Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

Elgin — along with a group of cities including Hutto, Lockhart, Dripping Springs and Austin — are going to be “planning demonstration sites” through the Sustainable Places Project. The project is made up of local governments and agencies serving Central Texas. Elgin — along with a group of cities including Hutto, Lockhart, Dripping Springs and [...]

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(image from http://www.wkrn.com/story/15365775/driver-t-boned-after-running-red-flashing-light) Intersections with flashing lights have three times more accidents than those with only stop signs and intersections with highway frontage roads are high risk, a University of Texas study released Monday said. The study, led by Cockrell School of Engineering Professor Chandra Bhat and his graduate students, Marisol Castro and Rajesh Paleti, [...]

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SriRamya Duddukuri Nair (pictured above), Karla Kruse, and Aaron Woods, three students who participate in research at the Construction Materials Research Group (CMRG), have received scholarships from the central Texas chapter of American Concrete Institute (ACI). The ACI (Texas Chapter) is comprised of a diverse group of individuals supporting the central Texas concrete industry including [...]

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An international road advocacy group recognized the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for the agency’s innovative four-year maintenance management plan that establishes best practices methodology to improve pavement conditions across the state. TxDOT received the International Road Federation’s 2011 Global Road Achievement Award in the category of maintenance management. The GRAA is an international competition [...]

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Now that the semester is over, take a break with some light reading! Pick up one of these great books for that long plane ride home. Click on the titles to find them at a library on campus. Bicycling Science, by David Gordon Wilson “The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it [...]

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Rajesh Paleti, one of Dr. Bhat’s current PhD students, is the 2011 recipient of the Dr. Robert Herman Award to the Most Outstanding Student from the transportation graduate programs of UT Austin, Texas A&M, and Texas Southern University. This award is made by the Southwest Region University Transportation Center, funded by the US Department of [...]

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Carey Blackmar, one of Dr. Chandra Bhat’s former M.S. students, is the 2011 recipient of the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for the best MS thesis in North America in the field of Transportation Policy and Planning. The award will be given at the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) banquet to be held in [...]

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SUBMIT ONLINE! Call for Papers & Presentations for the AREMA 2012 Annual Conference & Exposition September 16-19, 2012 Chicago, IL http://www.arema.org/meetings/2012conf/2012_call_for_papers.aspx The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) invites all interested parties to submit Papers on subjects of interest to the railway engineering community to be considered for publication and/or presentation at the AREMA [...]

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