Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

On June 22, I attended an introductory webinar sponsored by TRB and several state DOTs on knowledge management practices. Speakers provided information on how knowledge management practices are being used in federal and state transportation organizations today and discussed how these practices help preserve instituitonal knowledge. We also shared several resources including these resources…… Virginia [...]

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The June 2011 issue of the Research Digest highlights recently published reports from research sponsored by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Each report summarized in the Digest is available both in the library and online for free download; links to the full-text PDFs are provided in the Digest. The Research Digest is a monthly newsletter [...]

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Overweight trucks are taking a toll on the state’s highways and bridges, state and industry executives say, and Tulsa Oklahoma is setting up a new state-of-the-weigh station. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences said one legal 80,000-pound tractor-trailer truck does as much damage to road pavement as 9,600 cars. An illegal [...]

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The city of Houston together with the Houston-Galveston Area Council is in the process of conducting a pedestrian and bicycle study for Clear Lake. The focus of the study is to address the safety and mobility needs of pedestrians and bicyclists within the Clear Lake area, with an extra emphasis on providing connections to major [...]

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The Center for Transportation Research (CTR) is now on Facebook. The goal of the new Facebook page is to allow students and researchers to have a community page for announcements about transportation matters, events related to student transportation events on campus for ITE and ITS. CTR will be announcing a photo contest for engineering students [...]

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The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) is providing notice that it intends to conduct a competition for University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program grants for the purpose of performing multi-modal and multidisciplinary research, education and technology transfer activities supportive of Departmental priorities. Proposals will be evaluated through [...]

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The Center for Transportation Research has released a report spanning FY 2009- FY 2010. http://www.utexas.edu/research/ctr/pdf_reports/annual_report_2009_10.pdf

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From Science.house.gov; testimony by John S. Halikowski, Director of the Arizona DOT, on transportation research priorities for the next surface transportation authorization bill. The return on the states’ investment in research is substantial. In just one example, a formal cost analysis in 2003 prepared for the Indiana Department of Transportation’s research program, jointly administered with [...]

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