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TTI, TAMIU Exchange Information at Land Ports of the Future Workshop

March 30th, 2022

TTI's Katie Turnbull speaking at the Land Ports of the Future workshop.

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers attended the March 24–25 Land Ports of the Future Workshop in Laredo, Texas. TTI co-sponsored the workshop as part of TTI’s memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). Katie Turnbull, TTI executive associate director, and Juan Villa, research scientist and regional manager for Latin America, represented […]

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Winfree Column in March 2022 Traffic Technology International Now Available

March 23rd, 2022

In the March 2022 edition of Traffic Technology International, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director Greg Winfree’s Mode Warrior editorial discusses the recent increase in train robberies in the Los Angeles Basin. However, as he points out in the article, railroads are not the only “potential source for plunder… The problem exists across modes, so we […]

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CIITR Expands Transit Capacity, QoS Guidance to Border Applications

February 28th, 2022

CIITR Expands Transit Capacity, QoS Guidance to Border Applications.

In a recent research project, a team from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research (CIITR) addresses unique needs of border transit to inform the next edition of the Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual (TCQSM). Currently in its third edition, the manual gives guidance for transit capacity and […]

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Tim Lomax Receives TxDOT’s 2022 Road Hand Award

February 24th, 2022

Tim Lomax Receives TxDOT’s 2022 Road Hand Award

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Regents Fellow Tim Lomax received the Road Hand Award at the 2022 Texas Transportation Forum on February 7 in San Antonio, Texas. The Road Hand Award is the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT’s) highest honor for people who drive the state forward in the area of transportation. Awardees have contributed […]

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Caution: Navigation Tools Could Steer Drivers to Shortest, But Not Safest Route

February 22nd, 2022

Navigation system on a cellular device.

Time for a road trip. You punch the destination into your GPS and choose the suggested route. But is this shortest route the safest? Not necessarily, according to Texas A&M University researchers. Dr. Dominique Lord and Dr. Soheil Sohrabi, with the help of funding from the A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M, designed a […]

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CIITR’s Jason Wu Applies LiDAR Sensors to Safety, Traffic Monitoring

February 18th, 2022

Driver simulation software with view of road.

Managing high traffic at border crossings necessitates secure, efficient technologies. Sensors monitor vehicles entering and exiting the queue and relay that information to a traffic management center. While there are often limitations with video cameras and radar sensors, 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors — such as those installed in self-driving cars — can […]

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To the Skies and Beyond! CIITR Conducts Research on Aerial, Satellite Imagery of Border Crossings

February 11th, 2022

To the Skies and Beyond! CIITR Conducts Research on Aerial, Satellite Imagery of Border Crossings

Research recently completed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research (CIITR) demonstrated the potential usefulness of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and satellite images, combined with artificial intelligence (AI), for improving accuracy of border travel time estimates in extreme queuing conditions. The land ports of entry (LPOEs) at the U.S.–Mexico […]

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Kong Leads TTI Team in IEEE Journal Publication

February 3rd, 2022

picture of Xiaoqiang “Jack” Kong

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) paper “Using an Interpretable Machine Learning Framework to Understand the Relationship of Mobility and Reliability Indices on Truck Drivers’ Route Choices.” (Note: To access the full article, readers will need a subscription.) A member of the TTI Mobility Division, Graduate […]

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TTI Experts Receive Recognitions at 2022 TRB Annual Meeting

January 26th, 2022

Award winners at the Transportation Research Board conference.

About 60 Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers and staff participated in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 101st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 9–13. Held in person for the first time since 2020, about 6,000 participants attended more than 400 workshops, lectern sessions, and poster sessions, as well as nearly 400 committee meetings during […]

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TTI’s Wunderlich Elected to ITE’s Honorary Membership

January 25th, 2022

Robert Wunderlich portrait.

The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) recently elected Robert Wunderlich, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) senior research engineer and director of the Center for Transportation Safety (CTS) to Honorary Membership. Wunderlich is internationally recognized for his expertise in traffic safety research, policy analysis, education and outreach. Election to ITE’s Honorary Membership is the organization’s “highest […]

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TTI Authors TCRP Guidance for Transit Agencies Using Social Media

January 14th, 2022

Subasish Das photo.

Transit agencies increasingly acknowledge social media’s value in providing customers a voice, boosting ridership and presenting new solutions to the public. To help codify best practices for transit agencies using social media, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers authored Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 156 — Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation: A […]

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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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