Environment Divisions
Air Quality and Environment
The Air Quality and Environment Division are experts in transportation energy and its impacts on human and environmental health. The team addresses transportation air quality in the broader context of sustainability, health equity, climate change, transportation electrification and decarbonization.
Center for Healthy and Efficient Mobility
The Center for Healthy and Efficient Mobility (CHEM) focuses on transportation and public health. The consortium is led by the TTI and consists of six partner universities: Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at El Paso, University of California, Riverside, Morehouse School of Medicine and North Dakota State University. CHEM is funded by a grant under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for a Tier-1 University Transportation Center.
Environmental Testing Facilities
TTI’s environmental testing facilities support cutting-edge research in erosion control, stormwater management, clean transportation and electric grid interactions. Located at the Texas A&M-RELLIS Campus, these one-of-a-kind labs help advance safer, more sustainable infrastructure.
The Team
Tara Ramani
Tara leads TTI’s Environment Research Group, conducting research that supports transportation conformity, evaluates project and policy impacts on air quality, and explores links between sustainable transportation and public health. She also serves as deputy director of CHEM, a USDOT Tier 1 UTC led by TTI.
Air Quality and
Environment
Madhusudhan Venugopal
Senior Research Engineer
(972) 994-2213
[email protected]
Center for Healthy and Efficient Mobility
Joe Zietsman
Deputy Agency Director
(979) 317-2796
[email protected]
Environmental Testing Facilities
Tara Ramani
Associate Agency Director
(979) 393-0688
[email protected]
