Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The April 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.

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The Texas Department of Transportation has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Articles about state agencies using these interactive site suggest that they can work hand-in-hand with news outlets to share breaking information that affects the agency and the public. TxDOT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=44520755873 TxDOT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/txdot

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UT Alum, former SWUTC graduate researcher and Advanced Institute Fellow, Nicholas Lownes, MS, 2005, PhD., 2007, has been appointed Director of the Center for Transportation and Urban Planning (CTUP) at the University of Connecticut. CTUP is part of the national University Transportation Centers Program, supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Nicholas Lownes is currently [...]

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Johan Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired, has written a new book called How We Decide. In the book, Lehrer describes the process of choosing a residence in terms of choice of commute, finding that Americans often make the classic “weighting mistake” when choosing a home. Consider two housing options: a three bedroom apartment that is [...]

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Dr. Kara Kockelman has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) to receive one of the 2010 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes. The award citation will read: “For her contributions in the areas of data acquisition and analysis for highway safety, urban systems forecasting, vehicle design, road pricing, spatial statistics [...]

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Kara Kockelman of the University of Texas at Austin, along with John Bottom and other contributors, prepared a report on the topic for the Transportation Research Board (the gold standard of transportation bodies). It showed that being on a road with a 65 mph limit instead of 55 mph means a 3 percent higher probability [...]

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