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Brydia Receives Partner of Excellence Award from Texas A&M Texas A&M University’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISEN) has recognized TTI Senior Research Scientist Bob Brydia for his ongoing collaboration with the department. Brydia was presented the Partner of Excellence Award April 13 and appointed an ISEN adjunct professor of practice. “Over the last […]
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Henk Appointed Chair of the Texas Teen Safe Driving Coalition TTI Senior Research Engineer Russell Henk has been named chairperson of Texas’ Teen Safe Driving Coalition — a partnership led by the National Safety Council. Henk manages TTI’s Youth Transportation Safety Program and created the award-winning Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) program in 2002. […]
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TTI Graduate Student Wins Fellowship Award TTI Associate Research Scientist Bryan Wilson was recently awarded the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. (ASNT) Fellowship Award for proposed research titled Ground Penetrating Radar as a Quality Assurance Tool in Hot-Mix Asphalt Road Construction. The ASNT Fellowship Award helps graduate students defray costs of post-graduate research in […]
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TTI, Aruba Partner to Improve Bus Riding Experience On July 20, TTI and Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced an exploratory transportation project to optimize traffic flows for bus ridership and use data analytics to improve navigation at Texas A&M University through Aruba Wireless and Data Analytics. Texas A&M is one of the largest […]
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Safe-D, ATLAS Internship Program Under Way at TTI Nine undergraduate students from various backgrounds with an interest in transportation safety have been selected for a unique, 10-week summer internship with TTI as part of the Advancing Transportation Leadership and Safety (ATLAS) and Safety Through Disruption (Safe-D) University Transportation Centers. “Safe-D research projects over the next […]
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TTI Encourages Young Women to Pursue STEM Careers On Saturday, Feb. 25, more than 6,000 girls ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade attended “Girl Day 2017” hosted by the Women in Engineering Program, part of The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering. TTI Research Scientist Steven Polunsky volunteered at the event and […]
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Hall of Honor Inducts Dwight D. Eisenhower Former President Dwight David Eisenhower was inducted into the Texas Transportation Hall of Honor Dec. 6 in a ceremony at the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site in Denison, Texas. Eisenhower’s induction recognizes his leadership in creating the U.S. Interstate Highway System, which is 60 years old this year. […]
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Goodin Represents TRB at Capitol Hill AV/CV Roundtable On June 22, Ginger Goodin, director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, helped lead a broad discussion of policy issues that will help shape the federal government’s role in the development of automated and connected vehicles (AV/CVs). Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL) hosted the event in Washington, D.C. […]
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NHTSA’s Rosekind Addresses TTI’s Annual Traffic Safety Conference NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind was the keynote speaker for TTI’s Traffic Safety Conference. Advanced vehicle technologies represent a “safety innovation revolution,” according to Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Rosekind met with TTI leaders and researchers and was keynote speaker for the […]
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TTI’s Katie Turnbull Named Texas A&M Regents Fellow TTI Executive Associate Director Katie Turnbull was honored with the Regents Fellow Service Award during The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Reception and Dinner Feb. 10. The Regents Fellow Service Award Program began in 1998 to recognize research professionals whose exemplary professional service has contributed […]
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Hudson Awarded Grant to Study the Unintended Highway Pedestrian The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has selected TTI to conduct a one-year project on reducing the number of motor-vehicle-related pedestrian fatalities in Texas. Project manager and TTI Associate Researcher Joan Hudson has been awarded the one-year project titled The Unintended Highway Pedestrian — What Would […]
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Carlson Receives Eldon J. Yoder Memorial Award TTI Senior Research Engineer Paul Carlson was recently awarded the Transportation Research Board Eldon J. Yoder Memorial Award. The award was presented during the 11th International Conference on Low-Volume Roads in Pittsburgh, Penn., held July 12–15. Carlson won the award for the research paper “Can Traffic Signs Be […]
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Former TTI Research Associate Becomes NTSB Member A former TTI research associate has been sworn in as the newest member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, who worked at TTI from 1997 to 2000, was sworn in March 23 following her presidential nomination and congressional approval. Dinh-Zarr was then designated as […]
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Crawford Elected as ITE Texas District Director TTI Associate Research Engineer Jason Crawford was recently elected to serve as the Texas District director of the Institute of Transportation Engineer (ITE) International Board of Direction. The term is from Jan. 1, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2017. ITE is an international educational and scientific association of transportation […]
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Texas Teen Survey Reveals Shift in Impaired-Driving Cause In 2012 — for the first time since its creation more than 20 years ago — the Texas Secondary School Survey found that more high school seniors reported driving drug impaired than those who reported driving alcohol impaired. The survey has been conducted in Texas since 1990 […]
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TTI Earns Telly Award for Documentary TTI and the Texas Lyceum were jointly honored with a 2014 Telly Award for the documentary Decision Time. The production highlights the Lyceum’s 2013 Public Conference on Texas Infrastructure held in Austin, Texas, in April 2013. The conference encouraged leaders from across the state to discuss complex issues and […]
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Briaud Elected President of FedIGS Jean-Louis Briaud, the Buchanan Chair of the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and manager of TTI’s Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Program, has been elected president of the Federation of International Geo-engineering Societies (FedIGS). The four-year term lasts through 2018. FedIGS was formed 10 years ago in an […]
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Carlson Honored with Regents Fellow Service Award The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has presented Paul Carlson, research engineer and head of TTI‘s Operations and Design Division, with the Regents Fellow Service Award. The award is presented annually “to recognize and honor service, extension and research professionals who have provided exemplary professional service […]
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SWUTC Director Dock Burke Retires After a 45-year career with TTI, Senior Research Scientist Dock Burke retired Aug. 31, 2013. Since 1988, Burke has served as director of a consortium of universities known as the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC). During his career, Burke served as principal or co-principal investigator on 55 individual research […]