In 2015, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute surveyed 500 Texas businesses to determine transportation factors that affect freight business decisions, including facility siting. In this more recent effort, researchers sought to further clarify the importance of transportation in site selection decisions for six key industry sectors: advanced technologies and manufacturing, aerospace and defense, biotechnology and […]
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TTI Examines Strategies Other States Use to Cope with Energy Development
One way or the other, the oil and gas industry seems to be ever-present in the minds of Texans. Through last summer, oil prices over $100 per barrel were fueling a boom in drilling activity across the state, especially in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale formations. Texas was supporting 48 percent of all […]