For more than a decade, transportation professionals and policymakers in Texas have used the Transportation Revenue Estimator and Needs Determination System (TRENDS) to project funding levels and simplify the arduous task of highway planning in a fast-growing state. The easy-to-use, interactive model has been applied extensively to forecast transportation revenue changes related to changing state […]
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Who’s Driving the Revolution?: Latest Edition of Texas Transportation Researcher Now Available
New technologies are revolutionizing our transportation system. In a few decades, cars could be driving themselves. How the private and public sectors work together to implement these new technologies will prove key to ensuring a seamless, safe and secure transportation network in the future. The latest issue of the Texas Transportation Researcher focuses on TTI’s […]
Driving: Once a Dream, Now a Reality for Franklin McMurrian
In 1995, 16-year-old Franklin McMurrian had dreams of becoming a sports star — the NBA or NFL, it really didn’t matter. Achievable, perhaps, but for Franklin it suddenly became impossible. “A friend and me were horsing around with a gun,” McMurrian recalls of the incident that changed his life. It turned out the gun was […]