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COLLEGE STATION—Dr. Roger E. Smith, a researcher with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and, has been named holder of the Herbert D. Kelleher Professorship in Transportation. Smith came to Texas A&M in 1986 as an associate professor. He previously was an officer […]

HOUSTON—Dr. Naomi Ledé, a senior research scientist with the Texas Transportation Institute, has been recognized as an African American Hero in Transportation. Ledé received the honor from the Port of Houston Authority, along with Captain Paul Brown of the Houston Pilots, the group responsible for navigation safety for the Port of Houston, and former Port […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dominique Lord, Associate Research Scientist with the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2004 recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) D. Grant Mickle Award. The award recognizes work on an outstanding paper in traffic operations, safety or maintenance of transportation facilities. The award was presented January 14 […]

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently bestowed its Regents Fellow Service Award on TTI Deputy Director Dennis Christiansen and Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Southwest Region University Transportation Center Dock Burke. In 1998, the Board established the Regents Fellow Service Award Program to honor service, extension and research professionals who […]

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta awarded the “New Investigator Training Award for Unintentional Injury Prevention” to Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in early September. This $100,000 grant was awarded to study measures for improving the safety of older drivers by improving the design of traffic roundabouts. Roundabouts are circular intersections that require entering […]

When contemplating career options, most high school students give only passing consideration to transportation careers. Jonathon Garza is an exception by choosing a career in aviation. A program underway across the country and here in Houston this month aims to help more students follow his lead. The Texas Transportation Institute is teaming up with Texas […]

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has secured research funding to help increase the efficiency and security of the nation’s border crossings. The action, which provides $125,000 for the Texas Transportation Institute, will be designed to help improve the legitimate flow of goods and people across borders, while interdicting contraband and persons intending harm to the […]

AUSTIN — The late Charley V. Wootan, former Director Emeritus of Texas Transportation and long time civic leader, was among four prominent Texans inducted into the Transportation Hall of Honor on Monday. The other honorees include: The Honorable Dolph Briscoe Jr., former governor of Texas, Luther DeBerry, former engineer-director of the State Department of Highways […]

Students of William Howard Taft High School this week are launching the state’s first-ever teen-developed campaign aimed at making the streets and highways safer. Nationwide, more than 5,700 teens died in vehicle crashes during 2001, the most recent year reflected in current statistics. In San Antonio during the same year, 10 teens were killed in […]

Texas Transportation Institute researchers report that an estimated 43 percent of all fatal traffic crashes in Texas during 2001 involved at least one driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist who was legally drunk. Nationwide, that number is only 35 percent. Becky Davies and David Willis of TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety further state that lack of adequate […]

Congressman Tom DeLay was successful in securing $1 million to enable the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) to help identify effective approaches for improving mobility and air quality in Houston. TTI will apply results from their nationally recognized transportation research efforts and will work closely with Houston area transportation organizations. The research will include identification of […]

(Washington, D.C.) – Dennis L. Christiansen, deputy director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2002 recipient of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) S.S. Steinberg Award. Created in honor of S.S. Steinberg, the founding president of ARTBA’s Research & Education Division (RED), this award recognizes an individual who has made remarkable […]

(Washington, D.C.) – Gene Buth, Division Head of Safety and Structural Systems of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), is the 2002 recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Kenneth A. Stonex Award. This award was created in honor of Kenneth A. Stonex, the General Motors engineer who pioneered highway safety in the 1940’s-1950’s. Concepts conceived […]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) officials will celebrate the unveiling of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Carl Rakeman transportation paintings at the Gibb Gilchrist Building on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Herbert Richardson, director of the Texas Transportation Institute, along with FHWA special guests Dennis Judycki, deputy executive director, and […]

Jim Kruse became the newly appointed director of the Center for Ports and Waterways (CPW) for the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) on September 1. His role will also engage him as a national sea grant ports and harbor specialist for the Texas Sea Grant College program at Texas A&M University. “Jim’s mixture of personal and […]

Bob Lanier, the former Houston mayor whose transportation service record spans all levels of government from city hall to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, today became the newest member of the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor at a ceremony in the Lanier home. Guests at the ceremony included much of the state’s transportation leadership […]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – Dr. Herbert Richardson, director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), was recently honored as a National Associate of the National Academies, an honorary title established by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Richardson¿s achievement carries a lifetime appointment. “Dr. Richardson¿s service in transportation is valued, honored, and appreciated both […]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – John Overman, associate research scientist with the Texas Transportation Institute, was selected by The National Transit Institute (NTI) at Rutgers University to be part of the Fellows class of 2003. NTI Fellows are selected through a national nomination process for a combination of insight and recent, first-hand experience in implementing advanced […]

COLLEGE STATION, TX – Dr. Naomi Ledé, senior research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in College Station, Texas was honored as the recipient of the inaugural Sharon D. Banks Award for Innovative Leadership in Transportation on January 16, 2002, at the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) 81st Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C. “Dr. […]

State transportation officials on Thursday will pay tribute to the man considered to be the father of the Texas highway system when they induct Dewitt C. Greer into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor. Greer, a 1923 graduate of Texas A&M University, joined the Texas Highway Department in 1927 and served as the engineer-director of […]