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traffic safety

Child Passenger Safety Conference Highlights Life-Saving Efforts of Technicians

July 19, 2018

In a rare moment for child passenger safety seat technicians (CPSTs), nearly 300 technicians and safety advocates heard firsthand from a mother who assured them that the work they do saved her daughter’s life. Michele and Brooke Ice were the keynote luncheon speakers for the 2018 Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference, held June 24–26 in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: child passenger safety seat technician, child safety seat, CPST, Texas Child Passenger Safety Conference, traffic safety

TTI’s Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies Works to Eliminate Impaired Driving

June 1, 2018

When traffic safety experts think about the problem of impaired driving in Texas, words like troublesome and frustrating come to mind. Despite dedicated efforts to make Texas roadways safer, the Lone Star State typically leads the country in the number of alcohol-related deaths, and always ranks in the top 10 states for the highest rate […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 54, Number 2 Tagged With: Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies, impaired driving, safety, traffic safety

TTI Traffic Safety Conference Plays Major Role in Developing Safety Plan for Texas

July 6, 2017

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) 10th Traffic Safety Conference is historic in that it was the first time attendees helped shape the state’s latest Strategic Highway Safety Plan. It’s a federal requirement that all the nation’s state departments of transportation renew their plans every five years. Texas must submit its newest version of the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2017 Traffic Safety Conference, EMS, National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, safety, State Highway Safety Plan, Texas, Texas Department of Transportation, traffic fatalities, traffic safety, TxDOT

TTI Investigates Traffic Safety Impacts of Marijuana Use

December 1, 2016

As part of a new Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) project, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers are looking into Texans’ attitudes on marijuana use and analyzing the traffic safety impacts in states that have legalized, decriminalized or made marijuana available for medical purposes. Several U.S. states have relaxed their marijuana laws, and during the […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 52, Number 4 Tagged With: drug-impaired driving, public policy, traffic safety

The TTI-TxDOT Team Is Working to Increase Safety for Texans

September 1, 2015

Improving transportation safety for Texans is a goal long shared by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). In 2015, three projects are continuing that tradition of making the roadways in the Lone Star State safer for everyone. TTI Develops Assessment Methodology for Rural Texas Armed with a new […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 51, Number 3 Tagged With: infrastructure improvement, motorcycle safety, risk assessment methodology, traffic safety

Getting Information to Drivers to Improve Awareness, Safety

December 1, 2013

Traffic Safety It’s the 21st century. Every day seems to bring a new advance in technology — the latest smartphone, the fastest tablet, the sharpest HDTV. Advances like these are happening in transportation too, and they’re being applied to traffic safety for highway work zones. One day, cars that drive themselves and communicate with the […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 49, Number 4 Tagged With: changeable message signs, end-of-queue warning system, radar, safety, traffic safety, work zone

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