Washington, D.C.— According to a new study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, teen drivers are approximately 50 percent more likely to crash in the first month of driving than they are after a full year of experience driving on their own, and are nearly twice as likely to crash as they are after […]
Teens in the Driver Seat
TTI and PAHO to Collaborate on Roadway Safety Research
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) have partnered to collaborate on roadway safety research. TTI’s discussions with PAHO first began in 2007, when the organization expressed an interest in the Teens in the Driver Seat program. In April of that […]
TTI Researchers receive awards at annual ITE meeting
The Traffic Engineering Council Technical Committee on Pavement Marking Patterns Used at Uncontrolled Pedestrian Crossings: An Informational Report was selected to receive the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE’s) 2011 Coordinating Council Best Project Award. Kay Fitzpatrick, research engineer at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), chaired the committee, and TTI Assistant Research Engineer Marcus Brewer was […]
State Farm Grant Coincides with Deadliest Month for Teenage Drivers
State Farm has awarded a $100,000 grant to TTI’s Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS), making the company the largest corporate sponsor of the growing peer-based safety program for young drivers. The funding will go toward supporting the program in Texas. State Farm made its announcement on the eve of what is typically the deadliest […]
Awards and More
TDS Honored by National Safety Council, Gains Partner The National Safety Council (NSC) has recognized the Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) program with its Teen Driving Safety Leadership Award. This is the fourth national award the TDS program has received. For most of its nearly 100-year history, NSC has focused on workplace and transportation […]
Awards and more
U.S. State Department Signs Major Contract with TTI In one of the largest contracts ever awarded to Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), the Crashworthy Structures Program has received a U.S. Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security pact that will provide up to $7 million in work over a five-year period. The contract calls for TTI […]
Awards and more
Bligh, Little Join Elite A&M System Group TTI Research Engineer Roger Bligh and Senior Research Fellow Dallas Little were honored in December with two of the highest tributes awarded by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Bligh was named one of only 71 Regents Fellows by the A&M System Board of Regents as […]
Teens in the Driver Seat Program Looks to Build on Milestone Year
The phrases “peer pressure” and “spreading like wildfire” tend to carry negative connotations, yet for the Texas Transportation Institute’s (TTI‘s) Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) program, those phrases are signs of success. With funding from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Section 402 program and State Farm Insurance, the TDS program began in 2003 […]
Tightening Your Beltway in Tough Times
Perhaps the single greatest challenge to transportation today is funding — funding to build, funding to operate, funding to maintain. Budgets are shrinking, but the driving population isn’t. One way to address these competing challenges is through innovation. Research and economic projections tell us that our future transportation needs far exceed our current funding levels. […]