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Recognizing the importance of increasing awareness of the safety dangers at highway–rail grade crossings (also known as level crossings), the International Union of Railways (UIC) began the International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) in 2009. Level crossing safety remains a major safety concern — especially regarding the dangers of trespassing on rail rights-of-way. In the […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Associate Research Scientist Subasish Das will publish the book Artificial Intelligence in Highway Safety (1st edition) September 29, 2022, with CRC Press/Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group. In this book, Das discusses advances in the highway safety field that involve artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. He specifically addresses how […]

Approximately two pedestrians and/or bicyclists are killed every day in crashes involving a large truck or bus. In these crashes, failure to yield right-of-way is a leading contributing factor at intersections and mid-blocks. Simply put, pedestrians and bicyclists may not be aware that large trucks and buses have larger blind spots, wider turning radii and […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers conducted a field demonstration of the Traffic Optimization for Signalized Corridors (TOSCo) project March 30–April 1 in Houston, Texas. Participants in the demonstration included the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Transportation Safety Board, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation […]

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) congratulates Freight Shuttle Xpress (FSX) on its memorandum of agreement with Port HoustonSM to pursue and explore opportunities to connect the Port’s shore-side container facilities to more inland locations via the Freight Shuttle System. Involving designers, engineers, and contractors, FSX is a freight transportation system powered by electricity and […]

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) U in the Driver Seat (UDS) education and outreach program held its 2022 UDS Symposium in Austin, Texas, April 29–30. With the support of State Farm, the Texas Department of Transportation, and Union Pacific Railroad, the symposium was available at no cost to college-aged students representing different colleges across […]

The Texas Transportation Hall of Honor board is accepting nominations for 2022 inductees until July 31, 2022. Texas is recognized as having one of the finest multimodal transportation systems in the world. The existence of this system has been a key aspect of the economic development of the state and in providing Texans with a […]

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Graduate Research Assistant Xiaoqiang “Jack” Kong was recently presented a 2022 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research — Doctoral by Texas A&M University’s Graduate and Professional School at an awards ceremony Apr. 25 in the Rudder Forum. One of Texas A&M’s highest honors, the […]

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) recently appointed Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers and staff members as chairs and co-chairs on TRB committees and groups. These newly appointed chairs and co-chairs started their term April 15. Committee chairs may serve two consecutive three-year terms, and group chairs a three-year term. TRB staff make recommendations for […]

Xiaoqiang “Jack” Kong, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) graduate research assistant, published the article “Work from Home in the Post-COVID World” in Case Studies on Transport Policy. The transport policy field blends engineering, economics, sociology and law to develop key solutions. Case Studies on Transport Policy pairs theoretical analyses with case studies to better inform […]

Union Pacific Railroad has awarded the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Youth Transportation Safety (YTS) Program a two-year grant to continue funding transportation safety initiatives tailored to educating young people. The grant serves as an extension of a three-year partnership between YTS and Union Pacific and will contribute tremendously to the expansion of programs and […]

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) published an article on Brittney Gick, Texas A&M Transportation Institute associate transportation researcher, in the TR News January–February 2022 issue. Gick serves as a co-chair for the Transportation Sustainability and Resilience Group on TRB’s Young Members Council (YMC). Within the group, Gick represents the Transportation and Society Section. Gick and […]

Melissa Tooley, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) director of external initiatives, received a Distinguished Alumni award April 9 at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Alumni Awards Banquet. The Department of Civil Engineering chose Tooley as their award recipient, one of the highest honors given to College of Engineering alumni. According to the award […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]