The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) has been awarded a major multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety Research and Development. The contract, which could provide as much as $50 million in funding over the next five years, supports the FHWA’s Office of Safety R&D in its efforts to determine […]
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TTI Helps Texas Communities Meet Transportation Challenges
Transportation research is not an end unto itself. It’s a means by which the system we have can be transformed into the system we need. By proposing, testing and refining new ideas that improve and extend our transportation system, we make that system safer, help stretch dollars farther, and better serve the interests of the […]
TTI’s Safety Center Expands Research Opportunities Through New ATLAS Center
The nation’s two largest university-based transportation research institutes have joined forces to form a unique University Transportation Center (UTC) designed to improve safety through a multidisciplinary, systems approach. The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) — which will lead the efforts — and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) will form the UTC, called […]
Christiansen Editorial in the Texas Lyceum Journal Focuses on Transportation Infrastructure
Dennis Christiansen, agency director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), recently wrote an editorial for the 2012-2013 Texas Lyceum journal. The editorial examines the state of transportation in Texas, where rapid growth and shrinking resources have stretched the transportation infrastructure to its limits, threatening the state’s economy and quality of life. The full text […]
Transportation Infrastructure in Texas: The Needs and the Numbers
By Dennis L. Christiansen, P.E. Agency Director, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Had the Texas Lyceum met at a conference to discuss Texas infrastructure a little over 100 years ago, say in 1911, the need for roads and “getting the farmer out of the mud” was a major agenda item. Had the conference met about 70 […]
Transportation Research Challenges
Transportation research is a multi-disciplinary, national effort to identify and solve the challenges we face in planning, building and maintaining the thousands of miles of roadway in this country. Traffic Safety Fatal rear-end collisions nationally in 2012 — 1,933 with 120 of those occurring in highway work zones. Trade In 2012, a record 5.1 million […]