Robert Skinner, the executive director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) was honored by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) during the Institute’s reception in Washington, D.C., Jan. 23 – which takes place each year on Sunday night of TRB’s Annual Meeting. The TTI Director’s Research Champion Award was presented to Skinner for his support of […]
TRB’s Skinner Named Research Champion
By Popular Demand, Crash Reporting Changes Underway
If you want safer roads, you have to have accurate and effective accident reporting. That’s why traffic safety experts and researchers — but especially Texas law enforcement officers — are cheering a proposed new accident-reporting form. The new form was the result of a collaboration between TTI and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) designed […]
Annual Study on Nationwide Traffic Congestion to be released January 20
The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) will distribute the findings of its annual Urban Mobility Report at 12:01 a.m. CDT on Thursday, January 20, 2011. Sponsors of the study, established in 1982, include the Texas Transportation Institute, the University Transportation Center for Mobility, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association – Transportation Development Foundation, and the […]
Leading the Distracted Driving Research Effort
TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety (CTS) is positioning itself to become the go-to source in Texas for research related to distracted driving – a growing safety concern for policy makers in the state and around the country. Enter Joel Cooper, an assistant research scientist hired by CTS last summer. Already, he has testified twice before […]
Hydrogen Fuel Tanks Tested at TTI
The Texas Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Roadside Safety Program is helping to determine the crashworthiness and safety of vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel tanks in a series of unusual crash tests at the Riverside Campus. The tests will help provide data toward the development of federal motor vehicle safety standards when hydrogen becomes an alternative fuel […]
Seymour Named Regents Fellow
TTI Associate Agency Director Ed Seymour was named a Regents Fellow by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents during its meeting Dec. 2. Seymour joins 75 other agency professionals who have been singled out for the Regents Fellow Service Award since the program began in 1998. He is only the seventh TTI employee […]
Street-Sign Regulations: Fact vs. Fiction
Recent reports that new federal regulations requiring a replacement of existing road signs could bankrupt cities and other entities are not entirely based on fact, according to one of the nation’s leading experts on traffic control device regulations. “Some of the reporting is not painting an accurate picture of the economic impact,” says Gene Hawkins, […]
Anderson Joins Elite Construction Organization
Stuart Anderson, Zachry Professor in Design and Construction Integration II in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering and TTI Manager of the Construction Program, was inducted into the National Academy of Construction (NAC) in ceremonies held recently in New York City. The prestigious election into the select organization “made up of industry leaders whose present […]
Following Partnership, IBM Addresses TTI Employees at UTCM Colloquium
When it comes to solving transportation issues, few techniques matter as much as data analysis. That was the main theme of the latest University Transportation Center for Mobility (UTCM) colloquium, entitled “Smarter City Vision: An Opportunity to Think and Act in New Ways,” presented by IBM. “We are gathering tons of data,” Johnny Rowland of […]
TDS Honored by National Safety Council
The National Safety Council (NSC) has recognized the Texas Transportation Institute’s Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) program with its Teen Driving Safety Leadership Award. This is the fourth national award the TDS program has received. For most of its nearly 100-year history, the NSC has focused on workplace and transportation safety, but the organization […]
Short Course Long on History, Achievements
With the theme “one DOT,” the 84th Annual Transportation Short Course attracted more than 1,800 professionals for the two-day event at Texas A&M University Oct 12-13. Rich with history — the first short course occurred when President Calvin Coolidge occupied the White House — short course is co-sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) […]
Avoid harm. Obey the Stop Arm.” — TTI Helps Raise Awareness During School Bus Safety Week”
“Avoid harm. Obey the Stop Arm.” That’s the theme of National School Bus Safety Week (October 18-22). The theme refers to the moveable red stop sign extending from the side of a school bus, warning motorists to stop because children are getting on or off the bus and may be crossing the street. The goal […]
Texas Transportation Pioneer to be Inducted into Hall of Honor
The former chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission and the National Rail Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), David M. Laney, will be inducted into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor today (Oct. 6) at the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT‘s) Dewitt Greer Building in Austin. The induction ceremony will take place at 3:30 p.m. “David Laney’s contributions […]
TTI Advisory Council Addresses Challenges of Texas Transportation
With the state’s transportation concerns a main focus of their annual gatherings, members of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) Advisory Council had much to consider when they met in College Station, Sept. 16. Discussions centered on many of the tough issues, including the lack of federal and state funding for road projects and congestion’s current […]
Alcohol and motorcycling: push to end deadly combination is focus of new safety campaign
College Station, Texas/September 30, 2010 – The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Traffic Safety Section is launching a new motorcycle rider impairment campaign October 1st on the LookLearnLive.org website. The Drink. Ride. Lose. anti-impaired riding campaign aims to bring awareness about the significance of the impaired rider crash problem in Texas, as well as encourage […]
TTI’s Environmental and Emissions Research Facility: A Researcher’s Dream
State and federal leaders applauded the Texas Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) new Environmental and Emissions Research Facility (EERF) during its grand opening at Texas A&M University’s Riverside Campus. The EERF is the largest drive-in environmentally controlled test chamber in the country, enabling researchers to manipulate temperature, humidity, solar impact and wind speeds. Full sized 18-wheelers and […]
TTI Plays Vital Role in Hurricane Evacuation Decisions
With hurricane season at its peak through September, a Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)-developed, patent-pending system used to monitor travel times could soon be put to the test if Houston has to evacuate. The new travel time monitoring system has been installed along Interstate 45 from north of Houston to Huntsville. By October, the system will […]
Summer’s Over: Time to Stop Again for School Buses
For millions of children across the country, the routine of riding a school bus gets underway for another year. Getting on and off the bus is one of the most dangerous times of their day because of the threat of stop-arm violators — motorists who ignore the law and pass a school bus that’s loading […]
U.S. State Department Signs Major Contract with TTI
In one of the largest contracts ever awarded to the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), the Crashworthy Structures Program is the recipient of a U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Diplomatic Security pact that will provide up to $7 million in work over a five-year period. The contract calls for TTI to ‘design, analyze and […]
Hawkins, TAMUite Receive Statewide Honors
Gene Hawkins and the Texas A&M Student Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (TAMUite) were the recipients of prestigious awards during the ITE Texas District Summer Meeting in Sugar Land, Texas. For Hawkins — Zachry Department of Civil Engineering associate professor and Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) research engineer — it was the highest individual […]