Connected Infrastructure

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
505 East Huntland Drive
Room 45525
Austin, TX 78752
(512) 407-1115
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Mr. Wood is a nationally recognized researcher and project manager focused on the intersection of transportation policy, planning, and operations. Specifically, over the last fifteen years, Mr. Wood led research efforts that investigated how emerging technologies influenced the transportation system, the effective implementation of road and parking pricing systems, design, and behavioral factors for managed lanes (e.g., carpool and express toll lanes), and the rollout of connected vehicle applications for commercial fleet vehicles. Mr. Wood has authored over 65 journal reports, conference papers, and project reports during his time as a researcher.

While at TTI, Mr. Wood has led over 30 externally-funded projects as a Principal Investigator, totaling over $4M in research support, for a variety of public agency and corporate sponsors; including the Federal Highway Administration, Texas Department of Transportation, North Central Texas Council of Governments, Capital Metro, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Cintra, Carma Corporation, Lindsay Corporation, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.  He was the principal investigator for a multi-year project sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation to develop new methods for communicating traveler information for managed lane networks. For the Federal Highway Administration, Mr. Wood led regional workshops for public agencies looking to advance new congestion pricing applications. He was the lead author of NCHRP Synthesis Report 559: Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes.  Mr. Wood was also the primary author of the Planning Considerations Chapter for NCHRP Report 835: Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes.  Mr. Wood was the Principal Investigator for TTI on the Texas Connected Freight Corridors (TCFC) Project, a multi-year partnership to deploy connected vehicle applications throughout the state, in concert with the Southwest Research Institute, UT-Austin, TxDOT, NCTCOG, and the FHWA.

Additionally, Mr. Wood is a member of the Managed Lane Committee and the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Committee for the Transportation Research Board. He is also the Research Coordinator for the TRB Managed Lane Committee, leading the development of research needs statements and direction of future research.