Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

View collections and sets of transportation-research images taken for the Center for Transportation Research, UT Austin. Many historical images, including a special collection of historical laboratory images from the Ferguson Structural Engineering Lab. FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctr_utaustin/

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Since 2000, New York City has implemented a number of city-wide infrastructure improvements designed to increase options for non-automobile transit; the recently released Sustainable Streets Index 2009 details the results of these changes. From 2003 to 2007, rising levels of mass transit ridership and bicycle commuting accompanied population and job growth in New York City, [...]

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The August 2010 Research Digest is now available. Recent reports from the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) are included in this digest.

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TEXAS Model for Intersection Traffic 1973 animation of a 4-leg all-way stop sign controlled intersection using the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 250 Display System channel connected to a CDC 6600 mainframe computer running the TEXAS Model. After all the vehicle positions were drawn on the vector refresh screen for a single time step increment (1 [...]

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced more than $13.8 million in grants to eight University Transportation Centers (UTC) located throughout the United States to advance research and education programs that address critical transportation challenges facing the nation. The awards were made by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and [...]

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The New York Times recently featured customized tricycles that have come into vogue for transporting children, groceries, and other precious cargo around the city. A handful of local bike shops make the cargo bikes to order, which seem pricey at an average of $3,000 until the savings in automobile or public transportation (combined with health [...]

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Dear Researchers, Staff and Students, This month we take a look at a highway safety. Visit the Official US Government Website for Distracted Driving, and take the Distracted Driving Challenge to learn the laws in your state! The site also contains distracted driving news. The CTR Library recently acquired a copy of the Highway Safety [...]

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Students associated with engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering won many awards during the UT Austin calendar year: Dr. Xiaokun Wang received the 2009 Young Researcher Award from the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Statistical Methods (ABJ80) for paper titled “Application of the Dynamic Spatial Ordered Probit Model: Patterns of Ozone Concentration in Austin, [...]

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