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Our Projects
Our safety experts work with state and federal agencies to develop safety outreach programs intended to educate and urge road users to follow traffic laws and replace reckless behaviors with safe ones.
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Texas High School Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education
Project Overview: Texas ranks among the top three states with the highest pedestrian fatality rates, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 2019. In 2021,…
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Commercial Vehicle Safety Projects
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Center for Transportation Safety has been involved in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) funded projects that address commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety through a…
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Street Coaching for Pedestrians and Cyclists: Putting Laws into Practice on University Campuses
The goal of this project is to change the safety mindset of pedestrian and bicycle road users through education, outreach, mobilization, and increasing safety awareness while honoring and embracing the…
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Walk. Bike. Safe. Texas
One out of every five fatalities on Texas roadways are a pedestrian or bicyclist. In Fact, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) crash data shows that in 2021 over 900 pedestrians…
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Law Enforcement Training on Pedestrian and Bicyclist Laws
In 2021, there were 824 pedestrian fatalities and 90 bicyclist fatalities in Texas, which is 20.4 percent of all roadway fatalities combined, or one in five fatalities. This represents a…
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Improving Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Near Large Trucks and Buses
Approximately two pedestrians and/or bicyclists are killed every day in crashes involving a large truck or bus. In these crashes, failure to yield right-of-way is a leading contributing factor at…
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Houston Chronicle Series Looks At Dangers Posed by Walking and Cycling in the Houston Region
In the fourth part of their “Out of Control” series, the Houston Chronicle takes an in-depth look at the risks associated with walking and biking in Houston. CTS Director Robert…
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Texas Together on the Road to Zero: TTI’s Traffic Safety Conference Looks at Ending Fatalities
“This is Texas together on the road to zero,” said Robert Wunderlich as he opened the 2018 Traffic Safety Conference in Sugar Land, Texas, August 8–10. Wunderlich, the director of…
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TTI Signs MOA with Korea Transport Institute
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI). The MOA was signed during a visit by a Korean delegation…
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Spike in Pedestrian/Bicyclist Deaths Prompts Year-Long Study by TxDOT
A sharp increase in the number of pedestrian fatalities in Texas has prompted researchers with the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) to examine what…