Our Focus
Traffic Safety Analysis Tools
Our Projects
Our researchers use and develop state-of-the-art safety analysis tools to help save lives and reduce the number of injuries on our roadways.
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Linking Crash and EMS/Trauma Data Through a Universal Unique Identifier
Project Need and Approach In 2021, approximately every two minutes, someone was seriously injured, and every two hours, someone died in a crash in Texas. Most of these individuals, plus many that sustained lesser injuries, required medical interventions performed by emergency medical services (EMS) and trauma professionals. To comprehensively understand the intricate relationship between safety,…
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Texas Traffic Records Coordinating Committee
Members of the Crash Analytics team and Center for Alcohol and Drugs Education Studies provide Technical Assistance to the Texas Traffic Records Coordinating Committee (TRCC) including help plan and conduct quarterly meetings and providing technical assistance to TRCC members. The TRCC is a partnership of representatives from the transportation, law enforcement, criminal justice, and health…
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List of Safety Tools
This page includes a list of safety analytical tools designed to help the user identify roadway locations with the best opportunities to improve safety performance and to evaluate design alternatives for their impact on safety. Evaluation and Design Tools The Evaluation and Design tools provide a straightforward way to compare the safety performance of different…
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Crash Reporting Resources for Law Enforcement Officers
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Center for Transportation Safety has been involved in multiple projects that identify and address the needs of law enforcement officers in Texas. Of particular importance is filling out the Texas CR-3 Crash Report accurately and completely. Check out the roll call videos, tip cards, and other resources below for crash…
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Leveraging motor vehicle crash data for injury surveillance and research in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
In the U.S., the number one cause of fatal occupational injuries is highway transportation crashes (CDC, 2011 in MMWR). AFF workers experience substantially higher transportation-related injury rates compared to other workers. Additionally, all five states (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX) in the SW Ag Center region were among those with the highest or second highest…
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Assessing Driver Distraction due to In-Vehicle Video Systems Through Field Testing
Existing and emerging in-vehicle technologies — entertainment systems, communications systems, and intelligent transportation systems — have made travel hours more productive and entertaining, forever transforming the way drivers interact with the vehicle. This study used TTI’s instrumented vehicle to examine driver distraction due toin-vehicle video systems. The vehicle contained cameras to monitor driver performance; an…
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The Year of Driving Less—but More Dangerously
CTS Director and TTI Senior Research Engineer Robert Wunderlich is featured in a story in WIRED highlighting the downturn in traffic volume and the overall number of crashes during COVID-19 quarantine while pointing out the lack of a commensurate reduction in fatal crashes.
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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 the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), made the announcement after he asked attendees to stand if they work to…
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CTS Director Featured Speaker at NC Traffic Safety Conference and Expo
Center for Transportation Safety Director Robert Wunderlich was a featured speaker at last week’s North Carolina Traffic Safety Conference and Expo. His presentation, The Ups and Downs and Ins and Outs of Traffic Fatalities in the United States, examined the primary factors related to the significant decrease in fatalities in the United States from 2005…
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A Team Effort: Toyota Project Brings Together Multiple Institutions to Create Crash Countermeasures
In 2013, Robert Wunderlich, director of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Center for Transportation Safety, gathered a team of researchers to work on a project funded by the Toyota Economic Loss Settlement — money set aside for transportation safety research. The project’s goal was to find methods to reduce crashes caused by vehicle- and/or…
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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 to TTI on July 12. The day included presentations by KOTI and TTI leadership. The three-member Korean delegation consisted of Dr. Chang Woon Lee, president of…
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TTI Traffic Safety Conference Plays Major Role in Developing Safety Plan for Texas
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) 10th Traffic Safety Conference is historic in that it was the first time attendees helped shape the state’s latest Strategic Highway Safety Plan. It’s a federal requirement that all the nation’s state departments of transportation renew their plans every five years. Texas must submit its newest version of the…