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CARTEEH’s Khreis Shares Passion for Health Studies with TTI

April 4, 2018

The newest researcher in the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy and Health (CARTEEH) of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is determined to make environmental health a prominent and permanent fixture of the Institute’s research initiatives going forward. And she’s off to a good start. Assistant Research Scientist Haneen Khreis began her […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CARTEEH, emissions, environment, Haneen Khreis, public health, The Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions

CARTEEH Presents Perspectives on Transportation Emissions, Exposures and Health Seminar

November 14, 2017

The Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CARTEEH) is hosting a seminar, Perspectives on Transportation Emissions, Exposures and Health, featuring Dr. Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. Dr. Nieuwenhuijsen is widely regarded as an expert in the field of air pollution exposures and public health and will […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CAR-TEEH, CARTEEH, emissions, environment, public health

TTI Gets a Look at Future Transit Technology

June 7, 2017

Proterra may not be a name you are familiar with. The Burlingame, California-based manufacturer of battery-powered buses has over 300 of its zero tailpipe emissions Catalyst buses plying transit routes in the United States. Proterra brought one of its Catalyst buses to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) on May 22. Piloted by founder Dale […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: emissions, Proterra, transit

New University Transportation Center Focuses on the Impact of Transportation Emissions on Human Health

March 1, 2017

A new University Transportation Center (UTC) will combine experts from two disciplines traditionally not known for research collaboration—transportation and public health. The Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy and Health (CAR-TEEH) will focus on the impact of transportation emissions on human health. The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) leads the CAR-TEEH consortium consisting […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CAR-TEEH, emissions, environment, public heath, transportation

TTI, Health Professionals Discover Benefits of Teamwork

November 2, 2015

Despite the different focuses of their respective fields, transportation researchers and human health professionals are discovering ways to work together on projects — and their new collaborations are creating even more opportunities never before considered. “We have a tendency to work within a vacuum, but we are learning that when we bring our separate expertise […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: emissions, health, pregnancy, research, vehicle

Research in All Kinds of Weather: TTI’s Environmental and Emissions Research Facility

June 1, 2015

When researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) need a place to test vehicle emissions, they don’t have to go far — one of the largest drive-in environmental chambers in the United States is housed at Texas A&M University’s Riverside Campus. But the Environmental and Emissions Research Facility (EERF) does more than just emissions […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 51, Number 2 Tagged With: emissions, environment, environment control, Environmental and Emissions Research Facility

As Traffic Jams Worsen, Commuters Allow Extra Time for Urgent Trips

March 1, 2013

As traffic congestion continues to worsen, trip times become more unpredictable. Researchers now have a way to measure that degree of unreliability.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 49, Number 1 Tagged With: emissions, Planning Time Index, PTI, Urban Mobility Report

General Motors Executive Describes Future of Emissions-Free, Safe Cars

February 23, 2012

Envisioning a world with all-electric cars that don’t crash, a General Motors (GM) official met with TTI employees and two Texas A&M University engineering departments Jan. 31 prior to a presentation he gave that evening at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center at the George Bush Presidential Library. Nady Boules, the director of GM’s Electrical and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: emissions, General Motors

TTI MOVES Emissions Estimates Forward

December 1, 2009

Change can be difficult…but it doesn’t have to be. Given that we live in the Information Age, change involving software can be the most painful of all — just ask Microsoft. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses software to enforce the Clean Air Act, which restricts certain pollutants found in urban areas with heavy traffic. […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 45, Number 4 Tagged With: Clean Air Act, emissions, EPA, MOVES

Mobile Emissions 101

March 1, 2005

The Methods Behind the Estimates The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) is at the forefront in developing methods and procedures to apply the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPAs) MOBILE emissions rate program to estimate on-road mobile source emissions in Texas. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the EPA to set limits on the amount of certain pollutants […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 41, Number 1 Tagged With: emissions, MOBILE, VMT

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