Steven Venglar, PE
TTI Senior Research Engineer
Program Manager
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
3500 NW Loop 410
Suite 315
San Antonio, TX 78229
(210) 321-1208
[email protected]
Mr. Steven Venglar is a research engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) San Antonio Research and Implementation Office. A long time ago he received both his BS and MS civil engineering degrees from Texas A&M University. His primary role is to provide traffic operations and safety research extension and technical support to state and local agencies in South Texas. In recent years, he has served as a project leader on research in the areas of speed management, freeway operations and safety, and methods for wrong way driving analysis. In performance of myriad traffic engineering research and transportation modeling studies, Mr. Venglar has developed a broad experience base using traffic analysis (Synchro, HCS, PASSER) and transportation modeling (CORSIM, VISSIM, TransModeler) tools. Mr. Venglar's career experience includes leadership roles in efforts to evaluate the system-wide impacts of transportation infrastructure improvements, improve hurricane evacuation practices, design managed lane access and weaving sections, develop improved methods for railroad preemption of traffic signals, and evaluate transportation simulation models. He has also participated in TTI's effort to develop Intelligent Transportation System plans for the Texas Department of Transportation. His professional development activities include developing and teaching courses on signal optimization, transportation simulation modeling, and traffic signal preemption; he also taught a National Highway Institute course on computerized traffic signal systems. He developed materials for a National Highway Institute course on signalized intersections and contributed to the update of a federal guide on signalized intersections. Mr. Venglar is a local member of the South Texas Section (Texas District) of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), and has served in several local leadership positions within the Texas District of ITE. He is involved in national ITE committees in several traffic engineering areas.
