The job of building and maintaining the state’s transportation infrastructure carries a very big cost. Our research aspires to help inform the policy decisions that will determine how best to manage that cost.
Research
- 2021 Survey of State Funding Practices for Coastal Port Infrastructure
- How to Fund Transportation
- Connected Vehicle Infrastructure: Deployment and Funding Overview
- Finding the Value of Urban Parking
- Highway Cost Index Estimator Tool
- Design-Build Highway Projects: A Review of Practices and Experiences
- A Review of Alternative Financing Methods for Roadway Projects in Small Urban and Rural Areas of Texas
- Estimating the Value and Reliability of Travel Time
- Methodologies Used to Estimate and Forecast Vehicle Miles Traveled
- Summary and Status of Concession Agreements in Texas
- Alternative Fuel Vehicle Forecasts
- Regional Mobility Authorities in Texas: History and Current Status
- Transportation Reinvestment Zones: Texas Legislative History and Implementation
- Sources for Funding Transit in Texas
- Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Fee Assessment
- Texas Toll Road Primer
- Economic Impact Analysis and Revenue Projection Modeling (TRENDS and TREDIS)
- Public-Private Investment Models for Roadway Infrastructure
- Innovative Finance: Strategic Research Project
- Assessing the Cost of Construction Project Delays
Data Visualization
Testimony to the Texas Legislature
Finance
- Evaluation of current transportation funding for TexasBrianne Glover, September 18, 2020
- Texas ports, innovation & infrastructureGinger Goodin and Jim Kruse, March 13, 2017
- Use of transportation reinvestment zonesGinger Goodin and Rafael Aldrete, September 28, 2016
- Transportation funding options used in other statesDavid Ellis and Brianne Glover, May 25, 2016
- History and current status of regional mobility authorities in TexasGinger Goodin and John Overman, March 29, 2016
- Future construction and maintenance funding need estimates through 2030Ginger Goodin and Brianne Glover, September 10, 2015
- Vehicle miles traveled fees as a transportation funding optionGinger Goodin, August 5, 2014
- Estimated effect of raising the state gas tax by 5 cents per gallonDavid Ellis, August 5, 2014
- Future construction and maintenance funding need estimates through 2030David Ellis, June 23-24, 2014
- Future construction and maintenance funding need estimates through 2030David Ellis, May 6, 2014
- Current status of transportation infrastructure, projected needs, and potential funding solutionsDavid Ellis, February 12, 2013
Brianne Glover, J.D.
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Tel: 979-317-2282
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Brianne Glover is an Associate Research Scientist with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Manager of the Infrastructure Investment Analysis Program. She is an Attorney and Counselor at Law, licensed to practice in the state of Texas. She has been involved with numerous research projects within the Infrastructure Investment Analysis Program and the Mobility Analysis Program that focus on transportation financing as well as the economic impacts associated with transportation improvements. Dr. Glover has testified before the Texas House of Representatives Transportation Subcommittee on Long-Term Planning regarding finance options as well as future funding needs.
Dr. Glover's main focus is the maintenance and future development of the Transportation Revenue Estimator and Needs Determination System (TRENDS) model. The TRENDS model is designed to provide transportation planners, policy makers and the public with a tool to forecast transportation revenues and expenses based on a user-defined level of investment at both the state and local level. She has also developed an economic impact assessment tool that produces economic and mobility results at the MPO level. Other projects include benefit- cost analyses for TIGER grant applications, economic impact assessments for both the public and private sector, and on-call research support for the Texas legislature regarding financial tools and forecasts, as well as economic transportation topics.
While pursuing her Juris Doctor degree she interned with the State of Texas and Brazos County. Before attending law school, Dr. Glover worked for a local civil engineering firm that specialized in roadway, utility, traffic control and drainage design work for local city and TxDOT projects.
Dr. Glover is a member of the State Bar of Texas, American Bar Association, and the State and Local Government Law section of the ABA.
