Transportation is just one factor that often plays a role in determining the location of a home during the buying process. Through a survey given to licensed Texas REALTORS® about their last transaction, this project determined which factors are most important to Texans and how these vary in Texas as a whole, in Texas’ major […]
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Transportation Policymakers in the 85th Texas Legislature
Leadership in both houses of the Texas Legislature have made their appointments to the committees that will examine legislation and shape transportation policy in Texas for the next two years. In the Senate, members of the Senate Transportation Committee and the Article VII Working Group of the Senate Finance Committee have, respectively, already begun deliberating […]
Winfree, Goodin Provide Testimony for State Transportation Policy Leaders
Members of The Texas House Committee on Transportation on March 2 heard invited testimony on the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) background and current research priorities. “Transportation covers a growing range of issues, encompassing much more than just constructing roads and bridges — technology and policy have become central considerations,” TTI Agency Director Greg Winfree […]
More Texans turning to phone apps, websites to avoid traffic, survey suggests
Texans are relying more on information from smart phones and websites to make routine travel decisions than they did two years ago, according to new research from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). According to the survey conducted this summer, 70 percent of respondents said they had recently used a smart phone app for navigation […]
Texas House committee hears TTI research on state TNC regulations
Members of the Texas House Committee on Transportation on August 30 heard the latest on how states are shaping the policies that govern how new ride-hailing operations provide their on-demand services. Ginger Goodin, director of TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center (PRC) offered a summary of the findings from Policy Implications of Transportation Network Companies, the […]
We’re asking 5,000 Texans about our transportation system; they’re letting us know what they think
In one way or another, the transportation system in Texas serves practically all of the more than 27 million people who live in the state, every day. Any time you’re planning, financing, building, and managing something that big, it can be really worthwhile to understand what’s on the minds of those who use it. That’s […]