TxDOT Innovation Catalog
About the innovation catalog
The catalog provides an overview of innovation efforts across TxDOT to help the agency and its partners discover ideas, learn what works, and reduce duplicative efforts.
How to use the innovation catalog
- Use the catalog filters to explore innovations by year, category, or innovator (district/division).
- Use the keyword search bar to find innovations by name or description.
- Click any innovation to see project details, or access the alternate links below the catalog table.
- Download the dataset using the button at the bottom of the page.
Explore innovative projects
- Access management analysis using connected vehicle data
- Access planning for rapid growth in rural communities
- Adaptive signal operations using crowd-sourced speed data
- Advance warning of end-of-green system (AWEGS)
- Alternative delivery system decision-support tool 2.0
- Automated lane closure alerting using smart work zone technologies
- CCTV on solar power
- Connected signals
- ConnectU2Jobs highway construction workforce partnership program
- Construction specific traveler information
- Coordinating multiple smart work zones in a corridor
- Dynamic winter weather alert messaging
- Emergency evacuation surveillance for efficiency
- Enhanced driveway permitting process
- Enhanced notification of speed reductions and collisions using third-party data
- Ice mitigation procedures for permeable friction course (PFC) pavements
- IH-10 freeway adaptive signal control
- Illumination outage application
- Improved process for bridge follow up actions (FUA)
- Innovations to reduce rural two-lane roadway departure crashes
- Multi-resolution modeling to monetize construction impacts
- Next generation wrong way driving countermeasures
- Nighttime inspection suite of applications
- Numetric crash data analysis tool
- Optimize the use of existing ITS infrastructure (video analytics) to detect freeway incidents
- Pedestrian detection and alerts on Loop 375 Border Highway
- Public participation and engagement
- Real-time rail crossing monitoring system
- Remote connection to school zone flashers
- Safer by design safety scoring tool
- Safety project before/after analysis with connected vehicle data
- Selecting emerging safety hot spots for priority funding
- Shallow rutting in flexible pavements
- Shift from cameras to radar
- Slope repair and maintenance management system (SRMMS)
- Snowplow operations management system
- Tools and strategies to mitigate end of queue crashes
- Traffic sign identification and location extraction from roadway images
- Traffic signal responsiveness solution
- TranStar roadway flood warning system
- TxSTORM data tool
- Upgrading maritime warning lights solution
- Using AI and machine learning to assess pavement markings
- Using AI to detect blocked railroad grade crossings
- Weather responsive management strategies
- Wrong way driving countermeasures
- Wrong-way driver detection system - non-fully access-controlled facility
- Wrong-way driving (WWD) detection in one-way work zones