Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), a state government entity and 1862 Land Grant College within the Texas A&M University System, delivers transportation research, safety analysis, and technical services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 73% of its recent awards and as a subcontractor on the remainder. TTI operates from College Station, Texas, with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint, competing full-and-open on research contracts and IDIQs across the transportation sector.

TTI's customer base concentrates heavily with the Department of Transportation. The Federal Highway Administration dominates both volume and dollars—119 awards with $204.5 million combined potential value, representing 76% of TTI's recent awards by count and approximately 90% of its combined potential value. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration represents 28 awards, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 6 awards ($11.7 million), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 9 awards ($10.1 million). Thirty federal agencies in total have issued awards to TTI, though the top customer concentration is stark and decision-relevant for competitive strategy.

TTI's capability portfolio centers on pedestrian and bicycle safety analysis, crash modification factor development, roadside safety hardware compliance testing, work zone safety, and traffic operations research. Recent prime contracts exemplify this scope: a $1.27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee FHWA task order for developing crash modification factors spanning pedestrians, left-turn lanes, curves, and roadway departure safety; a $734.6 thousand FHWA definitive contract for digital-twin enabled active safety analysis in mixed traffic environments; a $663 thousand FHWA purchase order for truck telematics data analysis to identify accident hazard roadway segments under Executive Order 14173; and a $450.5 thousand FHWA task order for multidisciplinary cost-benefit optimization models. TTI also holds a substantial grant footprint—most recently, a $687 thousand Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration grant (CFDA 20.237) to develop a predictive crash system for commercial motor vehicles in Texas, and a $4.5 million National Institute of Standards and Technology grant (CFDA 11.617) to establish a 21st Century Mobility Testbed at the Texas A&M–RELLIS Campus for connected and automated vehicle research.

TTI's primary vehicle position sits on the FHWA Highway Research and Development Services (HRDS) Technical Support Services $33 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded March 2022 through September 2027. This vehicle anchors the bulk of TTI's FHWA work, with numerous task orders for pedestrian safety research, roundabout operations analysis, systemic safety studies in tribal areas, and racial equity in transportation safety. TTI also holds positions on a NOAA single-award $4 million Indefinite Delivery contract for Southern Regional Climate Center services and participates in the FHWA Office of Safety Research and Development Technical Services Support IDIQ, among other smaller agency vehicles.

Activity trajectory shows growth concentrated in 2024, with 39 awards that year compared to 17 in 2022 and 19 in 2023. Recent years (2025–2026) show modulation to 14 and 12 awards respectively, suggesting variable annual volume. Twelve awards (combined potential value $7.3 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in near-term windows.

In its subcontractor role, TTI delivers transportation research and technical support to larger primes including ICF Incorporated (which has awarded TTI multiple BPA calls since 2024 for freight mobility trends, work zone safety toolkits, congestion analysis, and border wait-time technology evaluation), Eastern Research Group Inc. (for mobile source emissions testing and air quality impact assessments), Texas State University (for railroad pedestrian trespass behavioral analysis), and the University of Maryland College Park (for performance management research data support). Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, TTI invoiced $8.8 million from FY2022 through FY2024, with median government-paid hourly rates around $162/hr on prime contracts and a 90th percentile rate of $438/hr. The institute delivered roughly 11 FTEs on reportable prime service contracts in FY2022, declining to 5–7 FTEs in FY2023–FY2024. Across those SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 19% of total hours, with 21 named subcontractors recorded, indicating TTI builds capability through a mix of internal staffing and subcontract leveraging.

TTI's grant work as a recipient spans multiple federal programs and includes University Transportation Centers funding (CFDA 20.514) as part of a Texas A&M–led consortium, Federal Transit Administration cooperative agreements for mobility performance metrics demonstration, and FMCSA safety grants focused on commercial motor vehicle crash prevention, work zone safety, teen driver peer-to-peer education, agricultural worker safety, and truck parking analysis. TTI also receives sub-award funding through the National Academy of Sciences on transportation research topics ranging from right-of-way management to highway safety manual development, and sits as a sub-recipient on University of Arkansas–led Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC) grants focusing on marine and multimodal transportation expertise.