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You are here: Home / Archives for roadside safety

roadside safety

Overcoming Barriers: Motorcycle Roadside Safety

March 1, 2023

Although motorcyclists make up only 3 percent of all registered vehicles, motorcyclists accounted for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities in 2020 in the United States. As these numbers have risen over the years, several state departments of transportation (DOTs) are taking matters into their own hands to address these related issues. In partnership with […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 59, Number 1 Tagged With: barriers, motorcycle safety, roadside safety, roadway design, safety

Overcoming Barriers: Motorcycle Roadside Safety

February 3, 2023

Although motorcyclists make up only 3 percent of all registered vehicles, in 2020, motorcyclists accounted for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States. As these numbers have risen over the years, several state DOTs are taking matters into their own hands to address these issues. In partnership with the Texas Department of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: motorcyclist impacts, roadside safety, safety

The TxDOT/TTI Team: Making Roadside Safety History

September 1, 2016

As the temperature hovered around 100 degrees on August 9, 2016, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) roadside safety device experts and a Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) transportation engineer gathered on a runway at the Texas A&M University RELLIS Campus. They were hoping to witness a historic crash test under TxDOT’s Roadside Safety Device Crash-Testing […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 52, Number 3 Tagged With: crash test simulation, crash testing, roadside safety, short-radius guardrail, sign-post mount

TTI Becoming Known for Expertise in Retrofitting Bridges

December 1, 2014

Transportation research often focuses on finding safer and more efficient ways of doing things. A case in point is older bridges. Some features may need to be modernized to make older bridges safer and more reliable. “The nation’s infrastructure is wearing out,” says William Williams, an associate research engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 50, Number 4 Tagged With: bridge barrier, crash testing, design, infrastructure, retrofit, roadside safety

Another TTI First: Broadcasting Crash Tests

October 4, 2012

On Sept. 26, for the first time in Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) history, a crash test at TTI’s Proving Grounds was broadcast live via the Internet to clients and stakeholders across the country. Providing live streaming crash tests was the brainchild of Dean Alberson, assistant agency director and manager of the TTI Crashworthy Structures […]

Filed Under: MyTTI News, News Tagged With: crash testing, design, infrastructure, NCHRP, retaining wall, roadside safety, safety, semi-truck, tractor-trailer

TTI Employees Honored for Patents

May 16, 2012

Members of TTI’s Roadside Safety and Physical Security Division were honored ­­­last month by The Texas A&M University System Office of Technology Commercialization for a highway safety product patent issued in 2011. Patent number US 7,883,075 B2 is for a new guardrail end terminal they designed and tested. The product will soon be manufactured by […]

Filed Under: MyTTI News, News Tagged With: physical security, roadside safety, soft stop guardrail, TTI patents

Capitol Staff Members Briefed on High-Priority Research Initiatives

February 28, 2012

More than a dozen staff members representing various state legislators and committees visited TTI on February 21 to hear updates on some of the Institute’s high-priority efforts. The program lineup began with an overview of TTI by Agency Director Dennis Christiansen. Other key research area presentations by TTI personnel included: Steve Roop provided a status […]

Filed Under: MyTTI News, News Tagged With: Center for Transportation Safety, freight shuttle, My35, physical security, roadside safety, T.R.E.N.D.S., Visibility Research Laboratory

TTI Research Makes the Roadside Safer

September 1, 2011

The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) has acquired a computer-modeling scanning system that ensures the Institute’s stature as one of the premier crash-testing facilities in the world.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 47, Number 3 Tagged With: ET2000, FARO Edge, roadside safety, SLIP SAFE breakaway system

Crash Survivor Credits TTI’s Technology for Saving His Life

August 5, 2011

If you drive much around Texas or around the country, there is no doubt you have seen the ET-2000 in use on guardrails. Watch this testimonial of a roadside crash survivor, Donny Ohana, and one of the inventors of this TTI-developed technology, Hayes Ross, that Ohana says saved his life. For more information about TTI’s […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: crash testing, roadside safety

Celebrating 60 Years of Innovation: A history of saving lives, time and resources

September 1, 2010

Celebrating 60 Years of Innovation: A history of saving lives, time and resources The original 1950 charter of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), given by the Texas A&M Board of Directors, charged the Institute with enlisting the broad resources of the college in all forms of transportation research, while giving students the opportunity to study […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 46, Number 3 Tagged With: economics, freight movement, human factors, mobility, roadside safety, TTI Directors

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