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Greg Winfree

Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation Appoints TTI Director Winfree as New Chairman

February 16, 2024

The Hon. Greg Winfree, agency director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), was recently appointed chairman of the Board of Directors for the Resilient Navigation and Timing (RNT) Foundation.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation

TTI Signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

October 17, 2023

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently signed a four-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, Mario Monsreal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, workforce development

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Appoints TTI Director Greg Winfree to Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity

September 6, 2023

In a move to advance the United States’ commitment to equitable and accessible transportation infrastructure, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has appointed The Honorable Gregory Winfree, director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT’s) Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ACTE, Greg Winfree, USDOT

TTI’s Youth Transportation Safety Program Awarded Two-Year Grant from Union Pacific Railroad

April 18, 2022

Union Pacific Railroad has awarded the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Youth Transportation Safety (YTS) Program a two-year grant to continue funding transportation safety initiatives tailored to educating young people. The grant serves as an extension of a three-year partnership between YTS and Union Pacific and will contribute tremendously to the expansion of programs and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, Robert Wunderlich, Russell Henk, Union Pacific, youth transportation safety

Winfree Column in March 2022 Traffic Technology International Now Available

March 23, 2022

In the March 2022 edition of Traffic Technology International, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director Greg Winfree’s Mode Warrior editorial discusses the recent increase in train robberies in the Los Angeles Basin. However, as he points out in the article, railroads are not the only “potential source for plunder… The problem exists across modes, so we […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, The Mode Warrior, Traffic Technology International

Winfree Appointed to National GPS Advisory Board

January 5, 2022

TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree was recently appointed to serve a two-year term on the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board by the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The advisory board provides advice on United States space-based PNT policy, planning, program management and funding profiles to a national […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree

U.S. Roads Meant to Last Decades – But Not Forever

May 27, 2021

By: Gregory Winfree and Zachary Grasley The subject of our nation’s infrastructure is once again prominent, both in the wake of the recent release of the American Society of Civil Engineers quadrennial report card on the state of America’s infrastructure and among our policymakers in Washington, D.C. The ASCE report card presents one of those […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, infrastructure, What We're Thinking

Winfree Column in December 2020 Traffic Technology International Now Available

December 15, 2020

In the December 2020 edition of Traffic Technology International, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director Greg Winfree outlines the transportation research challenges we face in a post-COVID world. Winfree’s Mode Warrior editorial invites the public to review and comment upon a white paper he and TTI Assistant Director Joe Zietsman authored that “outlines nine factors to […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, Joe Zietsman, The Mode Warrior, Traffic Technology International

Federal Road Funding Nearly Expired — Let’s Focus Before the Next Deadline

October 12, 2020

By Greg Winfree Congress really has its hands full these days, with urgent priorities summoning attention from all directions. Pandemic relief. The census on a tighter schedule. Widespread social unrest. Election season. As if that wasn’t enough, with seemingly no room left on their full plate, national leaders were coming up on a dead end […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: coronavirus, economics, FAST Act, Greg Winfree, What We're Thinking

TTI Advisory Council Meeting Goes Virtual

September 29, 2020

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Advisory Council held its first ever virtual annual meeting Sept. 22. The meeting is normally a two-day, in-person affair and was originally scheduled for the spring timeframe, but due to continued COVID-related restrictions, TTI leadership decided to host the meeting virtually. The meeting commenced with a welcome and introductions […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Advisory Council, COVID-19, Greg Winfree, John Sharp

Winfree, Das Featured in Traffic Technology International

September 14, 2020

The September 2020 issue of Traffic Technology International features Texas A&M Transportation Institute Agency Director Greg Winfree and Assistant Research Scientist Subasish Das. Das was interviewed for a story on using artificial intelligence to predict exactly where and when crashes will occur so that road authorities can prioritize funding for safety improvements in a targeted […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: artificial intelligence, CAV, connected transportation, Greg Winfree, Subasish Das, Traffic Technology International

Winfree Featured in Bloomberg CityLab Article

August 12, 2020

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Agency Director Greg Winfree was featured as a contributor in a recently-published story on Bloomberg CityLab. “The Life-Saving Car Technology No One Wants” explores why safety features that would make vehicles far less lethal to pedestrians exist right now, but are not required. Read the full article on Bloomberg CityLab

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, human factors, safety

For Post-COVID Transportation, We Really Can’t Settle for “Normal”

June 16, 2020

By Gregory Winfree and Joe Zietsman, Texas A&M Transportation Institute No sooner did America begin to crave a return to normal than did many of us start thinking that maybe normal wasn’t the best we could do. And that is certainly true when it comes to the issue of how best to move people and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: COVID-19, Greg Winfree, Joe Zietsman, What We're Thinking

Car Crashes Are Down. Working From Home Keeps Us Safe On the Road

April 15, 2020

By Gregory Winfree No one yet knows how many Americans will die this year from COVID-19. But here’s a pretty safe bet on the number who will die in car crashes: Likely not as many as last year. Call it an unintended benefit of widespread stay-at-home orders designed to fight the spread of the coronavirus. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, crashes, Greg Winfree, safety, What We're Thinking

Winfree Column in March/April 2020 Traffic Technology International Now Available

March 27, 2020

In the March/April 2020 edition of Traffic Technology International, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director Greg Winfree outlines the rise of COVID-19 in the world and the impact our global transportation system plays in the spread of the virus. “Transportation tech infrastructure and policy can help prevent–rather than promote–the spread of the disease,” notes Winfree in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Greg Winfree, The Mode Warrior, Traffic Technology International

Winfree Latest Column in Traffic Technology International Now Available

February 26, 2020

In the latest edition of Traffic Technology International, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director Greg Winfree explains why protecting the 5.9 GHz band in the United States is so important. The editorial, 5.9 GHz spectrum is critical for safe roads and should be protected, focuses on the importance of preserving the 5.9 GHz DSRC band for […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: connected transportation, Greg Winfree, Traffic Technology International

Winfree Emphasizes Timing as Key to the Future of Transportation in GRIDSMART’s #talkITS Magazine Article

November 19, 2019

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Agency Director Greg Winfree explores the outer reaches of tomorrow’s transportation system — along with the tools and resources needed to get there — in a recent #talkITS magazine article. His article, “Timing is Everything: Technology, education, and tomorrow’s transportation workforce,” was published in the Fall 2019 issue of the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, infrastructure, ITS, talkITS

Our Concept of Mobility is Transforming — But 3 Roadway Realities Are Unchanged

November 15, 2019

By Gregory Winfree This is not your grandfather’s mobility landscape. Not even your father’s. Not even close. Thanks to the sharing economy, we have more here-to-there options today than we would have dared to imagine a decade ago. And transportation today depends almost as much on smartphones as it does on steering wheels. How we […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, mobility, What We're Thinking

Safer Roads or Faster Movie Downloads? Let’s Choose Wisely

November 12, 2019

By Gregory Winfree and Larry Head The next big decision may have nothing to do with immigration or health care. Instead, it may be about either faster movie downloads or safer roads. The Federal Communications Commission is reconsidering whether an important slice of the radio spectrum should be offered for expanded Wi-Fi use, or if […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CAV, connected transportation, Greg Winfree, What We're Thinking

Winfree Speaks to TTI, UT Austin Collaboration in GPS World Magazine Article

November 5, 2019

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Agency Director Greg Winfree comments on TTI’s collaborative partnership with The University of Texas at Austin in a recent GPS World magazine article. Winfree also serves as a board member for the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. The Oct. 12 groundbreaking of the Bush Combat Development Complex at The Texas […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bush Combat Development Complex, GPS World, Greg Winfree, RELLIS Campus

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