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TTI’s Dadashova Leads Safety Evaluation of On-Street Bicycle Facility Designs

April 13, 2021

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Assistant Research Scientist Bahar Dadashova is the team lead on a recently contracted project evaluating the safety of on-street bicycle facility design features. Funded primarily by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the effort also includes support from Portland State University, Toole Design Group and Safe Streets Research and Consulting. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bicycle, safety

TTI’s Xiaoqiang “Jack” Kong Published Research Paper on Phone Usage and Distracted Driving

March 22, 2021

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Graduate Research Assistant Xiaoqiang “Jack” Kong recently published the research paper “Characterizing phone usage while driving: Safety impact from road and operational perspectives using factor analysis” in Accident Analysis & Prevention. The paper’s authors also include Subasish Das, assistant research scientist in TTI’s Roadway Safety Division; Hongmin “Tracy” Zhou, associate […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: distracted driving, research, safety, transportation

TTI Crash Analytics Experts Publish Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling

March 16, 2021

Two crash analytics and modeling group members in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Center for Transportation Safety published the 1st edition of Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling Feb. 25, 2021, on Elsevier’s publisher platform. Texas A&M University Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor and TTI-affiliated Dominique Lord and TTI Research Engineer Srinivas […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Transportation Safety, modeling, safety

TTI Researchers Publish Paper on Speed-Crash Relationship for City Streets

December 7, 2020

Estimating the speed-crash relationship has long been a focus area of interest in roadway safety analysis. Because of many confounding factors that may influence both speeds and crashes, the relationship cannot be appropriately established without considering the corresponding roadway characteristics and accounting for their effects on speeds and crashes. Texas A&M Transportation Institute researchers Eun […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: planning, safety

Implementation of Bicycle and Pedestrian Monitoring Equipment

November 11, 2020

As the number of bicyclists on our roadways grows, so does the desire to accurately count how many there are and where they are traveling. TxDOT teamed up with Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers to evaluate the best bicycle monitoring equipment and to produce a user-friendly database for public use. The TTI video production […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, video summary report, VSR

TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat® Launches New App to Encourage Safety in Young Drivers

November 3, 2020

Car crashes account for nearly one-third of all teen deaths in America each year. As a part of National Teen Driver Safety Week Oct. 18–24, teen advocates of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) program launched its You in the Driver Seat (YDS) smartphone app, aimed at encouraging safer […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Russell Henk, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat

FCC Radio Spectrum Reallocation Could Impair Vehicle Safety

November 2, 2020

By Gretchen Stoeltje and Greg Winfree If you’ve been designing or building roads in recent years, you are probably familiar with the anticipated safety benefits of connected vehicles and the technology that will be required to make them work. You probably know that in order for connected vehicles to communicate with one another and with […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CAV, connected transportation, FCC, radio, safety, spectrum, What We're Thinking

Data From High-Tech Cars Can Help Pinpoint Road Safety Improvements and Prevent Crashes

October 28, 2020

Using the data produced by connected cars can improve safety for all of us. By Eva Shipp and Shawn Turner A growing number of higher-tech cars and trucks on the road are talking to us. And if we pay attention to what they’re saying, we could prevent a lot of crashes and save a lot […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CAV, connected transportation, Data Analytics, safety, What We're Thinking

TTI Proving Grounds Crew Nearly Beats Crash Test Record, Despite COVID-19

October 26, 2020

Despite a worldwide pandemic that shut down businesses and kept most workers at home through the spring and much of the summer, 37 Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers, technicians and support staff in the Roadside Safety and Physical Security Division have been working nonstop conducting a near-record number of crash tests for clients across […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Crash Tests, Lance Bullard, safety

National School Bus Safety Week Recognizes Challenges, Best Practices in Difficult Times

October 20, 2020

National School Bus Safety Week (Oct. 19–23, 2020) recognizes the importance of school bus safety with various activities aimed at teaching students how to be safer in and around school buses. The week also highlights ways roadway users can practice safer behaviors whenever they encounter buses on the roadway, helping to keep our children safer. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Katie Womack, National School Bus Safety Week, safety, School Bus

College Students, Traffic Safety Professionals Attend Virtual 2020 U in the Driver Seat Symposium

October 19, 2020

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) U in the Driver Seat (UDS) education and outreach program held its virtual 2020 UDS Symposium Oct. 7–9. Now in its eighth year, the symposium raises awareness about the leading cause of death for young adults ages 18–25 — traffic crashes. This year’s theme was “recharge to save lives […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Russell Henk, safety, symposium, Teens in the Driver Seat, U in the Driver Seat, youth transportation safety

Bringing the Passion at the Virtual 2020 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference

September 16, 2020

People in the child passenger safety field are some of the most passionate advocates you’ll ever meet. And they infused passion into the virtual 2020 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference Sept. 9–11, 2020. The fourth annual event had more than 400 attendees, most of whom are child passenger safety technicians (CPSTs). Organized by the Texas […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: child safety seat, Katie Womack, National Child Passenger Safety Week, safety, Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference

Winfree Featured in Bloomberg CityLab Article

August 12, 2020

Texas A&M Transportation Institute Agency Director Greg Winfree was featured as a contributor in a recently-published story on Bloomberg CityLab. “The Life-Saving Car Technology No One Wants” explores why safety features that would make vehicles far less lethal to pedestrians exist right now, but are not required. Read the full article on Bloomberg CityLab

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Greg Winfree, human factors, safety

Texas Roads Less Crowded, but No Less Dangerous

July 21, 2020

Reformation Austin News highlights the COVID-19 traffic trend of fewer vehicles on Texas roadways but the lack of a commensurate reduction in fatal crashes. TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety Director Robert Wunderlich discusses his analysis of the data behind those findings. Read the Reformation Austin News story

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Transportation Safety, COVID-19, Robert Wunderlich, safety

A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Safety Innovation at the 2020 Virtual Traffic Safety Conference

June 17, 2020

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) hosted the first ever virtual Traffic Safety Conference June 10–12, 2020. The conference, supported by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), focused on traffic safety issues and forward-looking research aligned with TxDOT’s goal to end all traffic fatalities on Texas roadways by 2050. For more information on the zero […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Transportation Safety, safety, Texas Traffic Safety Conference, virtual

The Safe System Approach with Robert Wunderlich, P.E.

June 2, 2020

Robert Wunderlich, P.E., ITE Fellow and Director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, discusses the Safe System approach to reducing serious injuries and fatalities on roadways. He highlights the various aspects of the Safe System, including roadway design that reduces user error and lowers impact forces, and explains what […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Transportation Safety, ITE, ITE Talks, Robert Wunderlich, safety

The Last Stop with Greg Winfree: More than Meets the Eye — Expanding How We See Transportation Safety in a World with Pandemics

June 1, 2020

Historically, transportation research has focused on avoiding dangers we can see. The first traffic light troubleshot human errors in judgment by better regulating traffic flow. As the 20th century unfolded, our focus shifted to innovations like seat belts and air bags to help us survive crashes we couldn’t avoid. Nowadays, sensors and cameras — high-tech […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 56, Number 2 Tagged With: COVID-19, editorial, public health, safety

TTI, Texas A&M Partner on Senior Driver Assistance Technologies Study

May 21, 2020

TTI Human Factors Program Manager and Senior Research Scientist Michael Manser recently concluded a study in which he partnered with Ranjana Mehta, associate professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of Texas A&M’s NeuroErgonomics Laboratory. The study examined how senior drivers prefer to learn about assistance technologies. Researchers discovered […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Driver, human factors, Mike Manser, safety, Texas A&M University

Are You Currently “Home” Schooling? Add Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety to Your Child’s Schoolwork

April 21, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has closed schools statewide and left a lot of parents “home schooling” their children. If you have an elementary-age child, this is a great time to incorporate pedestrian and bicycle safety into their schoolwork. Teaching your children pedestrian and bicycle safety will help them be safer as they explore your neighborhood. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bicycle safety, COVID-19, Harley and Hobbit, pedestrian safety, safety

2020 National Work Zone Awareness Week

April 20, 2020

Safe Work Zones for All: Protect workers This week, April 20-24, is National Work Zone Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Safe Work Zones for All: Protect workers. Protect road users.” Across the country, various agencies will work together to promote safe driving habits in work zones with an emphasis on reminding drivers that work […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: National Work Zone Awareness Week, safety, work zone

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