TTI - Key Persons
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- Assistant Research Scientist / Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies
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- Research Specialist II / Research & Implementation - Houston
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- Software Applications Developer II
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- Assistant
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- Assistant Research Scientist / Planning and Environment
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- Assistant Transportation Researcher
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Administrative Coordinator I
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- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
Mr. Rutter has more than 30 years of experience in multimodal transportation policy, finance and safety, and organizational management and strategic planning. Mr. Rutter provides leadership in TTI's freight research efforts. Working out of TTI's Dallas office, he guides the implementation of a strategic plan for TTI's freight activities and serves in a coordination role for freight… (more)
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- Assistant Research Engineer / Research & Implementation - Sa
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- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Senior Research Engineer / Research & Implementation
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- Associate Research Engineer With the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Mr. Gurganus is an associate research engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.… (more)
Mr. Simek has 15 years of project management and travel behavior survey research experience, including 12 years in private sector consulting, and 3 year in university research. Throughout his career, his work and experience has been focused in the areas of travel surveys to support urban transportation models and urban planning policy.… (more)
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Transportation Researcher at the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Mr. Salgado is an Assistant Transportation Researcher at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), a member of the Texas A&M University System. His experience includes technical, financial and institutional structuring of transportation infrastructure; tolling feasibility studies; transportation system management and operations (TSMO); feasibility studies for the implementation of transportation systems… (more)
Dr. Schrank has been extensively involved in urban mobility research for over 20 years. He has been involved in research that has developed and applied a methodology to assess areawide traffic congestion levels and congestion costs. The Urban Mobility Report includes information on 101 cities throughout the U.S. from 1982. The study examines trends in urban area mobility and documents… (more)
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- Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator III / Facilities
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- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Software Applications Developer IV
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- Senior Research Engineer / Transportation Operations Group
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
Dr. Andrew J. Wimsatt joined the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) in September, 2006, after working at the Texas of Department of Transportation (Texas DOT) for 18 years, most recently as the Fort Worth District Pavement Engineer and manager of the District's Pavement Management and Bridge Inspection Section from February, 1996 to August, 2006. He earned… (more)
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- Associate Director
- Executive
Dr. Katie Turnbull is an executive associate director of TTI and is head of the System Planning, Policy, & Environment Research Group.… (more)
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- Senior Research Engineer at the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Dr. Kay Fitzpatrick is a Senior Research Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She has both bachelor and master degrees from Texas A&M University and a doctor of philosophy degree from Penn State University. She is a registered professional engineer in Texas and Pennsylvania.… (more)
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- Senior Research Scientist in at the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Dr. Susan Chrysler is a human factors psychologist and Senior Research Scientist in at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) in the Operations and Design Division. She returned to TTI in 2014 after spending three years at the University of Iowa as the Director of Research at the National Advanced Driving Simulator.… (more)
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Administrative Associate II
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- Program Manager for the Texas a & M Transportation Institute 's Transportation Planning Program
Mr. Hard is program manager for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's Transportation Planning Program in College Station. He has over 20 years of experience as a professional transportation planner, including 10 years in the public sector, 9 years in university research, and 2 years in consulting. His areas of expertise include travel surveys to support urban transportation models and corridor management and preservation.… (more)
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- Associate
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- Human Resources Specialist II / Human Resources
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- Senior Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellows
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- Research Engineering Associate III
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- Financial Accountant II / Financial Services
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- Communications Specialist II / Communications
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- Proposal Administrator II / Research Development Office
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- Assistant Research Engineer
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- Research Specialist II / Planning and Environment
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- Assistant
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- Senior Classification and Compensation Analyst / Human Resources
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- Assistant Director, Facilities and Construction / Facilities
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- Geospatial Systems Coordinator III
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Senior Research Engineer / Interdisciplinary Research Group
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Financial Accountant I / Financial Services
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Associate Research Scientist / Research & Implementation - El Paso
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- Financial Accountant II / Financial Services / Texas a & M Transportation Institute
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- Associate Director, Information Technology
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Executive Assistant II / Administration
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- Assistant
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- Administrative Associate V
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- Engineering Technician II
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- Associate Research Scientist With the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Jeff Kaufman is an associate research scientist with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.… (more)
Dr. Ullman has been a principal investigator or key researcher on over 70 different research studies pertaining to work zone safety and operations, dynamic message sign message design and applications, transportation management analysis of major freeway reconstruction projects, transportation management for incidents and major emergencies, and freeway operations and management.… (more)
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- Facilities Coordinator I / Facilities
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Deputy Director, Agency / Division Head / Administration
Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2000
M.Eng., Transportation Engineering, University of Pretoria, 1993
B.E., Construction Project Management, University of Pretoria, 1990
B.E., Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria, 1986
John Habermann joined the TTI Research and Implementation Division as the Lead Mobility Coordinator on the I-35 Mobility Coordination Project. John moved to the Waco area to start an I-35 project office for TTI. In his role as mobility coordinator, John has worked to advance traffic and work zone safety initiatives such as automated, portable, smart traffic, monitoring systems, variable speed limits in work zones, dynamic speed display signs, comparative travel time signs, and the dynamic late lane merge… (more)
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- Engineering Technician III
- Research Specialist IV
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- Business Administrator II / Communications
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Events Coordinator III / Events Management
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- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Senior Research Scientist at the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Katie Womack is a Senior Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and is the manager of the Behavioral Research Group at the Center for Transportation Safety. Ms. Womack has been a member of the Institute's full-time staff for over 24 years, joining TTI as a graduate student in Sociology at Texas A&M University. Prior to receiving her Master's degree from Texas A&M University, Ms. Womack received B.A. degrees (cum laude) in Sociology and Psychology at Texas A&M University-Commerce… (more)
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- Associate Research Scientist / Research & Implementation - Houston
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- Software Applications Developer II
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- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Assistant Research Scientist / Planning and Environment
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Research Engineering Associate III
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Senior Research Scientist / Center for Ports & Waterways
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- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
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- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Systems Administrator III
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- Communications Specialist II / Communications
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- Research Engineer / Research & Implementation - Dallas
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Assistant Research Scientist / Planning and Environment
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Director, ( ORP Eligible ) Research Development Office
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- Assistant
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Web Applications Developer III / Communications
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- Graduate Assistant - Research / Center for Railway Research
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- Assistant Transportation Researcher
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- Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator I / Facilities
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- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
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- Communications Specialist II / Communications
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- Research Engineer in the Traffic Operations and Roadway Safety Division of the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Melisa Finley is a Research Engineer in the Traffic Operations and Roadway Safety Division of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). She has over 15 years of experience as a principal investigator or key researcher on over 35 studies relating to work zone safety and operations, traffic control measures and devices, human factors, and educational outreach.… (more)
Michael has experience in conducting multimodal transportation planning- and safety-related studies in both urban and rural contexts. His work has focused on providing communities and local, state, and federal transportation agencies with data-driven results that are informative and implementable… (more)
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- Senior Systems Analyst at the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
As a Senior Systems Analyst at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Mr. Vickich has almost 20 years of experience developing transportation software systems. While at TTI, his work has involved him in the design and implementation of Traffic Management System (TMC) software responsible for running large scale Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) and… (more)
Mr. Shawn Turner has managed and performed a wide variety of transportation planning and traffic operations research since joining the Texas A&M Transportation Institute in 1992. His major areas of emphasis have been in traffic data collection, ITS data archiving, management, and analysis. Other emphasis areas include transportation system performance measures and bicycle/pedestrian transportation.… (more)
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- Research Scientist at the Texas a & M Transportation Institute
Mr. Stephen Sebesta is a research scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). His research interests include rapid pavement renewal strategies, identification and development of new techniques for field and laboratory quality control, soil and base stabilization and reclamation, nondestructive testing, and forensic evaluation. He enjoys working closely with stakeholders to identify solutions to real-world problems and places high priority on providing results of practical usefulness to project sponsors.… (more)
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- Program Manager of the Flexible Pavement Program
Mr. Tom Scullion is a Regents Fellow and the program manager of the Flexible Pavement Program at TTI and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. He has been involved with pavement research for 35 years and his current interests are in the areas of pavement rehabilitation, overlay design, non-destructive testing, and the development and implementation of new technologies for real-time quality control testing… (more)
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- Research Engineer
- Traffic Engineer
Education
M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University, 2000
B.S., Civil Engineering, Clemson University, 1998
Ms. Debbie Albert is a Traffic Engineer with over 20 years of municipal traffic engineering experience. Since joining TTI in the summer of 2020, Ms. Albert is supporting TxDOT Clear Lanes evaluation research and transportation operations projects for Texas A&M University Transportation Services.
Prior to becoming a member of TTI's Mobility Analysis Program, she held various traffic engineering and transportation planning positions with the City of Glendale in Arizona. Most recently, she served as the City Traffic Engineer providing management and direction for all traffic engineering and operations functions as well as coordinating regional transportation projects affecting the city.
During her tenue with Glendale, Ms. Albert also led projects in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, public engagement and special event traffic management. Specifically, she was responsible for development and implementation of a citywide intelligent transportation system including over 100 miles of fiber optic cable, 130 closed circuit television cameras, 14 dynamic message signs and a state-of-the-art traffic management center. She coordinated the transportation management and public communications plans for a 17,000+ seat hockey arena anchoring a $1 Billion mixed-use development entertainment, dining and retail development, a spring training baseball stadium and large (up to 78,000 fans) sporting and special events at State Farm Stadium, hosting Arizona Cardinals football games, Fiesta Bowl and College Football Championship playoff games, and the Super Bowl and Pro Bowl games. Over her 20-year career, she also engaged the public on neighborhood traffic concerns, specific projects including planning for a light rail transit line and through various city Boards and Commissions.
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Administrative Associate III
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- Assistant Transportation Researcher
Neal Johnson is an Assistant Transportation Researcher in the Center for Transportation Safety, Behavioral Research Group. Mr. Johnson came to Texas after receiving his master's degree at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. During his graduate studies Mr. Johnson served as a graduate assistant researcher.… (more)
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- Director / Communications
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- Director, Administration / Administration
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- Assistant Transportation Researcher
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- Financial Accountant IV / Financial Services
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- Research Specialist I / Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies
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- Assistant Director, Human Resources / Human Resources
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- Research Services Administrator / Research Development Office
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Transportation Researcher
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- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
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- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
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- Engineering Technician II
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Program Specialist II / Research & Implementation - Houston
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- Business Coordinator II / Research & Implementation - Arlington
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- Manager, Printing Services / Communications
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- Senior Communications Specialist / Communications
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- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Specialist III
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Data Scientist
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Human Resources Specialist II / Human Resources
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Specialist V / Research & Implementation - Arlington
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Specialist III
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Engineering Technician III
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Specialist II
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Engineering Technician II
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Business Coordinator II / Communications
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Graduate Student Worker - Biweekly
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Graduate Assistant - Research
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Senior Administrative Coordinator I
Currently holding the position of senior research scientist and possessing a diverse background of project experience encompassing 30 years of cross-cutting research across both transportation operations and information technology, Mr. Brydia is an expert in developing highly functional and integrated systems for multiple deployment efforts, and for implementing cross-cutting technology innovations that lead to recognizable transportation improvements… (more)
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Assistant Research Scientist / Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Specialist V
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Senior Research Scientist
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Senior Administrative Coordinator II / Facilities
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Project Manager III
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- Associate
- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Research Scientist
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Administrative Coordinator I / Administration
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- Associate Transportation Researcher
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Senior Research Scientist
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- Member of the Pavement Management Team
- Senior Research Scientist
Mr. Cooner's experience includes a wide range of traffic operations and transportation planning activities. He has experience in freeway operations studies, signalized intersection analysis, railroad-highway grade crossing safety, ITS planning, incident management research, simulation modeling, and accident analysis. Mr. Cooner received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. He has been employed with TTI Arlington office since August 1995 and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.… (more)
Srinivasa Sunkari is a Research Engineer in the Translink Research Center. Currently he is working on a project to provide advance warning for end of green at high speed signals and another project to develop cost effective methods to obtain advance detection at signalized intersections.… (more)
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- Software Applications Developer
Mr. Samant has been involved in development of web based and desktop software since 2001. Mr. Samant currently serves as a Software Applications Developer at TTI. In this role, he has developed web based software applications for projects sponsored by various regional, state and federal agencies.… (more)
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- Business Coordinator II / Research & Implementation - Arlington / Texas a & M Transportation Institute
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Chief Financial Officer / Financial Services
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Software Applications Developer III / Research & Implementation - Houston
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Associate Transportation Researcher / Planning and Environment
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- Senior Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellows
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- Research Technician I / Research & Implementation - El Paso
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- Associate Transportation Researcher / Research & Implementation - El Paso
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- Administrative Associate II / Research & Implementation - El Paso
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- Director, Facilities, Safety, and Support Services / Facilities
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- Administrative Coordinator II / System
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Senior Research Scientist / Center for Alcohol and Drug Education Studies
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Senior IT Professional I / Research & Implementation - Arlington
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- Associate
- Research Scientist
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- Assistant Research Scientist / Planning
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- Software Applications Developer IV / Communications
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- Software Applications Developer III / Communications
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- Research & Implementation - El Paso
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- Communications Specialist III / Communications
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- Graduate Assistant - Research / Center for Railway Research
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- Financial Accountant III / Financial Services
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Director, Agency / Administration
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Senior Research Scientist / Administration
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Associate Research Scientist / Research & Implementation - Dallas
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- Associate Research Engineer
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- Senior Research Engineer / Center for Transportation Safety
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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- Controller / Financial Services
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- Project Coordinator I / Administration
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- Librarian IV / Communications
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- Associate Program Director / University Transportation Center
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- Associate Transportation Researcher in the Transit Mobility Division
Zachary Elgart is an associate transportation researcher in the Transit Mobility Division at TTI.… (more)
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Deputy Director, Agency / Administration