Energy Sector Briefs Document No. Title Author(s) ESB-14-01 TxDOT/TTI Joint Effort to Address Roadway Damage Resulting from Energy Development Epps, Newcomb, McDaniel & Bilyeu ESB-14-02 Recommended Shoulder Widths Fernando, Newcomb, Epps, McDaniel ESB-14-03 Shoulder/Edge Repair Techniques Epps, Newcomb, McDaniel, Bilyeu ESB-14-04 Rehabilitating Oil-Field Damaged Roads with Foamed Asphalt Soliz, Scullion, Sebesta, McDaniel ESB-15-01 Maintenance Repair […]
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Pavement Profiler Evaluation Facility
Located at the Texas A&M RELLIS Campus (formerly known as the Riverside Campus), TTI’s Pavement Profiler Evaluation Facility was set up to aid in the evaluation, support and implementation of profiling products, technology and initiatives. Initially constructed in 1999, the facility has a 2000-ft long dense-graded hot-mix asphalt (HMA) test track on which inertial profiler […]
State, National Leaders to Explore Infrastructure Renewal Strategies
From ports and bridges to roads and power grids, the nation’s infrastructure is in critical need of upgrade and expansion. Yet the path forward to meeting these needs is far from certain. In September, national and state policy makers, industry leaders, infrastructure scholars and executives from the public and private infrastructure sectors will gather in […]
TTI Demonstrates New Tech Aimed at Mitigating Wrong-Way Driving Crashes
Reporters and transportation agency representatives gathered under a tent near a repurposed runway at The Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus August 17. They watched as Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Research Engineer Melisa Finley — known for her innovative studies on wrong-way drivers — led a first-of-its-kind and successful connected-vehicle demonstration funded by the […]
Cyber Campers Hear from the Experts: Opportunities Abound in Self-Driving Vehicle Research
Despite the belief that fully autonomous cars and 18-wheelers will be commonplace by 2025, a researcher with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) told high school students attending a technology and engineering camp that concerns over liability and policy could delay the widespread implementation of self-driving vehicles. “I don’t think it will happen in my […]
First Texas A&M Self-driving Shuttle Recruits Volunteer Passengers
Come ride along and tell us what you think As part of the Campus Transportation Technology Initiative, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)—in partnership with Texas A&M Transportation Services and Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering—is testing a self-driving shuttle to improve campus mobility. TTI invites students, the local community and members of the […]
Cast Your Vote for TTI Panels at SXSW 2018
Senior Research Engineer Ginger Goodin and Associate Research Engineer Rajat Rajbhandari of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have proposed two panels for the South by Southwest Conference to be held March 9-18, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Both panels examine how technology and transportation intersect to impact our quality of life. How Government Can Fast-track New Mobility […]
TTI Researchers Use Data Visualization to Create Interactive Congestion Strategy Website
In 2016, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Associate Transportation Researcher Phil Lasley came to James Moughon, TTI software applications developer, looking for a way to make his congestion-mitigation strategy website more user-friendly. At the time, the website listed more than 100 congestion-mitigation strategies using static graphics, but Lasley wanted to make it more interactive. “One […]
Smart Growth Trip Generation Study in California
FHWA-Texas Division Staff Visits TTI
Seven staff members from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)-Texas Division spent the day at TTI on Wednesday, July 26, to learn about current research initiatives and tour TTI laboratories. The group visited both the TTI Proving Grounds at the Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus and TTI’s State Headquarters on the Texas A&M University campus […]
Fort Worth
The Research & Implementation – Fort Worth Program and the Urban Analysis Program are located in TTI’s Fort Worth office. Working in coordination with the TTI Dallas office to support the TxDOT Dallas District, Research & Implementation – Fort Worth provides ongoing research and technical support to the Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso and Lubbock […]
Austin
The Austin Office provides TTI with a physical presence in the capital city—an office close to our largest sponsor, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), and the Texas Legislature. This office acts as a conduit for communication between TTI and TxDOT, as well as a “home port” for our researchers from other offices when they […]
Dallas
TTI has operated an office in Dallas to serve that rapidly growing area of the state since 1968, when the Federal Highway Administration selected TTI to develop one of the first integrated freeway and surface street control and management systems in the United States. Researchers in the Dallas Office have expertise in intelligent transportation systems, […]
El Paso
El Paso, along with its sister city of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, comprises the largest bi-national metropolitan area in the world. The inherent complexity resulting from its geographic situation and intense international economic activity, make El Paso a unique location to conduct state-of-the-art research on a wide variety of transportation issues. […]
Houston
The Research and Implementation Office in Houston assists local agencies and organizations through technology transfer and through the implementation and evaluation of advanced technologies in the urban transportation environment. Areas of research and implementation activities include highways, freight rail, transit (bus and rail), air, and ports & waterways. TTI’s Center for Ports & Waterways and […]
San Antonio
The TTI San Antonio Research and Implementation Office (SA RIO) has partnered with Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Districts and local agencies in South Texas since 1993. The SA RIO performs practical research in the traffic engineering, traffic operations, safety and emergency preparedness areas and assists local agencies and organizations link research findings to implementation […]