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TxDOT Projects Save Commuters $915 Million

November 25, 2024

Despite more drivers on the road, a historic amount of TxDOT projects have helped reduce traffic delays and ease commutes across the state according to a new report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, mobility, Texas 100 Most Congested, TxDOT

TTI Publishes 2023 Urban Mobility Report

June 11, 2024

American commuters spent 54 hours stuck in traffic in 2022, matching exactly their experience from 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a brief but sharp decline in daily travel delay, according to a new study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Texas Commuters Saved $3 Billion in 2022

November 30, 2023

Commuters across Texas reaped time and cost savings valued at more than $3 billion last year, thanks to transportation improvements and pandemic-related trends that made their drives quicker than just a few years ago. The findings are drawn from TTI’s annual analysis, which measures traffic delays in more than 2,100 of the most congested road segments in the state.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, corridor, mobility, Texas 100

TTI’s Bill Eisele Featured in CNBC News Video

February 8, 2023

TTI Associate Agency Director Bill Eisele was recently featured in a CNBC news video on Feb. 6 about traffic and congestion. According to Eisele, “Just like congestion doesn’t have a single cause, there isn’t a single solution. And for the most part, we recommend more of everything in growing regions, especially where there’s high population […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bill Eisele, CNBC, congestion, mobility, traffic

Schrank Featured in Washington Post Article

September 23, 2022

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Senior Research Scientist David Schrank was recently featured in a Washington Post article on September 16 about hybrid work schedules and congestion. According to the story, “with more workers returning to offices since Labor Day, the Washington region’s notorious rush-hour traffic has returned with a vengeance, as pandemic-era hybrid schedules have […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, David Schrank, mobility

Texas Traffic Gets a Pandemic Pause

December 21, 2021

Traffic congestion receded in spring 2020, then bounced back in fall Roadway bottlenecks were back to near pre-pandemic levels in Texas in late 2020 after overall hours wasted in traffic dropped by more than half in the early part of that year, according to a new traffic study performed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, COVID-19, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

TTI Publishes 2021 Urban Mobility Report

June 29, 2021

COVID-19 Gave Us an Historic Traffic Hiatus, But the Pause Didn’t Last Long America’s worst public health crisis in a century flattened roadway congestion to levels not seen in 40 years, but the respite was short-lived, according to the 2021 Urban Mobility Report (UMR) from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). In the pandemic shutdown […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, COVID-19, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Texas Drivers Face Longest Delays on Houston, Austin Freeways

December 10, 2019

Fueled by the state’s steady growth and healthy economy, Houston’s West Loop this year repeats its 2018 rank as the most gridlocked corridor in the state. Interstate 35 in central Austin comes in a close second, with the Southwest and Eastex Freeways in Houston and Dallas’ Woodall Rodgers Freeway rounding out the top five. Researchers […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, mobility, Texas Clear Lanes

New Study Underscores Economy/Traffic Jam Link

August 22, 2019

If more Americans are working, a new report confirms, more of us are also tied up in traffic. The picture is painted clearly in the 2019 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Along with illustrating the problem, researchers also stress the same straightforward solutions they’ve long advocated: more of everything […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, economics, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

TTI Researchers Use Data Visualization to Create Interactive Congestion Strategy Website

August 7, 2017

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, data visualization

Transportation Leaders Explore Congestion, Funding, Alternative Modes at Policy Symposium

November 4, 2016

Roadway congestion challenges and solutions were front and center on November 3 as transportation policy followers gathered for a symposium hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the Texas Tribune. Throughout the morning, policy makers and other leaders stressed the need for careful planning in anticipation of continued rapid population growth, most of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, planning, public policy, symposium, Texas Tribune, transportation funding

Researchers Study Traffic Make Up on Texas’ I-35 & SH 130

August 13, 2015

In the Austin area, more than 220,000 vehicles travel on I-35 on a daily basis. In contrast, SH 130, the tolled bypass around Austin only carries 40,000 vehicles daily. Why do more vehicles choose the I-35 route? What would make travelers, particularly big trucks, more likely to use SH 130? Associate Research Scientist Tina Geiselbrecht […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, I-35, SH 130, transportation policy research center

Lomax Outlines Lower Cost Strategies to Address Congestion on Busy Houston Highway

April 13, 2015

Efforts are underway to improve traffic conditions on US 59 / IH 69 in Houston, rated as one of the state’s most congested roadways. In the newest episode of Mobility NOW, Tim Lomax, a TTI Senior Research Engineer, explains how lower cost strategies can address gridlock problems on that busy highway stretch and others like […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, Mobility Investment Priorities Project, Mobility NOW, Tim Lomax

Most Texans Support More Funding for Transportation, New Poll Shows

December 1, 2014

Traffic congestion in Texas continues to worsen each year, but that’s not changing how the vast majority of Texans feel about their cars and trucks. This and a variety of other insights come from the first Texas Transportation Poll conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Transportation Policy Research Center (PRC). The survey examines the […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 50, Number 4 Tagged With: congestion, mobility, Texas Transportation Poll, transportation funding, travel behavior

Annual Study Ranks Traffic on Nearly 1,800 Road Segments

August 29, 2014

Traffic congestion is relative. What constitutes “bad” depends on where you live. And for the first time, the state’s annual ranking of its most gridlocked roadways will give Texans in smaller cities a look at problem roadways in their own areas, regardless of how they compare to big-city bottlenecks. What originally began as the list […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, corridor, mobility

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain

December 6, 2013

TTI’s Advanced Traffic Forecasting Helps Austin Prepare for 2035 According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), 180,000 vehicles per day drive IH 35 between US 183 and SH 71, the 10-mile central artery for travel and commerce in Austin. Congestion time—defined as the number of hours when travelers cannot travel at least 50 miles […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Advanced Traffic Forecasting, congestion, Jeff Shelton, Mobility Investment Priorities Project

The I-35 Expansion Project

September 1, 2012

The Texas Department of Transportation created MY 35, a citizen-driven effort to expand a 96-mile stretch from Hillsboro to Salado of I-35, and engaged TTI to provide independent technical support for the effort.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 48, Number 3 Tagged With: congestion, infrastructure, mobility, reconstruction, safety, traffic forecasts, traffic management

Fighting Congestion with Technology: The New Frontier

March 1, 2012

A technological revolution is underway that has transportation leaders, government officials and even attorneys abuzz with questions and hope about what it could mean in solving a growing and costly concern — congestion.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 48, Number 1 Tagged With: congestion, data collection, mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Rider 42

December 1, 2011

Traffic congestion problems in Texas are nothing new. What is new is the approach being taken by state leaders in their efforts to address them.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 47, Number 4 Tagged With: congestion, investment priorities, legislature, mobility

Researchers Identify the Nation’s Most Congested Corridors

November 15, 2011

Holiday travelers will have a better idea of exactly where to expect traffic delays, as well as some help in planning for them, thanks to a report released today by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), a Texas A&M University System agency. The 2011 Congested Corridors Report is the first nationwide effort to identify reliability problems […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: congestion, mobility

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