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Teens in the Driver Seat

Youth Transportation Safety Summit Combines All Generations of Highway Safety Leaders

May 26, 2023

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Youth Transportation Safety (YTS) Program held the first of its kind Youth Transportation Safety Summit May 15–17. This year’s event brought together young traffic safety ambassadors from junior high to college students alongside highway safety professionals for the first time in the program’s history. The summit provided a national […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Center for Transportation Safety, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat, U in the Driver Seat, youth transportation safety

Teen Safety Advocates from Texas, Ohio and Nebraska Win Big in Annual Driving the Message Contest

May 18, 2023

Car crashes are a leading cause of death for teens 15 to 18 years old in the United States, second only to teen suicide. Teen drivers are at a higher risk of being in a car crash due to driver inexperience. That lack of expertise — coupled with speeding, distracted driving or other risky behaviors […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, Teens in the Driver Seat, youth transportation safety

TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat Program Partners With Norfolk Southern

May 10, 2023

Norfolk Southern has awarded a grant to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat program. These funds will support rail safety education and outreach to 100 high schools and middle schools throughout Georgia. The partnership will seek to raise awareness of the dangers around by railroad crossings. Tragically, a majority of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, Teens in the Driver Seat, youth transportation safety

Teens Innovate Ways to #StopTrackTragedies

October 10, 2022

Every year, 2,100 North Americans are killed or seriously injured when they engage in unsafe behavior around tracks and trains. Operation Lifesaver Inc., Union Pacific Railroad and Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) program joined together Sept. 19–25 to observe Rail Safety Week (RSW) and urged the public to help […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Operation Lifesaver, rail safety, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat, Union Pacific

TTI Engages Young Women’s Leadership Academy to Explore Careers

November 23, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) conducted Nov. 11 career exploration sessions for 28 students in the San Antonio Independent School District’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy. Volunteers from Pape-Dawson Engineers together with consultants from the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) International Transportation YOU Program organized the sessions. Students watched a live crash test of roadside safety […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Teens in the Driver Seat, UTC, workforce

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

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

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

Now’s the Time to Teach Your Teen to Drive

April 20, 2020

The Silver Lining in the COVID-19 Cloud The entire world is practicing social distancing, and some of us are under shelter-in-place orders. You might find you have some extra time on your hands. If you’re a parent with a teen at home, you might find yourself even growing a bit antsy for something to do […]

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

General Motors Funds Expansion of Landmark Teen Driving Safety Program to America’s Heartland

December 1, 2019

General Motors (GM) has awarded a generous grant to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) Program. These funds will support ongoing outreach efforts in Texas, where TDS was born, as well as Georgia, reaching some 230 high schools and 200,000 students. TDS will also be able to expand its […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 55, Number 4 Tagged With: General Motors, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat

General Motors Funds Expansion of Landmark Teen Driving Safety Program to America’s Heartland

October 24, 2019

As part of National Teen Driving Safety Week, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) Program is announcing that a generous grant from General Motors (GM) will help TDS reach even more teen drivers with its safety messaging next year. These funds will support ongoing outreach efforts in Texas, where TDS […]

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

What We’re Thinking: As Cars Get Better, Driving Gets Worse

June 1, 2019

By Russell Henk This article was originally published in Dallas News, April 11, 2019. Our cars keep getting better, but our driving seems to be getting worse. Auto design has evolved from safety belts and airbags that help us survive crashes to features like lane-departure warnings and automatic emergency braking that help us avoid them. […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 55, Number 2 Tagged With: distracted driving, human interaction, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat

As Cars Get Better, Driving Gets Worse

April 15, 2019

By Russell Henk Our cars keep getting better, but our driving seems to be getting worse. Auto design has evolved from safety belts and airbags that help us survive crashes to features like lane-departure warnings and automatic emergency braking that help us avoid them. Still, the rate of distracted driving deaths rose twice as fast […]

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

Changing Our Mindset — TTI Research Reveals a Disconnect Between Belief and Behavior in Teen Drivers

December 1, 2018

Car crashes remain the No. 1 cause of death and injury for young people. For most of the past decade, teen crash deaths in the United States were on the decline before the trend reversed in 2013. Over those 10 years, researchers in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 54, Number 4 Tagged With: human factors, safety, Teens in the Driver Seat

As New School Year Begins, TTI Study Shows Risky Behaviors Continue by Teen Drivers, Despite Knowing the Dangers

August 21, 2018

Teen drivers understand that texting and talking on their cell phones are among their most dangerous behaviors behind the wheel, but they admit to doing them anyway. That’s one of the findings from the Teen Driver Risk Awareness Survey conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). The survey — one of the largest of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, TDS, teen driving, Teens in the Driver Seat

TTI’s Henk Appointed Chair of the Texas Teen Safe Driving Coalition

December 4, 2017

With the last 15 years of his professional career dedicated to the safety of teen drivers and their passengers, Russell Henk, senior research engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), has been named chairperson of Texas’ Teen Safe Driving Coalition — a partnership led by the National Safety Council. Henk is the program manager […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: TDS, teen driving safety, Teen Safe Driving Coalition, Teens in the Driver Seat, youth transportation safety

Teens in the Driver Seat® Celebrates 15 Years of Success

October 30, 2017

Teens in the Driver Seat®(TDS), the first peer-to-peer program for teens that focuses solely on traffic safety and addresses all major risks for this age group, recently reached a milestone anniversary of 15 years. View TDS 15 Year Report Card According to TDS Founder and Director Russell Henk, this year the program will provide more […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: safety, teen driving, Teens in the Driver Seat, youth transportation safety

Texas House of Representatives Recognizes TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat Program

May 19, 2017

On May 12, the Texas House of Representatives adopted H.R. 1949, a resolution recognizing the contributions made to teen driving safety by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and its Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) program. Launched in 2002 by TTI and sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation, State Farm Insurance and others, […]

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Teens in the Driver Seat® Launches Teen Driver App to Curb Distracted Driving Among Teen Drivers

October 20, 2016

On October 18, 2016, as part of National Teen Driver Safety Week (October 16-22), teen advocates of Teens in the Driver Seat® (TDS) and program staff launched Teen Driver, a new smartphone app created by MobiSoft Infotech, LLC. The launch was held at Creekview High School and highlighted the app’s functionality, as well as TDS’s […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: distracted driving, National Teen Driver Safety Week, Russell Henk, Teens in the Driver Seat

Tales Out of School

October 14, 2016

75 Percent of Teens Say Their Parents Drive Distracted If you’re a parent, you want to teach your kids to be smart and safe behind the wheel. It’s right there in the job description. But recent data gathered by Aceable—a mobile-first provider of online drivers-education and defensive-driving courses—suggests parents might be telling more than showing. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aceable, distracted driving, Teens in the Driver Seat

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