A comprehensive, new review of the impacts of shale oil and gas development in Texas by a cross-disciplinary task force—organized by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST)—finds a wide range of both benefits and consequences for the state’s infrastructure, environment and communities. These impacts are detailed in the new report by the […]
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New Report: How Vulnerable is Texas’ Freight Infrastructure to Extreme Weather Events?
The freight community’s ability to prepare for and respond to extreme weather events is in part dependent upon the resilience of the transportation infrastructure and whether the system maintains functionality during and following adverse conditions. However, freight infrastructure resilience analysis, design, and planning methods are relatively immature and may limit the ability to effectively plan […]
TTI Experts Brief Legislators on Ride-Hailing Company Research, Port Infrastructure Issues, Exports
Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers Ginger Goodin and Maarit Moran outlined the agency’s latest research on transportation network companies (TNCs) for members of the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce on Mar. 14. Goodin, the director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, outlined in her testimony how TNC operations have expanded rapidly in […]
TTI researchers testified May 25th on state transportation funding
Links Referenced in the May 25, 2016 hearing of the Texas House Transportation Subcommittee on Long-Term Infrastructure Planning may be found here. Members of a House committee on May 25 were briefed by TTI researchers who addressed finance options used in other states to fund transportation infrastructure. The testimony before the Texas House Select Committee on Long-Term Infrastructure […]
TTI researchers brief legislators on issues related to coastal port operations
Members of a Senate committee on May 4 were briefed by TTI researchers who addressed the role of transportation in Texas export supply chains and the state financing of coastal ports. The testimony before the Texas Senate Select Committee on Texas Ports was provided by Ginger Goodin, Director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center, and […]
Goodin helps lead policy discussion at TRB automated vehicles symposium
Ginger Goodin, director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center (PRC), recently joined other national automated-transportation experts for the 2014 Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco. The Transportation Research Board and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International sponsored the event. The symposium focused on the challenges and opportunities presented by automated vehicles and the roadway […]