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 […]
Technology
At a Glance — TTI’s Advanced Transportation Technology Research
Applying Advanced Tech Innovations to Transportation
AV-CV Strategy Guide Designed for Public Decision Makers The required public transportation project delivery process can be slow, methodical and risk averse. The technology industry, by contrast, moves quickly, often takes risks, and may treat failures as learning moments. It’s hard to imagine a greater potential for culture clash, but those are the players in […]
Identifying Transportation Solutions That Promote Healthy Aging
The quality of life and transportation access are inescapably tied, no matter who you are. But that link is especially critical if you’re among those Americans classified as older. And older is a fast-growing group. The Baby Boomer generation will be over the age of 65 by 2030, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning […]
Texas A&M, TTI Seek Transportation Technology Innovations for its Campus Transformation Vision
Improving the overall campus transportation system is the focus of a broad new initiative to identify promising products and ideas for testing on the Texas A&M University campus. The Campus Transportation Technology Initiative is being conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), under the direction of Texas A&M University, through a Request for Information […]
Transportation Technology and the Law: TTI Takes Part in Symposium
Researchers with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) played a major role in a Texas A&M School of Law conference dedicated to the future of transportation. Changing Landscape of Transportation: Technology, Data and the Law was held in Fort Worth April 1. Ginger Goodin, director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, moderated two sessions of […]
TTI, TxDOT Team Up to Test Connected-Vehicle Technology
Connected vehicles are coming. The transportation industry is already working on standards and prototypes. And part of developing them is testing to ensure the future of transportation is as safe, efficient and reliable as possible. A portion of I-35 could soon become a national test bed for connected-vehicle research, thanks in part to a four-year […]
Accelerating Texas into the Future
Development of Smarter Transportation is a Critical Component of the 21st Century System The ever-changing landscape of transportation needs and new technologies — as well as funding issues and a rapidly growing population — have created a complex set of transportation issues for the state of Texas. The future of the transportation system is rooted […]
High School Students Experience Life as Engineers during Tour of TTI, A&M
Cesar Martinez grew up near the Boeing and Lockheed Martin facilities in Houston. It gave him an appreciation for aircraft and inspired in him a dream for what he might one day become: an aeronautical engineer. Martinez and 50 other Houston-area high school students arrived on the Texas A&M University campus July 22 for a […]
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