]

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Crowdsourced Data Enhance Border Trip Insights in a Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research Report

December 14th, 2021

Photograph taken at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing showing passenger vehicle, truck, and pedestrian traffic.

Getting accurate, continuous travel information can be difficult for binational metropolitan regions like El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. As a result, international cross-border trips often go underrepresented in travel demand and behavior analysis studies. This can be caused by a number of factors, including time and budget limits and boundary issues associated with international jurisdictions. […]

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TTI Engages Young Women’s Leadership Academy to Explore Careers

November 23rd, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) conducted Nov. 11 career exploration sessions for 28 students in the San Antonio Independent School District’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy. Volunteers from Pape-Dawson Engineers together with consultants from the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) International Transportation YOU Program organized the sessions. Students watched a live crash test of roadside safety […]

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Kirk Watson Inducted into Texas Transportation Hall of Honor

November 19th, 2021

Left to right: Ray Wilkerson, Ashton Cumberbatch, Deirdre Delisi, Kirk Watson, John Sharp and Greg Winfree.

Kirk P. Watson, a champion of transportation investment for Austin and the entire state of Texas for more than two decades, was inducted into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor at a luncheon and ceremony held at the Marriott Downtown in Austin Nov. 4. Watson, described at the event as a statesman and transformational servant […]

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TTI Hosts First In-Person Advisory Council Meeting Since 2019

November 18th, 2021

Group photo of the TTI Advisory Council from its November 2021 meeting.

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Advisory Council held its annual meeting in Westlake, Texas, Nov. 1–2, at The Barn at Circle T Ranch. This was the first time the council met in person since 2019. The meeting began with a welcome by TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree and former Texas State Senator and council […]

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CARTEEH UTC Develops Transferable Methods for Transportation and Energy Grid Electrification Modeling and Planning

November 16th, 2021

Illustration of the convergence of transportation and the electric grid. The electric grid is built and placed so as to support the transportation charging network for electric vehicles of all types.

Evaluating the growing demand for electric vehicle charging stations requires accurate, region-specific assessment and planning – tasks that are the focus of software developed by the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CARTEEH). Led by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), CARTEEH is a federally funded University Transportation Center (UTC). CARTEEH […]

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Storm Resiliency a Pay-Now Or Pay-Later Proposition

November 9th, 2021

What We're Thinking by Jolanda Prozzi. Storm resiliency a pay-now or pay-later proposition.

By Jolanda Prozzi The formula for surviving hurricanes and other weather disasters is part preparation and part recovery. The more effort and resources we invest in the former, the more success we can expect with the latter. That’s especially important to consider now that the nation’s infrastructure needs become more urgent. Extreme weather events disrupt […]

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TTI’s Beverly Kuhn Co-Leads a STEM Workshop at the 2021 AISES National Conference

October 28th, 2021

High School students participate in an interactive activity where they walk through a dummy intersection marked out on the floor.

With support from the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE’s) Arizona Section and Mountain District, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Beverly Kuhn co-led an activity during The Boeing Company’s Sept. 22 STEM Day event as part of the 2021 American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference at the Phoenix Convention Center. […]

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Working Together: 2021 Virtual Texas Pedestrian Forum Takes a Multidisciplinary Approach to Address Pedestrian Safety

October 25th, 2021

Working Together: 2021 Virtual Texas Pedestrian Forum Takes a Multidisciplinary Approach to Address Pedestrian Safety.

For the second year in a row, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the virtual Texas Pedestrian Safety Forum Aug. 12, 2021. Supported by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety (CTS), the forum helped more than 430 people learn more about how we can make roadways safer for […]

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95th Annual Transportation Short Course Highlights Research Excellence, Need for Continued Diligence

October 15th, 2021

Greg Winfree speaking from the podium during the 2021 Transportation Short Course.

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the first-ever hybrid Transportation Short Course Oct. 11–13 both virtually and on the Texas A&M University campus. This year’s event marked 95 years of commitment by TTI and TxDOT to present the latest research innovations from the department’s research program to practitioners around the Lone Star State and […]

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Tooley Featured in Transportation Builder Magazine

October 13th, 2021

Tooley Featured in Transportation Builder Magazine.

TTI Senior Research Engineer and Director of External Initiatives Melissa Tooley published a column in the September/October issue of Transportation Builder magazine, published by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). In the column, she recounts her personal experiences in entering the civil engineering field as one of just a few women seeking engineering […]

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TTI, TxDOT Win National Safety Award

October 8th, 2021

“Safer by Design” Tool Aims to Save Lives on Texas Rural Roadways The Roadway Safety Foundation has honored the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with a 2021 National Roadway Safety Award. The foundation lauded the TxDOT-sponsored, TTI-developed “Safer by Design” tool, a user-friendly innovation roadway designers can use […]

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TTI, Texas A&M Offer Online Master of Engineering Program for Transportation Professionals

September 21st, 2021

Collage of transportation modes

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering now offer an online Master of Engineering degree in Engineering for Transportation Professionals. Designed specifically for transportation professionals currently in management or who desire to achieve a management position, the degree provides students with the background and skills to become better managers […]

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TTI’s Fitzpatrick Co-Authors NCHRP User Guide on Setting Posted Speed Limits

September 13th, 2021

Photo of Kay Fitzpatrick

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Kay Fitzpatrick led the team that wrote the recently published National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 966, Posted Speed Limit Setting Procedure and Tool: User Guide. Fitzpatrick’s co-authors include Subasish Das, associate research scientist, and Michael P. Pratt, assistant research engineer, both in TTI’s Roadway […]

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Does Your Teen Text While Driving? Now There’s An App For That.

September 1st, 2021

What We're Thinking by Russell Henk. Does your teen text while driving? Now there’s an app for that.. Photo of driver using a cell phone.

By Russell Henk What we’re learning about the battle against the coronavirus could go a long way in helping us thwart vehicle crashes. It’s a simple lesson: Prevention – in the form of personal responsibility – can help us contain the public health crisis of COVID-19, and it can do the same with the epidemic […]

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