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Texas Transportation Researcher

Protecting the Monarch Super Highway

March 1, 2022

Volume 58, Number 1 (2022) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Impact on the Texas Environment Joint Effort by TTI, Texas A&M AgriLife Helps to Protect Endangered Species From Road Projects The Future Is Now: The Evolution of Aviation in Urban Environments — Urban Air Mobility Advisory Committee Formed […]

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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Impact on the Texas Environment

March 1, 2022

Tribune Article: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/09/biden-infrastructure-bill-texas/ White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TEXAS_Infrastructure-Investment-and-Jobs-Act-State-Fact-Sheet.pdf

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Joint Effort by TTI, Texas A&M AgriLife Helps to Protect Endangered Species From Road Projects

March 1, 2022

Unintended encounters with cars and trucks are nearly always bad news for animals. But not only do creatures face dangers on existing roads, they’re often imperiled from the moment that road construction begins. Animals of all types and sizes need to move about their habitats to forage, breed and simply exist, and that movement can […]

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The Future Is Now: The Evolution of Aviation in Urban Environments — Urban Air Mobility Advisory Committee Formed to Identify Policy

March 1, 2022

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones as they are commonly referred to, can carry out many impressive tasks, such as capturing stunning visual images, delivering packages, or carrying out complex military operations. While the use of UAVs is not new, their widespread use and seemingly unlimited potential in urban and rural areas have necessitated the […]

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TTI, CARTEEH Supporting Transportation Electrification Efforts

March 1, 2022

The rapid appeal and growth of electric vehicles (EVs) over the last few decades are part of a fundamental shift in the constantly evolving transportation system. Stakeholders with interests in transportation, energy and emissions are finding they need to come together to plan for the future of the nation’s transportation system, including considering the idea […]

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Environmental Research at TTI

March 1, 2022

The behavior of the brown pelican, the fascinating migration of monarch butterflies, and rangeland management are not usually associated with transportation research. But all that is changing. Over the last few years, researchers with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have developed a portfolio of environmental projects never considered part of transportation research. TTI already […]

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TTI Experts Receive Recognitions at 2022 TRB Annual Meeting

March 1, 2022

Approximately 60 Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers and staff participated in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 101st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 9–13. Held in person for the first time since 2020, about 6,000 participants attended more than 400 workshops, lectern sessions, and poster sessions, as well as nearly 400 committee meetings, during […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 1 Tagged With: awards, TRB Annual Meeting

Before Warning Bells Ring — Hazmat, Train Derailment Emergency Planning for Schools

March 1, 2022

Hazardous materials (hazmat) travel daily by road, rail, pipeline, waterway and air through the Lone Star State. Most transport vehicles safely arrive with their cargo. It’s when things go wrong — such as a hazmat incident or train derailment near a school — that a well-informed, thorough safety plan can save student, teacher and staff […]

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Crowdsourced Data Enhance Border Trip Insights in CIITR Report

March 1, 2022

Getting accurate, continuous travel information can be difficult for binational metropolitan regions like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. As a result, international cross-border trips often go underrepresented in travel demand and behavior analysis studies. This can be caused by a number of factors, including time and budget limits and boundary issues associated with […]

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TTI News

March 1, 2022

TTI, Texas A&M International University Formalize Partnership TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree and Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) President Pablo Arenaz recently signed a five-year memorandum of agreement (MOA) to facilitate cooperation between their respective institutions, particularly involving border logistical data. “The agreement comes after the local trade community in Laredo tasked [TAMIU’s Texas Center […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 1 Tagged With: institute news

Thinking Transportation Podcast

March 1, 2022

Download, listen, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Every other week, we interview a TTI expert or special guest on a wide range of transportation topics and discuss how those topics impact the average person. Upsides and Downsides Transportation and public health share a complicated union. Episode 27 How we develop our transportation systems […]

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The Last Stop with Greg Winfree: Transition Takes Time — Internal Combustion Engines Aren’t Dinosaurs Just Yet

March 1, 2022

In this issue of the Texas Transportation Researcher, we’ve featured TTI experts conducting cutting-edge research designed to preserve and protect our environment. That includes helping pave the way for alternative-fueled vehicles, like electric cars. Electrified and fuel-celled propulsion are gaining significant momentum, but internal combustion engines (ICEs) aren’t an extinct species yet. It’s easy to […]

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Big Data Big Dollars

January 4, 2022

Volume 57, Number 4 (2021) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: Freight by the Numbers Everything’s Bigger in Texas 95th Annual Transportation Short Course Highlights Research Excellence, Need for Continued Diligence TTI, TxDOT Win National Safety Award: “Safer by Design” Tool Aims to Save Lives on Texas Rural Roadways Big Data Saves DOTs Time, Resources […]

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Freight by the Numbers: Everything’s Bigger in Texas

December 1, 2021

3.3B Total freight tons transported* $3T Total worth of freight shipped* 313,000 Roadway centerline miles* 600B Truck trips annually ~39.6B Data points sorted annually via algorithm to assess freight fluidity and better understand truck parking *The Economic Role of Freight in Texas – Executive Summary published by the Texas Department of Transportation (April 2021).

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: freight, freight fluidity, Freight Transportation

95th Annual Transportation Short Course Highlights Research Excellence, Need for Continued Diligence

December 1, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the first-ever hybrid Transportation Short Course Oct. 11–13 both virtually and on the Texas A&M University campus. This year’s event marked 95 years of commitment by TTI and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to present the latest research innovations from the department’s research program to practitioners around […]

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TTI, TxDOT Win National Safety Award: “Safer by Design” Tool Aims to Save Lives on Texas Rural Roadways

December 1, 2021

The Roadway Safety Foundation honored the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with a 2021 National Roadway Safety Award Oct. 6. The foundation lauded the TxDOT-sponsored, TTI-developed “Safer by Design” tool for use by roadway designers to assess the safety characteristics of rural highway design. Nearly 4,000 people died […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: award, design, roadway safety, safety

Big Data Saves DOTs Time, Resources for Truck Parking Analysis

December 1, 2021

Truck drivers cover hundreds of miles a day carrying goods from distribution centers to store shelves. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requires truckers to take regular breaks and stop driving altogether once they pass a certain time behind the wheel. That means they must park their trucks and rest somewhere, and that can be […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: Big Data, freight, freight transportation planning, parking

TTI Develops Guidebook for Implementing Freight Fluidity in Texas

December 1, 2021

The efficient movement of goods is vital to the Texas economy, whatever the mode of transportation — via airports, highways, railways or waterways. Any disruption in the supply chain that prevents goods from moving efficiently can add not only to the costs of producing and shipping goods, but also to the variability and pricing of […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: freight, freight fluidity, guidebook, supply chain

Shipping Stranglehold: Pandemic Hampered Business Operations and Supply Chains in Texas

December 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic rattled industries and crippled supply chains worldwide. The results were also evident in the Lone Star State, as research by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) illustrates. Institute experts conducted research studying the impacts of COVID-19 at the Texas–Mexico border and found that the effects of the viral outbreak were felt almost […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: COVID-19, cross-border trips, freight, Freight Transportation, supply chain

Looked Good on Paper — But Blockchain Technology Is Revolutionizing Data Management, Security

December 1, 2021

As part of a classroom assignment at Harvard Business School in 1978, Dan Bricklin created the prototype for spreadsheet software. Not only did it make paper-based account ledgers with handwritten figures obsolete, but Steve Jobs credited Bricklin’s invention — dubbed VisiCalc (short for visible calculator) — with the success of the Apple IIe, the personal computer […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: blockchain, freight, freight logistics, Freight Transportation, supply chain

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