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U in the Driver Seat Holds First In-Person Symposium Since 2019

May 17, 2022

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) U in the Driver Seat (UDS) education and outreach program held its 2022 UDS Symposium in Austin, Texas, April 29–30. With the support of State Farm, the Texas Department of Transportation, and Union Pacific Railroad, the symposium was available at no cost to college-aged students representing different colleges across […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bicycle safety, crash, Lisa Minjares-Kyle, pedestrian safety, safety, school awards, symposium, U in the Driver Seat, UDS, UDS awards

Caution: Navigation Tools Could Steer Drivers to Shortest, But Not Safest Route

February 22, 2022

Time for a road trip. You punch the destination into your GPS and choose the suggested route. But is this shortest route the safest? Not necessarily, according to Texas A&M University researchers. Dr. Dominique Lord and Dr. Soheil Sohrabi, with the help of funding from the A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M, designed a […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: GPS, safety

CIITR’s Jason Wu Applies LiDAR Sensors to Safety, Traffic Monitoring

February 18, 2022

Managing high traffic at border crossings necessitates secure, efficient technologies. Sensors monitor vehicles entering and exiting the queue and relay that information to a traffic management center. While there are often limitations with video cameras and radar sensors, 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors — such as those installed in self-driving cars — can […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: border, Center for International Intelligent Transportation Research, CIITR, LIDAR, safety

TTI, TxDOT Win National Safety Award: “Safer by Design” Tool Aims to Save Lives on Texas Rural Roadways

December 1, 2021

The Roadway Safety Foundation honored the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with a 2021 National Roadway Safety Award Oct. 6. The foundation lauded the TxDOT-sponsored, TTI-developed “Safer by Design” tool for use by roadway designers to assess the safety characteristics of rural highway design. Nearly 4,000 people died […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 4 Tagged With: award, design, roadway safety, safety

TTI’s Beverly Kuhn Co-Leads a STEM Workshop at the 2021 AISES National Conference

October 28, 2021

With support from the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE’s) Arizona Section and Mountain District, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Beverly Kuhn co-led an activity during The Boeing Company’s Sept. 22 STEM Day event as part of the 2021 American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference at the Phoenix Convention Center. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Beverly Kuhn, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Operations, planning, safety

Working Together: 2021 Virtual Texas Pedestrian Forum Takes a Multidisciplinary Approach to Address Pedestrian Safety

October 25, 2021

For the second year in a row, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the virtual Texas Pedestrian Safety Forum Aug. 12, 2021. Supported by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety (CTS), the forum helped more than 430 people learn more about how we can make roadways safer for […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, Texas Pedestrian Safety Forum

TTI, TxDOT Win National Safety Award

October 8, 2021

“Safer by Design” Tool Aims to Save Lives on Texas Rural Roadways The Roadway Safety Foundation has honored the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with a 2021 National Roadway Safety Award. The foundation lauded the TxDOT-sponsored, TTI-developed “Safer by Design” tool, a user-friendly innovation roadway designers can use […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: award, National Roadway Safety Award, Roadway Safety Foundation, rural roadway, Safer by Design, safety

TTI’s Fitzpatrick Co-Authors NCHRP User Guide on Setting Posted Speed Limits

September 13, 2021

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Kay Fitzpatrick led the team that wrote the recently published National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 966, Posted Speed Limit Setting Procedure and Tool: User Guide. Fitzpatrick’s co-authors include Subasish Das, associate research scientist, and Michael P. Pratt, assistant research engineer, both in TTI’s Roadway […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Kay Fitzpatrick, NCHRP, safety

A Tale of Two Problems: 2021 Virtual Traffic Safety Conference Addresses COVID-19’s Impact on Traffic Safety Fatalities

September 1, 2021

For the second year in a row, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the virtual Traffic Safety Conference, held July 14–16, 2021. Supported by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the event focused on high-priority safety issues and innovative solutions to end the streak of daily fatal crashes in Texas. This year’s conference also […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: COVID-19, safety, traffic safety conference

In the Fight: TTI, Team Study How Transportation Professionals Can Help End Human Trafficking

September 1, 2021

John Habermann, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) research engineer, recently coauthored the article “The Contribution of State and Local DOTs to Disrupting Human Trafficking” in the June 2021 issue of the ITE Journal published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers. The publication reaches nearly 16,000 subscribers. The article defines human trafficking as the “recruitment, harboring, […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: education, human trafficking, Public Transportation, safety

Learning Something New at the 2021 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference

September 1, 2021

With 384 attendees this year, the fifth annual 2021 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference helped child passenger safety technicians (CPSTs) stay informed on the latest research and best practices aimed at keeping our most precious cargo safe when traveling. The conference also provided participants with continuing education credits for CPST recertification. Sponsored by the Texas […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 3 Tagged With: safety, Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference

Does Your Teen Text While Driving? Now There’s An App For That.

September 1, 2021

By Russell Henk What we’re learning about the battle against the coronavirus could go a long way in helping us thwart vehicle crashes. It’s a simple lesson: Prevention – in the form of personal responsibility – can help us contain the public health crisis of COVID-19, and it can do the same with the epidemic […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: human interaction, Russell Henk, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat, What We're Thinking

Wunderlich Quoted in USA Today on the Need to Improve Rural Road Safety

August 24, 2021

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Robert Wunderlich is featured in a USA Today story (source: Pew/Stateline), “Deadly crashes on rural roads prompt new safety efforts,” wherein he discusses building safety into road projects from the get-go to help prevent traffic crashes. Simple engineering changes at the design stage — such as rumble […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: infrastructure, Robert Wunderlich, safety

Child Passenger Safety Technicians Get Inspired (and Learn Something, Too!) at 2021 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference

August 13, 2021

The fifth annual 2021 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference was held virtually June 29–July 1, 2021. Sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation, the conference was organized by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. With 384 attendees this year, the conference helped child passenger safety technicians (CPSTs) stay […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference

Guo-Led Team Advances as Finalist in ITE Vision Zero Design Sandbox Competition

June 15, 2021

Led by Xiaoyu “Sky” Guo, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) engineering graduate student worker, the Aggie Vision team is one of two student finalists for the second annual Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Vision Zero Design Sandbox Competition. The team includes Sruthi Ashraf, TTI engineering graduate student worker; Zihao Li, TTI graduate research assistant; Chaolun […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Institute of Transportation Engineers, ITE, safety, Texas A&M College of Engineering

TTI’s Khodadadi Publishes Article on Safety Performance Functions for Non-Federal Aid System Roads

June 3, 2021

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Graduate Research Assistant Ali Khodadadi recently published the article “Application of Different Negative Binominal Parameterizations to Develop Safety Performance Functions for Non-Federal Aid System Roads” in volume 156 (June 2021) of Accident Analysis & Prevention. The authors also include Subasish Das, TTI assistant research scientist; Yingfeng Li, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Safe-D University Transportation Center, safety, Texas A&M Engineering

TTI Researchers Study Phone Use Behavior on Roadways

June 2, 2021

Researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Texas A&M University investigated the relationship between phone use behavior and road geometrics determining that using a phone while driving is more than just a self-choice. The combination and presence of a shoulder, median, higher speed limit and extra lanes could encourage more phone use while driving. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: planning, safety

Teens in the Driver Seat® Holds 12th Annual Summit: Month-Long Gathering Honors Student Leaders Advocating Teen Driver Safety

June 1, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) award-winning Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) program recognized teen advocates as champions of young driver safety at the 2021 TDS Safe Driving Summit held in May. Second only to teen suicide, car crashes kill more teens in the United States aged 15 to 18 than any other cause. […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 2 Tagged With: safety, Teens in the Driver Seat Summit

Shaking Up the System: Safe-D Looks at How Disruptive Technologies Can Improve Roadway Safety

June 1, 2021

Funded through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Center (UTC) Program, the Safety through Disruption (Safe-D) UTC is led by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). In partnership with San Diego State University and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), center researchers endeavor to maximize the potential safety benefits of disruptive technologies through targeted […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 57, Number 2 Tagged With: child safety seat, connected vehicle, roadway safety, Safe-D University Transportation Center, safety

TTI Study Produces Insights on the Use of Automated License Plate Readers for Traffic Safety Purposes

May 12, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: automatic license plate reader, Johanna Zmud, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, safety

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