City Of Fort Worth: Texas A&M, Hillwood Announce Research Partnership

Press release from City of Fort Worth:

July 08, 2021

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) entered into an agreement with Hillwood as AllianceTexas’ official Mobility Innovation Zone research partner.

Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development is located next to the world’s first dedicated industrial airport, Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The partnership will leverage the experience and expertise of TTI’s nationally recognized team of researchers and forward-thinkers with the Mobility Innovation Zone’s capacity and capabilities.

TTI will conduct research, manage strategic initiatives for the Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) and serve as a think tank for new opportunities in mobility at AllianceTexas. Unlike anywhere else in the nation, the Mobility Innovation Zone provides partner organizations the scale, infrastructure and environment for the commercialization of emerging technologies in air and surface mobility.

“As budding surface and air mobility technologies take off, our research partnership with Hillwood at the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone reinforces TTI’s ongoing commitment to testing and scaling innovations that impact the way we live,” said Greg Winfree, TTI agency director. “The location and capabilities that the Mobility Innovation Zone offers provide an unparalleled sandbox for research and development of the technologies that will move business, goods and people forward.”

Already taking advantage of the MIZ, technology pioneers such as Bell and TuSimple have established a presence at AllianceTexas. In February, Bell launched its autonomous pod transport operations, becoming North Texas’ first point-to-point unmanned aircraft system package delivery demonstration, and TuSimple’s Alliance-based facility offers autonomous trucking operations that run throughout the Texas Triangle freight corridor.

Photo: AllianceTexas is home to the Mobility Innovation Zone, a one-of-a-kind infrastructure in far north Fort Worth offering mobility visionaries access to a testing ecosystem, resources and partnerships essential to test, scale and commercialize technologies.

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