Safe Work Zones for All: Protect workers This week, April 20-24, is National Work Zone Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Safe Work Zones for All: Protect workers. Protect road users.” Across the country, various agencies will work together to promote safe driving habits in work zones with an emphasis on reminding drivers that work […]
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2019 National Work Zone Awareness Week–Drive Like You Work Here
This week, April 8–12, is National Work Zone Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Drive Like You Work Here.” Across the country, various agencies will work together to promote safe driving habits in work zones with an emphasis on reminding drivers that work zone safety awareness starts with those behind the wheel. The Texas A&M […]
National Work Zone Awareness Week 2018 — Work Zone Safety: Everybody’s Responsibility
This week, Apr. 9–13, 2018, is National Work Zone Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Work Zone Safety: Everybody’s Responsibility.” Across the country, various agencies will work together to promote safe driving habits in work zones with an emphasis on reminding drivers that work zone safety awareness starts with those behind the wheel. The Texas […]
Attention Austin Area Travelers: Please Participate in Our Work Zone Traveler Information Preference Survey
TxDOT is interested in finding out more about how work zones affect personal travel behavior and how individuals obtain information regarding work zones. To that end, TxDOT, with assistance from TTI, is conducting the Texas Department of Transportation Work Zone Survey. The purpose of the survey is to gather information which will be used to […]
National Work Zone Awareness Week 2016 — Don’t Be That Driver!
April 11-15 is National Work Zone Awareness week. Each year in April, National Work Zone Awareness Week is held to bring national attention to motorist and worker safety and mobility issues in work zones. This year’s theme is “Don’t be that driver!” According to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), “In 2015, there were 21,886 work zone crashes […]
TTI, TxDOT Team Up to Test Connected-Vehicle Technology
Connected vehicles are coming. The transportation industry is already working on standards and prototypes. And part of developing them is testing to ensure the future of transportation is as safe, efficient and reliable as possible. A portion of I-35 could soon become a national test bed for connected-vehicle research, thanks in part to a four-year […]
Getting Information to Drivers to Improve Awareness, Safety
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 […]
Work Zone Safety: We’re All In This Together
Roadway work zones are hazardous both for motorists who navigate through lane changes and slowed speeds and for the dedicated workers whose office is often mere feet away from moving vehicles. Each year in April, National Work Zone Awareness Week is held to bring national attention to motorist and worker safety and mobility issues in […]
Providing Positive Protection for Work Zones
TTI conducted a project to develop more comprehensive guidelines for the Texas Department of Transportation’s use in assessing the need for positive protection in work zones.
TTI Studies Increased Crash Rates Along the DFW Connector
Take a dynamic work zone that can change daily. Add distracted drivers. What do you get?
TTI in the Media
Over the past year, TTI experts answered tough questions on a variety of state and national transportation issues. Over 2,500 newspaper articles, broadcast television spots and professional journals — with a potential reach of over 725 million readers and viewers nationwide — mentioned the Institute or its experts. Here are a few excerpts of TTI‘s […]
The Forgiving Roadside: TTI research, facilities are vital to protecting your loved ones
It’s five times safer to travel on our nation’s roadways today than it was five decades ago. For every 100 million miles Americans traveled in 1960, five people died. Today, the rate has dropped to just over one death per 100 million miles. “As a nation 50 years ago, we decided that killing tens of […]
Work Zone Up Ahead: Other States Call TTI for Work Zone Research
Traffic operations, such as improving the safety and efficiency of work zones, are coast-to-coast priorities. Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers journey outside the Lone Star State whenever — and wherever — duty calls. Three recent work zone projects have been part of TTI‘s effort to help sponsors nationwide. Intrusion Countermeasures Orange-and-white drums do not always […]