Texas Mobility Outlook covers transportation in Greater Houston, Southeast Texas and the rest of the state: road safety, commercial trucking, freight, highways, infrastructure projects, crash data and the rules that govern them. It publishes at tmohouston.net. The first pages went live on Oct. 8, 2026.
What Texas Mobility Outlook publishes
Most pages start from a public record. TxDOT’s annual crash tables, NHTSA’s fatality files, FMCSA’s inspection data, TTI’s congestion rankings, Port Houston’s volume reports and the Federal Register all publish numbers that matter to people in Houston. They rarely publish them in one place, with the same definitions, or with plain explanations.
Texas Mobility Outlook publishes five kinds of pages:
- Data pages compile one dataset, such as Harris County crash statistics, with the source, data date and a CSV download.
- Corridor guides cover one highway at a time, starting with I-45: traffic counts, congestion ranks, projects and safety records.
- Rules explainers set out what a regulation requires, with its section number and effective date. The hours-of-service page is one.
- Research notes test a claim or compare sources. The first traces the claim that I-45 is America’s deadliest highway.
- Reports explain a topic, such as how Port Houston’s containers reach the road.
Who it is for
Pages are written for people who need a figure they can stand behind: reporters, researchers, planners, carriers and fleet safety managers, students, and residents who want to know what the records say about the roads they use every day.
How the work is done
Every figure on the site links to the document it came from. Numbers that Texas Mobility Outlook calculates, such as shares and percent changes, are labeled as Texas Mobility Outlook’s arithmetic. When two official sources disagree, the page shows both. When a figure could not be verified, the page says so in a marked box instead of estimating it.
The editorial policy sets out these rules in full, and the sources and methodology page explains the definitions and data dates behind the tables.
Independence
Texas Mobility Outlook is an independent publication and is not affiliated with The Metropolitan Organization.
Texas Mobility Outlook is not a government agency, a law firm or a transportation company. It has no affiliation with TxDOT, the City of Houston, Harris County, Port Houston or any federal agency, and none of them reviews pages before publication. Nothing published here is legal advice. See the disclaimer for details.
Pages appear under the Texas Mobility Outlook Editorial byline.
Get in touch
Send data questions, tips and correction requests through the contact page, or write to editorial@tmohouston.net. The corrections policy explains what happens next. To hear when new data is published, sign up for the newsletter.