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Paul Carlson

TTI Provides Guidance for Overhead Sign Lighting

September 22, 2016

One of the major emerging technologies in highway safety has been the improvement of the types of retroreflectivity sheeting used on overhead signs on roadways. Modern signs are very efficient at returning light back to the driver, creating a much safer nighttime driving environment. Because of this, many departments of transportation are opting to remove […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: overhead sign, Paul Carlson, retroreflectivity, roadway lighting

National Contest Challenges Transportation Students to Improve Roadway Safety

May 2, 2016

The American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) today announced a “Traffic Control Device Challenge” in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board (TRB), a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The challenge will focus on how America’s roadway system must change to accommodate both human and “machine” […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: American Traffic Safety Services Association, Paul Carlson, roadway, safety, Traffic Control Device Challenge

Carlson One of Five Experts Asked to Contribute at FHWA Workshop on Visibility

December 4, 2015

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently published a summary report, Breakthroughs in Vision and Visibility for Highway Safety. The report documents the workshop, held August 13-14, 2014, at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia. Sponsored by FHWA’s Office of Safety Research and Development and the Office of Safety—with support from the Exploratory Advanced Research […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: highway, Paul Carlson, safety, transportation, visibility

Carlson Receives Eldon J. Yoder Memorial Award

August 21, 2015

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (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, PA, on July 12–15. Carlson won the award for the research paper “Can Traffic Signs Be too Bright […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Eldon J. Yoder Memorial Award, Paul Carlson, Transportation Research Board

Carlson Attends FHWA Visibility Workshop

September 15, 2014

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Paul Carlson recently attended a workshop in McLean, VA, that focused on roadway visibility. The workshop, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), was titled “Breakthroughs in Vision and Visibility for Highway Safety” and was held August 13–14. According to Carlson, the workshop was a good opportunity […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Paul Carlson, roadway visibility, visibility workshop

Texas A&M System Engineers Collaborate at National Innovation Summit

July 31, 2014

Engineering professionals throughout the Texas A&M University (TAMU) System met in Washington, D.C., at the 3rd annual National Innovation Summit and Showcase, June 16–18. The National Innovation Summit is the world’s largest showcase of industry-vetted new technologies that are ready for commercialization; the summit is in support of the White House and Congressional call for innovation […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Dean Alberson, National Innovation Summit, Paul Carlson, TAMU engineering

TTI Researchers Identify Elusive Relationship Between Safety and Pavement Marking Brightness

April 30, 2014

In what is described as a key breakthrough regarding safer nighttime driving, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers have identified a technique for developing safety-based retroreflectivity criteria for pavement markings. The technique, described in a Transportation Research Board paper submitted by TTI Senior Research Engineer Paul Carlson and TTI Associate Research Scientist Raul Avelar, quantifies […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Paul Carlson, retroreflectivity, Transportation Research Board

Rural Roadway Signage: When Brighter Is Not Always Better

February 26, 2014

Ever since agencies started using uniform traffic signs, the conventional thinking concerning nighttime visibility is that brighter is better. But a recent Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) research project revealed that signs along rural highways can be so bright that they cause disability glare to the point of reduced hazard detection distances, which can be […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Paul Carlson, retroreflectivity, rural road signage

Carlson Honored with Regents Fellow Service Award

February 13, 2014

Paul Carlson, Ph.D., P.E., research engineer and head of the Operations and Design Division at TTI, has been presented with the Regents Fellow Service Award from the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. The award honors professionals in the eight A&M System agriculture and engineering agencies and is presented annually “to recognize and honor service, […]

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TTI Hosts Infrastructure Maintenance Symposium

September 24, 2013

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute recently hosted DBi Services’ 9th annual Infrastructure Maintenance Symposium. The symposium was held August 27–28 and showcased the latest developments and technologies in the fields of infrastructure maintenance, operations and management. The two-day symposium featured educational breakout sessions on topics that focused on the current state-of-the-practice in transportation infrastructure maintenance. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: DBi Services, Infrastructure Maintenance Symposium, Paul Carlson

New Study Shines Light on Pavement Markings and Safety

May 1, 2013

When you drive at night and your headlights illuminate a lane marking, it makes you feel safer, right? After all, bright pavement markings are designed to help you stay in your lane and prevent you from running off the roadway. Called retroreflectivity, special materials in edge lines and lane lines create the brightness. With age […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Paul Carlson, pavement markings, retroreflectivity, visibility, Visibility Research Laboratory

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