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COLLEGE STATION – Three of the transportation industry’s most prominent contributors have been selected for induction into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor. The inductees are Gibb Gilchrist, a former executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation; DeWitt Greer, a former state commissioner of transportation and executive director of TxDOT; and Herb Kelleher, chairman, […]

COLLEGE STATION— U.S. Representative Tom DeLay and Texas A&M officials on Tuesday announced $1 million in federal funding to support advanced research in transportation operations and promote widespread implementation of the findings from that research. The funding will be dedicated to the Transportation Research Implementation Consortium for Operations and Management (TRICOM), which is housed at […]

The Texas Transportation Institute and the Texas Department of Public Safety agreed to join forces on future transportation research projects through a Memorandum of Agreement approved in July by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents and TTI and DPS directors. Successful cooperation on the ALERT project, a vehicle-based information system designed to improve the […]

Two groups of Texas high school students will attend intensive courses emphasizing transportation as a viable career option at the 1999 Summer Transportation Institutes this month. The program will be held at Texas Southern University in Houston July 5-16 and at Paul Quinn College in Dallas July 19-30. Each two-week institute, hosted by the Texas […]

The Texas Transportation Institute Center for Ports & Waterways has won an International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) Award for Information Technology for MERMAID, the Internet-based clearinghouse used in locating maritime industry information. Every two years IAPH recognizes innovative projects, research and studies that are seen to provide value to the maritime transport and […]

Laura Wright, webmaster at the Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, recently joined presenters from several prominent corporations at a national conference on intranet development. At the 1999 National Online Meeting held May 21 in New York, Wright joined with information professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Newsweek, MIT Libraries and COMTEX to advance understanding of how intranet sites […]

Two Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) students were among the 20 selected nationwide to attend the seventh annual Leadership Development Conference sponsored by the Eno Transportation Foundation. Josias Zietsman, a graduate student of civil engineering at Texas A&M University and Michael P. Hunter, a graduate student of transportation engineering at the University of Texas-Austin, […]

Texas A&M regents on Friday named the newest facility in the university’s research park for a former student and state highway department head who initiated a transportation research program that has spanned more than half a century. When Texas Transportation Institute personnel move into the new building this fall, it will bear the name of […]

The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) is among 30 institutions nationwide selected to host a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) 1999 Summer Transportation Institute. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater announced the institute sites last week. The institute will allow TTI, in partnership with Texas A&M University, Texas Southern University in Houston and Paul Quinn College […]

The Texas Transportation Institute provided the 18-wheeler crash test footage in the January 27th broadcast of Dateline. The broadcast emphasized the need for more regulation and inspection in the trucking industry. 18-wheelers are kings of the road on most Interstate Highways. They haul the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the furniture we buy, […]

Dr. Dallas Little, the Herbert D. Kelleher Professor of Transportation, has been named the first Senior Research Fellow of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI). The new position was created in response to an employee Continuous Improvement Process Team recommendation to recognize the contributions and increasing levels of responsibility of TTI’s most senior research staff, as […]

Safety belt use by Texas adults has increased steadily over the past decade, but usage rates for children lag far behind, according to recent studies. A mandatory seat belt law was passed in 1985 requiring drivers and front seat passengers to use safety belts. Since that time, seat belt use has jumped from 14 to […]

Mortimer Downey, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation, will visit the Texas Transportation Institute on Tuesday, March 24 to announce the establishment of a $1 million program designed to reduce the number of crash-related deaths and injuries in highway work zones. Each year across the United States, more than 20,000 traffic accidents occur in highway […]

The Texas House Committee on Transportation will hold its next public hearing on Wednesday March 25 at 1:30 p.m. at the Bush Presidential Library Conference Center in College Station. Committee members will focus specifically on two major subjects currently affecting transportation in Texas: issues related to speed limits and highway safety, and the effects of […]

Representatives of the Texas Transportation Institute and the U.S. Department of Transportation next week will receive Vice President Al Gore’s National Performance Review Hammer Award in recognition of a research effort designed to revolutionize law enforcement. The Hammer Award is the vice president’s program to recognize significant contributions in support of President Clinton’s National Performance […]

A Texas Transportation Institute research effort will soon become part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Permanent Research Collection of Information Technology. ALERT — Advanced Law Enforcement and Response Technology— has been under development at TTI since 1995, and is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The project is aimed at integrating the various functions of […]