Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The October 2011 issue of the Research Digest highlights recent research publications from the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) that are available at the CTR Library and online. Each TxDOT report summarized in the digest is available for free download and links to the full-text PDFs are provided in the Digest. The reports are [...]

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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) recently announced that, after a hiatus of several years, they are reintroducing their peer-reviewed  Journal of Transportation and Statistics (JT&S). They have issued a call for papers for the first issue, which will focus on Transportation Safety. We invite submissions relating to any mode of transportation, with an emphasis [...]

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LBJ Freeway in Dallas, Texas, will be down to two lanes in each direction all this weekend. LBJ Infrastructure Group — the Spanish toll firm Cintra and its partners — is busy turning crowded LBJ Freeway into a sparkling new, but still crowded, freeway with optional toll lanes. For more information and an animated video [...]

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Researchers at UT Austin are conducting a motor vehicle crash survey as part of a research study on transportation. Motor vehicle crash is a serious threat to community’s wellbeing: in Texas, 1 person was killed in motor vehicle crash every 2 hours 50 minutes and 1 person was injured every 2 minutes 14 seconds. Graduate [...]

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For decades, scientists have been trying to find ways to mass-produce algae as a viable source of fuel for vehicles. High costs and environmental factors have created insurmountable roadblocks. Now, researchers hope, a new facility at the University of Texas will help them move closer to that goal. “You need three things to grow algae: [...]

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