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First Autonomous Shuttle Deployed at Texas A&M The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is leading a technology demonstration of the Navya Autonom Shuttle, an autonomous, self-driving, 11-passenger electric vehicle developed for use in public transportation service. TTI’s partners in the project are Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Transportation Services and the shuttle’s maker, Navya. Texas […]

Recycled pavement saves money and the environment. By Amy Epps Martin and Edith Arambula Ask just about anybody to name the most recycled material in America, and you’re likely to get some predictable responses: Aluminum cans. Plastic bottles. Glass bottles. Paper. Each guess is logical. And each one is wrong. That’s because 99% of reclaimed […]

Melissa Tooley, director of external initiatives at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, joined three other top female transportation industry executives on September 23, at the American Road and Transportation Builders Association 2019 National Convention in Savannah, Ga., to discuss how to build a diverse and successful work environment. The leaders, representing ARTBA Foundation’s “Glass Hammer” […]

This week, Sept. 15-21, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is sponsoring Child Passenger Safety Week. Whenever you’re on the road, make sure your kids are secured in the correct car seat for their weight, age, and size, and that the seat itself is properly installed and secured in your vehicle. | Read More

TTI Graduate Research Assistant Ahmadreza Mahmoudzadeh is the recipient of a $6,500 scholarship from the American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF). The APTF Gary Thomas Ambassadorial Scholarship will be awarded during the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA’s) TRANSform Conference held Oct. 13–16, 2019, in New York. This scholarship is awarded to college students or transit professionals […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Assistant Research Scientist Marcie Perez won first place in the data visualization category for “investigating crash data through data visualization” at the 2019 Traffic Records Forum. The forum (Aug. 4–7, 2019) was hosted by the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP). Perez led the Aug. 6 session Data Visualization: […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Research Fellow Tim Lomax will be testifying before the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at 10:00 AM Eastern (9:00 AM Central) on September 11. The subject of the hearing is congestion and potential solutions, and Lomax will be discussing the newly released Urban Mobility […]

An estimated 667 premature deaths each year could be prevented in Barcelona if the proposed “Superblocks” project were fully implanted, according to estimates from an international research team that included researcher Haneen Khreis from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). This result would be achieved mainly as a result of decreased air pollution (NO2), but […]

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at The Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. The multilevel, 178,380-square-foot facility supports research programs and administrative offices for TTI’s Bryan-College Station staff, previously housed in four different facilities. The TTI headquarters building at RELLIS marks the […]

By Katie Womack Texans, by and large, think texting and driving is bad and that it shouldn’t be allowed. But for most, those views haven’t changed their own habits behind the wheel. Texas legislators passed a law in 2017 that bans texting while driving, but allows drivers to use their phones for things like directions […]

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) a grant to evaluate safety and health concerns related to implementing connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies. CAVs hold the promise to revolutionize our transportation system through improved mobility and safety while also reducing congestion and crash-related deaths and injuries. However […]

If more Americans are working, a new report confirms, more of us are also tied up in traffic. The picture is painted clearly in the 2019 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Along with illustrating the problem, researchers also stress the same straightforward solutions they’ve long advocated: more of everything […]

By Johanna Zmud Cities across the U.S. have been riding the e-scooter craze for more than a year, so it’s a good time to ask some emerging questions in the midst of urban disturbance. As we do, let’s remember that the first automobiles were also disruptive when they hit busy streets already bedeviled by the […]

TTI Center for Transportation Safety Director Robert Wunderlich received the prestigious Burton W. Marsh Award at the 2019 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Annual International Meeting in Austin, Texas, which occurred July 21–24. The Marsh Award is presented to an ITE member who has made outstanding contributions to the advancement of ITE over the years. In his […]

Johanna Zmud is a Senior Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), where she focuses on the social influence of technology. She heads up TTI’s multimodal planning division, where her research focuses on changing technology, technological development and public policymaking. Recently she was featured on The Mobility Podcast where she discussed the social […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) staff recently wrote an article for the August edition of ITE Journal. The story “Smart Communities: From Vision to Reality” is about how “future building” transformation is happening all around us from the personal, to the corporate, to the community, to the national, and to global levels. The authors are […]

Up to 11 percent of new childhood asthma cases could be prevented each year if European countries complied with current World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines, according to a study of 18 European countries co-led by Texas A&M Transportation Institute Associate Research Scientist Haneen Khreis, who is also on the Center for Advancing Research […]

A small army of advocates was celebrated for the work they do in child passenger safety at the 3rd annual Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference, held in Austin July 29–31. Most of the 270 attendees were child passenger safety seat technicians (CPSTs) from across Texas. As part of the conference, they learned how tragedies can […]

TTI Graduate Research Assistant Jinuk Hwang is the recipient of a $6,500 scholarship from the American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF). The APTF Americans with Disabilities Act 25th Anniversary Scholarship will be awarded during the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA’s) TRANSform Conference held Oct. 13–16, 2019, in New York. This scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate […]

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) will be well represented at this year’s Automated Vehicles Symposium to be held July 15–18, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). Monday, July 15 Greg Winfree, TTI agency director, will introduce the […]