Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The March Research Digest highlights recent TxDOT Research Reports. The issue is available online as a PDF. Recent reports from CTR, TechMRT, and TTI are included in the digest.  Links to full-text PDFs for each report are provided in the digest. The Research Digest is a monthly newsletter targeted towards TxDOT staff and researchers. The goal of [...]

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Women are invited to take the online survey being conducted by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP). The survey ends on May 15. Take the survey. The APBP is also hosting a free webinar on March 31 entitled Writing Women Back into Bicycling. The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals is the only [...]

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Dr. Kara M. Kockelman as been appointed to the USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Advisory Council. The Advisory Council for Transportation Statistic (ACTS) is composed of six members appointed by the Director. The members are chosen on the basis of their expertise in transportation statistics, economics, and analysis. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), as [...]

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Responding to demand among its bicycle-riding fans, Google Maps today gave U.S. users the ability to get biking directions in addition to driving, public transportation and walking routes. Google’s Shannon Guymon said the project had been in the works for a while because “we knew that when we added the feature, we wanted to do [...]

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According to the latest projected numbers on highway deaths, the USDOT says that total traffic deaths declined nearly 9 percent in 2009. Factors that may be contributing to this are more people are buckling up, new safety innovations, and the economy. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he was encouraged by the data but said there [...]

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“When the earthquake occurred, our organization decided to send a team,” Rathje said. “I was the leader, and I put the team together.” A veteran of visiting disaster sites, Rathje said the intensity of the Haiti quake was comparable to that of the 1995 earthquake in Turkey. While Turkey sustained damage during the ’95 quake, [...]

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Already a bicycle utopia, The Netherlands are upping the ante yet again by introducing a street-embedded lighting system to help cyclists avoid stopping at red lights. As Austin On Two Wheels reports: Back in December, we shared a video that mentioned how Copenhagen is so focused on making bikes the preferred form of transportation that [...]

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Congratulations to Chandra Bhat for being selected by the Student Engineering Council to receive the Most Outstanding Faculty Award for Civil Engineering. Congratulations to Ken Stokoe for being selected to receive the 2010 H. Bolton Seed Medal from the Geo-Institute of ASCE. He was recognized “for contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering including the behavior of [...]

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