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2020 National Work Zone Awareness Week

April 20, 2020

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: National Work Zone Awareness Week, safety, work zone

2019 National Work Zone Awareness Week–Drive Like You Work Here

April 10, 2019

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: National Work Zone Awareness Week, National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse, safety, work zone

National Work Zone Awareness Week 2018 — Work Zone Safety: Everybody’s Responsibility

April 9, 2018

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Jerry Ullman, National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse, safety, work zone

Attention Austin Area Travelers: Please Participate in Our Work Zone Traveler Information Preference Survey

June 21, 2017

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: travel survey, work zone

National Work Zone Awareness Week 2016 — Don’t Be That Driver!

April 12, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: National Work Zone Awareness Week, safety, work zone

TTI, TxDOT Team Up to Test Connected-Vehicle Technology

March 1, 2015

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 […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 51, Number 1 Tagged With: connected vehicle research, freight movement, infrastructure, mobility, real-time data, safety, Technology, traveler information, work zone

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

Work Zone Safety: We’re All In This Together

April 15, 2013

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2013 National Work Zone Awareness Week, National Work Zone Awareness Week, work zone, work zone safety

Providing Positive Protection for Work Zones

September 1, 2012

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.

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 48, Number 3 Tagged With: economics, positive protection, safety, work zone

TTI Studies Increased Crash Rates Along the DFW Connector

September 1, 2011

Take a dynamic work zone that can change daily. Add distracted drivers. What do you get?

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 47, Number 3 Tagged With: distracted driving, driver awareness, work zone

TTI in the Media

December 1, 2010

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 […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 46, Number 4 Tagged With: alternative fuels, congestion, crashes, pedestrian, work zone

The Forgiving Roadside: TTI research, facilities are vital to protecting your loved ones

September 1, 2010

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 […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 46, Number 3 Tagged With: ET2000, safety, work zone

Work Zone Up Ahead: Other States Call TTI for Work Zone Research

March 1, 2010

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 […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 46, Number 1 Tagged With: outreach, work zone

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