A five-minute video celebrating the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Centennial has been awarded three 2020 Telly Awards. Produced by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the video highlights the excitement, challenges, and fulfillment of working in the transportation research field. The video premiered during TRB’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. in early January. TRB is […]
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In Memoriam: Clifford Spiegelman
TTI Senior Research Scientist Clifford Spiegelman recently passed away. While at TTI, Spiegelman received numerous awards including the 2007 Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research and the 2016 Don Owen Award from the San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical Association. He served as a distinguished professor with the Texas A&M University Department of […]
Post-COVID Transportation Planning Demands the Right Data, Not Guesswork
By Johanna Zmud When will people start vacationing? How many will stick with work-from-home routines? Will online grocery shopping be a fading fad or an enduring trend? The answers to these and other related questions have big implications not only for how Americans live and work after the current crisis, but also for how they […]
The Safe System Approach with Robert Wunderlich, P.E.
Robert Wunderlich, P.E., ITE Fellow and Director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, discusses the Safe System approach to reducing serious injuries and fatalities on roadways. He highlights the various aspects of the Safe System, including roadway design that reduces user error and lowers impact forces, and explains what […]
TTI Kicks Safety into High Gear
Volume 56, Number 2 (2020) Adobe PDF version Inside This Issue: Texas’ Seven Deadly Safety Stats What We’re Thinking: Teleworking — The New Normal? YTS Program Adapts Young Driver Outreach for Online Learning Redesigned LookLearnLive.org Expands Content, Improves Usability Safer by Design: New TTI Tool Prioritizes Roadway Safety from the Get-Go A Galaxy Not So […]
Texas’ Seven Deadly Safety Stats*
* Statistics are relative to all Texas traffic crash fatalities (2010–2016) and taken from the Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan website (https://www.texasshsp.com/).
What We’re Thinking: Teleworking — The New Normal?
By Melissa Tooley This article was originally published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 3, 2020. WHEN COMPANIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY recently announced new work-from-home policies in response to COVID-19, the news sent employees and companies alike into a tailspin, creating hardships for many. Workers scrambled to retrieve computers, files and supplies from their workplace and […]
YTS Program Adapts Young Driver Outreach for Online Learning
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Youth Transportation Safety (YTS) program — part of the Institute’s Center for Transportation Safety — is active in schools and communities across the country. The program supports peer-led road safety education and outreach to encourage young drivers to practice safe driving behaviors. When schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Redesigned LookLearnLive.org Expands Content, Improves Usability
When Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Scientist Michael Manser sought a redesign of LookLearnLive.org, his number-one priority was to improve its usability as a resource for stakeholders in motorcycle safety. The site supports the safety and awareness campaign developed by TTI, the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Department of Public Safety […]
Safer by Design: New TTI Tool Prioritizes Roadway Safety from the Get-Go
MEASURE TWICE, CUT ONCE — that’s the old carpenter’s adage aimed at improving quality and reducing error. A new tool created by researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) can help engineers achieve similar efficiencies when designing roadways while saving lives and reducing injuries. Typically, roadway designs are largely dictated by engineering decisions driven […]
A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Safety Innovation at the 2020 Virtual Traffic Safety Conference
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the first-ever virtual Traffic Safety Conference June 10–12, 2020. The conference, supported by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), focused on traffic safety issues and forward-looking research aligned with TxDOT’s goal to end all traffic fatalities on Texas roadways by 2050. For more information on the zero deaths […]
Groundbreaking Motorcycle Net Containment System for Concrete Barriers
For decades, concrete barriers have proven successful in helping vehicles stay on the roadway during a crash. Sometimes motorcyclists also crash into these barriers and are often injured or killed if thrown over the top. Researchers from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Roadside Safety and Physical Security Division designed and tested a semi-rigid containment […]
TTI Tests New Standard for Innovative TL-2 Short Radius Guardrail Treatment
Geometric challenges, special conditions and restrictions often make it difficult to accommodate an effective and compliant curved guardrail, particularly at intersections on low-speed roadways. Working with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), engineering experts in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Roadside Safety and Physical Security Division have developed a short radius guardrail system. The […]
TTI Develops New MASH-Compliant Barrier Design, Foundation System to Shield Older Bridges during 18-Wheeler Crashes
A large, anxious crowd was gathered for a full-scale crash test on a hot July day in 2019. Although a rare event, using 18-wheelers to crash-test guardrails, bridge railings and, in this case, a concrete barrier, is always memorable. And if the test (conducted at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute [TTI] Proving Grounds on The […]
Texas Impaired Driving Task Force Encourages Virtual Happy Hour Drinkers to Stay Home
SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted people to get creative with the ways they socialize with friends and family. With alcohol sales on the rise and more people staying at home, virtual happy hours were born. One option for holding a virtual happy hour: having a meetup from the comfort of your home […]
TTI News
TTI Experts Address the COVID-19 Pandemic COVID-19 is changing everything we know. That includes transportation. Our most severe public health crisis in a century is drastically reshaping how we work, learn, worship and recreate. It’s also transforming how we — and the products we need every day — are moved safely and efficiently from one […]
The Last Stop with Greg Winfree: More than Meets the Eye — Expanding How We See Transportation Safety in a World with Pandemics
Historically, transportation research has focused on avoiding dangers we can see. The first traffic light troubleshot human errors in judgment by better regulating traffic flow. As the 20th century unfolded, our focus shifted to innovations like seat belts and air bags to help us survive crashes we couldn’t avoid. Nowadays, sensors and cameras — high-tech […]
Upcoming Conferences
2020 Virtual 38th Texas Aviation Conference Virtual Transportation Short Course On this page: 2020 Virtual 38th Texas Aviation Conference Virtual Transportation Short Course
TTI, Texas A&M Partner on Senior Driver Assistance Technologies Study
TTI Human Factors Program Manager and Senior Research Scientist Michael Manser recently concluded a study in which he partnered with Ranjana Mehta, associate professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of Texas A&M’s NeuroErgonomics Laboratory. The study examined how senior drivers prefer to learn about assistance technologies. Researchers discovered […]
COVID-19 General Information
COVID-19 Management Program The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) COVID-19 Management Program follows the COVID-19 guidelines provided by the Texas A&M University System and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) while allowing for additional measures, as applicable, to address unique agency needs. TTI employees should review MyTTI COVID-19 Guidance page on the agency […]