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Transportation Leaders Discuss the Future of Technological Innovations at 2022 Transportation Technology Conference

October 5, 2022

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the 2022 Texas A&M Transportation Technology Conference Sept. 15–16 in partnership with The Texas A&M University System, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M Engineering and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. The event — sponsored by HNTB, Alliance Texas Mobility Innovation Zone, 3M and Cavnue — highlighted innovative projects […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Big Data, mobility, safety, Technology, Texas A&M Transportation Technology Conference

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

Just How Effective Are Peak-Hour Lanes?

September 1, 2022

The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the United States. With a population of over 7.5 million people — and growing — the area has rapidly become a desirable place for families and businesses to locate to over the last decade. Alongside the population and economic growth, traffic […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 3 Tagged With: mobility, Operations, peak-hour lanes

Evaluating Road Types Improves Safety, Mobility in Rural Areas

June 1, 2022

Rural roadways often have a high number of crashes, especially severe crashes. To help decrease that number, researchers have focused safety and mobility studies on rural areas that experience increased truck traffic and road usage during certain economic booms — like oil booms. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Odessa District experienced an oil boom […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 2 Tagged With: infrastructure, mobility, roadway design, safety

Car Makers Join Researchers to Aid Flow through Traffic Signals

June 1, 2022

In theory, the best way to maximize traffic flow along busy urban streets is to coordinate the series of traffic signals that drivers encounter. In practice, that’s far easier said than done. But with the completion of recent research supported by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), traffic engineers are a big step closer to […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 2 Tagged With: Connected Vehicles, infrastructure, mobility, Operations, Signalized Intersections

The Future Is Now: The Evolution of Aviation in Urban Environments — Urban Air Mobility Advisory Committee Formed to Identify Policy

March 1, 2022

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones as they are commonly referred to, can carry out many impressive tasks, such as capturing stunning visual images, delivering packages, or carrying out complex military operations. While the use of UAVs is not new, their widespread use and seemingly unlimited potential in urban and rural areas have necessitated the […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 1 Tagged With: aviation transportation system, mobility, UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles

Crowdsourced Data Enhance Border Trip Insights in CIITR Report

March 1, 2022

Getting accurate, continuous travel information can be difficult for binational metropolitan regions like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. As a result, international cross-border trips often go underrepresented in travel demand and behavior analysis studies. This can be caused by a number of factors, including time and budget limits and boundary issues associated with […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 58, Number 1 Tagged With: cross-border trips, crowdsourced data, mobility, travel behavior, travel demand

CIITR Expands Transit Capacity, QoS Guidance to Border Applications

February 28, 2022

In a recent research project, a team from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research (CIITR) addresses unique needs of border transit to inform the next edition of the Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual (TCQSM). Currently in its third edition, the manual gives guidance for transit capacity and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: border crossing, mobility, Operations, transit

To the Skies and Beyond! CIITR Conducts Research on Aerial, Satellite Imagery of Border Crossings

February 11, 2022

Research recently completed by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research (CIITR) demonstrated the potential usefulness of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and satellite images, combined with artificial intelligence (AI), for improving accuracy of border travel time estimates in extreme queuing conditions. The land ports of entry (LPOEs) at the U.S.–Mexico […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: border crossing, Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research, 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

Urban Mobility Report 2021 – Congestion was Flattened in 2020: COVID-19 Made Traffic Congestion Disappear but Not for Long

September 1, 2021

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: mobility, Urban Mobility Report

Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Traffic Hiatus from COVID-19 Was Historic…and Brief

September 1, 2021

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 of spring 2020, daily commuter traffic dropped by almost half compared to […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: COVID-19, mobility, traffic congestion, Urban Mobility Report

Pandemic Showed Traffic Can Be Cut Without New Roads

July 14, 2021

By Tim Lomax, David Schrank, and Bill Eisele COVID-19’s impact on roadway traffic was deep and widespread, and it was entirely predictable given the shutdowns that occurred. What’s equally clear, is the lesson we can draw from our experience, particularly now, as American infrastructure needs are once again top of mind. That lesson is: the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bill Eisele, David Schrank, mobility, Tim Lomax, What We're Thinking

TTI, Hillwood Announce Research Partnership

July 7, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) entered into an agreement with Hillwood as AllianceTexas’ official Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) research partner. Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development is located next to the world’s first dedicated industrial airport, Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The partnership will leverage the experience and expertise of TTI’s nationally recognized team of researchers and forward-thinkers […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AllianceTexas, Hillwood, mobility

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

NICR-Sponsored Study Evaluates Managed Lane Pricing Methods — Researchers Create New Measures for Comparing Pricing Strategies

June 1, 2021

Optimizing traffic flow is one goal of transportation agencies looking to improve mobility for transportation system users. Doing so reduces congestion, which not only optimizes roadway operations but also gets folks where they’re going faster while often improving safety. Managed lanes represent one method for achieving this, and many states have implemented them. Managed lanes […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 2 Tagged With: managed lanes, mobility, NICR, Operations

TTI’s Hansen Helps Capital Metro Shape Its Microtransit Service Standards

May 10, 2021

At the Apr. 26 Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Capital Metro) Board of Directors meeting based in Austin, Texas, Capital Metro adopted microtransit service standards based on research led by TTI Associate Research Scientist Todd Hansen. A relatively new term in the transit industry, microtransit services focus on meeting on-demand trip requests through dynamic routing technology, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Capital Metro, mobility, transit

TTI, Neology, Inc., Extend Research Partnership to Support Mobility Innovation

March 11, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and Neology, Inc., recently completed the Neology Transportation Research Center (TRC) and extended their long-term master research agreement for an additional five years, with an optional five-year extension. The new facilities will help accelerate the vision for smart cities and safer communities by advancing next-generation technologies in the mobility […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: connected transportation, mobility, Neology, RELLIS Campus, TTI Proving Ground

Lomax to Participate in Mobility and the Pandemic Webinar

November 5, 2020

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Research Fellow Tim Lomax will participate in a roundtable discussion webinar on November 10, to discuss research on mobility during the pandemic. This co-organized webinar-series, Mobility & the Pandemic – Studies from Germany and the U.S., is the first webinar session between TTI and The German Aerospace Center — Deutsches […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: mobility, Tim Lomax, webinar

COVID-19 Spotlights Patient Transport Delays At the Border, But We Can Slash Wait Times

September 21, 2020

By David Salgado and Rafael Aldrete There aren’t many worse places to be than in the back of an ambulance. But being in the back of an ambulance in critical condition at a congested U.S.-Mexico border crossing is surely one of those places. Worse yet, being in a car instead of an ambulance – by […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: border crossing, coronavirus, COVID-19, mobility, What We're Thinking

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