The National Highway Safety Administration published a Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) report, State of Knowledge and Practice for Using Automated License Plate Readers for Traffic Safety Purposes, Apr. 1, 2021, in the National Transportation Library. The authors include TTI Associate Research Scientist Ben Ettelman, TTI Associate Research Scientist Laura Higgins, TTI Center for Alcohol […]
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TTI’s Zmud Helps Author Policy Brief on Infrastructures and Robomobility
TTI Senior Research Scientist Johanna Zmud helped author the recently published policy brief “Defining the Role of Automated Transportation Infrastructure in Shaping Sociotechnical Systems” in the Think20 (T20) Task Force publication Infrastructure Investment and Financing. T20 is an engagement group comprised of regional and international think tanks serving to research and generate policy proposals on […]
Turnbull, Zmud Published in TR News
Texas A&M Transportation Institute Executive Associate Director Katie Turnbull and Senior Research Scientist Johanna Zmud were published in the September/October issue of TR News, TRB’s bimonthly magazine. Turnbull’s article, “That Was Then, This Is Now, Tomorrow Will Be Amazing!,” celebrates the TRB Centennial by taking a look at what life was like in 1920, where […]
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 […]
Shared Mopeds Off to a Good Start in Austin, TX, Unlike Ride-Hailing and E-Scooters
By Johanna Zmud Deploying Revel mopeds has already been a favorable experience compared to other mobility experiments, in-part due to the company’s willingness to share trip data. Shared sit-down scooters have arrived on Austin streets, the first in Texas after starting in New York and Washington, DC. Already, the experience differs favorably to other mobility […]
The Biggest Questions Facing E-Scooters
By Johanna Zmud Cities across the U.S. have been riding the e-scooter craze for more than a year, so it’s a good time to ask some emerging questions in the midst of urban disturbance. As we do, let’s remember that the first automobiles were also disruptive when they hit busy streets already bedeviled by the […]
TTI Senior Research Scientist Johanna Zmud Appears on The Mobility Podcast
Johanna Zmud is a Senior Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), where she focuses on the social influence of technology. She heads up TTI’s multimodal planning division, where her research focuses on changing technology, technological development and public policymaking. Recently she was featured on The Mobility Podcast where she discussed the social […]
Self-Driving Cars: Let’s Master Walking Before We Try to Run
By Johanna Zmud Self-driving cars, along with other recent innovations like ride-hailing and electric scooters, are pushing the idea of disruptive mobility into our daily experience. But as business models go, disruption doesn’t always work out so well. Just ask the folks at scooter-sharing company Bird. In December, the company left an early Holiday surprise […]
Uber and Lyft Are Snatching Passengers From Public Transportation
By Johanna Zmud Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) are putting a dent in public transit use. And that matters to you, even if you never hail a car or board a bus. TNCs have been an established fixture in urban transportation landscapes for only a few years, so their impacts on other mobility modes have been […]
Even Self-Driving Cars Need Driver Education
By Johanna Zmud Texas A&M Transportation Institute What do self-driving cars and teenage drivers have in common? Experience. Or, more accurately, a lack of experience. Teenage drivers – novice drivers of any age, actually – begin with little knowledge of how to actually operate a car’s controls, and how to handle various quirks of the […]
Study Suggests Ride-Hailing Customers Will Help to Shape Self-driving Car Use Patterns
The latest research on consumer attitudes of automated travel suggests that frequent users of ride-hailing services are more likely to also use self-driving cars as they become more available, though many aren’t necessarily planning to own one. The findings are instructive for emerging industries, researchers say, because the size of the ride-hailing market in a […]
Zmud Selected as Lifetime NRC ‘National Associate’
TTI Senior Research Scientist Johanna Zmud has been selected as a National Associate of the National Research Council. Zmud was selected as a member of the 2016 Class of National Associates — which includes 8 other members — for her voluntary “extraordinary service” to the Transportation Research Board (TRB). “National Associate” is an honorary, lifetime […]
TTI’s Zmud Talks Consumer Acceptance of Automated Vehicles at SXSW®
In the past, the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference held few sessions related to transportation. This year conference planners created the Intelligent Future event track that features a variety of experts on connected and automated vehicles (CV/AV). One of those experts is Johanna Zmud, senior research scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Zmud […]
Study Suggests Austin Residents are Evenly Split on Using Self-driving Cars
How likely might Austin-area residents be to use a self-driving vehicle, which could be on Texas roadways within several years? In a recent TTI study sponsored by the Transportation Policy Research Center, 50 percent of those interviewed said yes to the idea, and 50 percent said no, each group offering a variety of reasons for […]
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