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Texas saves dollars THE BATTALION Page 3 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1975 New study method costs less The Texas Transportation In stitute (TTI) in a joint effort with the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transpor tation has developed an urban transportation study method that is estimated to have already saved the State in excess of $1 million in Houston-Galveston regional transportation studies. Still more savings to the state are anticipated as this new sys tem is applied in the other 23 Texas urban areas that have over 50,000 population. Under an interagency agree ment with the highway depart ment, TAMU’s TTI will continue to provide staff and technical sup port to the department. “With these urban transporta tion studies, the TDH works with the cities in looking at their transportation needs for the fu ture,” said Dr. Vergil Stover, who heads the TTI group. “From these studies, the cities and state can identify needed transporta tion improvements, set priorities and schedule needed highway, street, and transit improvements. As the state grows, we will have to provide more ways for people to move.” “In our work with the TDH, we will continue to seek improved and more cost effective methods for conducting these studies,” said Jim Benson, principal project investigator. “In the case of the new procedures used in the Hous ton-Galveston study, the TDH was faced with the problem of increas ing costs of conducting the tradi tional home interview surveys used in such a study. At the same time, they were encountering an increasing reluctance on the part of citizens to cooperate in such surveys. “This created the need for pro cedures which have considerably smaller data requirements,” Ben son said. “Previous research con ducted under this project sug gested that equally reliable re sults might be obtained by using previous study results with much less extensive new data collec tion to update it. It’s through these reduced data requirements that the major cost savings are being realized. “Much of our current efforts are being directed toward the de velopment of a ‘sketch planning’ procedure which will allow urban areas to evaluate the range of land use and transportation sys tem alternatives for the future,” Stover said. “The intent of these procedures is to provide a quick and economical means of per forming a preliminary evaluation of these future growth alterna tives. “The TDH is also making ex tensive use of several minor com puter program packages devel oped under this project,” he said. “We are responsible for the con tinued maintenance and improve ment of these computer programs which are essential in order to meet the changing needs of the TDH and to put into use new and improved techniques as they become available. “Under this project, we also provide staff support and assist ance as various technical problems are encountered in the studies across the state,” Stover said. “It is through this close-working involvement that we are made constantly aware of the day to day technical problems and can better direct our development of better transportation studies.” A Diamond in your Aggie Ring . . —the final touch. ^ Carl Bussells X/fliAMOND Room 3731 E. 29 846-4708 MEM DC ft AMCnff GEM SOGILIY Weather systems studied Every shower, hail storm, tor nado or balmy breeze that consti tutes the local weather is part of a great large-scale weather system. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded $19,(X)0 toTAMU meteorologists to help fit the pieces together. They are conducting Atmospheric Varia bility Experiments using satellites and weather-balloon soundings. The College of Geosciences group, headed by Dr. James R. Scoggins, is collecting data at three-hour intervals from 40 sta tions in the eastern United States. The readings include temperature, pressure, and humidity up to 100,000 feet. “The atmosphere is composed of weather systems of different sizes, ” Scoggins said. “The sizes range from great high and low pressure systems to local showers and thunderstorms. “We can’t possibly predict them accurately with the current twice- daily readings from the National Weather Service,” he said. “But we feel we can improve predictions with readings every three hours. “Our objectives are three-fold,” Scoggins said. “First we want to study severe storms and how they relate to larger weather systems so we can forecast them. Secondly, we are evaluating the accuracy and util ity of weather satellite data. To do this we must correlate ground read ings with satellite data at the same place and the same time. “Finally the group is developing a better procedure for determining the wind speed from cloud move ments,” he said. “We re evaluating how clouds move in relation to the ambient wind. Satellite data is used to observe motion from which the wind field lean be reconstructed. Parade field undergoes resurfacing TAMU’s historic parade field is getting a face-lifting. The nine-acre spread near the heart of the campus of the state’s first public institution of higher learning has taken a pounding over the years, primarily from the heels of the Coips of Cadets passing in review. The pounding has been compounded in recent years by Aggie rugby and lacrosse teams and many a pick-up touch football game. Eugene Ray, TAMU’s grounds maintenance director, said crews assigned to the project have re ported encounteringcompacted soil “hard as a rock” several inches below the surface. Ray said 1,000 cubic yards of fill material have been hauled in and distributed in low spots to improve drainage. The area will be seeded, although much of the existing grass is expected to survive. 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