Traffic signal performance measures have historically been more difficult to quantify than other mobility measures, but new datasets obtained from crowdsourced data have improved the ability of users to quantify traffic signal performance measures at statewide, urban area, and corridor levels without the installation and maintenance costs of detection and enhanced signal system equipment beyond…
Texas Freight Fluidity
Authors: Nicole Katsikides, Bill Eisele, Mario Monsreal, Jason Wallis, and William HwangPublished: July 2021 This guidebook is for transportation planners, policymakers, and system operators to help in understanding what freight fluidity is and illustrate the importance of the information freight fluidity provides. This guidebook aims to compel practitioners to want to know about freight fluidity…
Mobility Improvement Strategies
The tool does two different things: helps narrow down a long list of strategies to a more manageable size while making them more relevant to the area or problem trying to be solved. Then, the tool shows how each strategy is related or interconnected with the others.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Count Exchange
TxDOT Travel Survey Program
The Travel Survey Program (TSP) provides specialized technical support and expertise in travel surveys and data analyses that enables TxDOT and its MPO partners to meet their federally mandated requirements in transportation planning. The program allows for independent QA/QC, consistency in data collection, and ensures that survey support and recommendations are tailored to TxDOT and…
Travel Surveys
Researchers in TTI’s Transportation Planning Program have decades of experience in travel survey design, methods, and related data analysis/visualization. They have a vast depth of knowledge and extensive experience in both traditional surveys and newer methods using smartphone apps, web surveys, and passive ‘crowd-sourced’ data. The team has national expertise in household, work place, commercial…
Smart Growth Trip Generation
TTI was contracted to produce a validated and improved estimation method and a user-friendly tool to more accurately estimate trip generation for use in determining proper transportation improvements for smart growth developments in California and beyond. To improve the accuracy of the trip generation estimation model previously developed, this project collected trip generation data at…
Performance Based Planning and Programming
The Mobility Division develops and delivers Performance Based Planning and Programming training and workshops to MPOs and state DOTs to assist them in addressing federal requirements. The training and workshops include creating appropriate goals, objectives, performance measures, and performance targets that provide accountability and transparency in the transportation planning and programming processes. The training and…
Transportation Project Programming
TTI assists MPOs and state DOTs with project programming processes, including transportation improvement programs (TIPs) and statewide TIPs (STIPs), as well as public and stakeholder engagement, to develop fiscally constrained project programs that meet federal and state requirements. Mobility Division staff deliver training on transportation project programming through the National Transit Institute and the National…
CMAQ and Conformity Analyses
The Mobility Division works with metropolitan planning organization (MPOs), the Texas Department of Transportation, cities, counties, and transit agencies in Texas and other states with regions in non-attainment and near non-attainment status for air quality. TTI researchers provide guidance to agencies on incorporating Federal and State air quality regulations into their planning process, including conformity…