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  • Even Self-Driving Cars Need Driver Education

    A self-driving Uber car on the road in Pittsburgh. By Johanna Zmud, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, for The Conversation What do self-driving cars and teenage drivers have in common? Experience. Or, more accurately, a lack of experience. Teenage drivers – novice drivers of any age, actually – begin with little…

  • Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Mays Business School Launch Innovation Partnership

    By Terri Parker, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Taking innovative transportation ideas and working with the private sector to develop them into viable products and services that improve transportation safety and mobility is the goal of a new partnership between the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the McFerrin Center…

  • Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick On Hand For Center For Infrastructure Renewal Ribbon Cutting

    By Rick Davenport, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Credited with acquiring the legislative funding needed for The Texas A&M University System’s Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR), Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was the special guest for the center’s ribbon-cutting ceremony held on the RELLIS Campus April 11. The 138,000-square-foot, multidisciplinary…

  • Chancellor John Sharp Highlights Platooning Technology And Self-Driving 18-Wheelers

    By Laylan Copelin, Texas A&M University System  If you see the driver of a big rig with no hands on the wheel, you hopefully are witnessing a new technology developed at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp recently took a ride in truck…

  • Infrastructure Renewal Symposium Brings Together Industry Experts, Leaders

    John Barton, The Texas A&M University System; Art Daniel, Associated General Contractors of America; James Ray, U.S. Department of Transportation; The Honorable Geanie Morrison, Texas House of Representatives Committee on Transportation; The Honorable Tryon Lewis, Texas Transportation Commission. By Texas A&M Transportation Institute Optimism about future transportation funding and…

  • TTI Recruiting Volunteer Passengers For Self-Driving Shuttle

    By Texas A&M Transportation Institute As part of the Campus Transportation Technology Initiative, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)—in partnership with Texas A&M Transportation Services and Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering—is testing a self-driving shuttle to improve campus mobility. TTI invites students, the local community and…

  • Self-Driving Cars Are Coming – But Are We Ready?

    A self-driving Uber car on the road in Pittsburgh. Jeff Inglis, The Conversation, CC BY-ND By Johanna Zmud and Paul Carlson, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, for The Conversation It’s been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise…

  • Texas A&M Transportation Institute Begins Ambitious Traffic Flow Project

      By Melissa Maraj, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today announced an exploratory transportation project to optimize traffic flows for bus ridership and utilize data analytics to improve navigation at Texas A&M University through Aruba Wireless and Data…

  • Leaders In Transportation Tech: TTI Hosts 10th Safety Conference

    Robert Wunderlich, director of TTI’s Center for Transportation Safety, leads the opening session of the 2017 Traffic Safety Conference. By Texas A&M Transportation Institute Staff 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…

  • Want To Improve The Bush-Wellborn Intersection? Take The BWX Survey

    By Texas A&M Transportation Institute Staff The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is working with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to identify improvements needed at the Bush-Wellborn intersection. Specific goals for the BWX, or Bush-Wellborn Crossing, include enhancing overall safety for the thousands of motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians passing through…