Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) has posted a video on Youtube summarizing results of the TxDOT project 5-9046-01. The video is titled “Benefits of Diamond Grinding of CRC Pavements.” The project studied the long-term benefits of grooving pavement utilizing diamond grinding. View the YouTube Clip

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Foldable Cars The MIT Media Lab envisions Hiriko foldable cars finding a home in car-share programs where members drive available vehicles and park them at local charging stations. Read more: http://futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10252075-foldable-electric-car-debuts-in-europe Youtube clip

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The latest edition of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest contains abstracts for 24 recent publications about freight and commercial vehicle operations from three of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Cooperative Research Programs: CTBSSP, NCFRP, and HMCRP. All of the reports mentioned in this Digest are available both at the [...]

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A paper co-authored by Dr. Zhanmin Zhang, a civil engineering associate professor and Fellow of the Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering of at The University of Texas at Austin, and two of his transportation graduate students, Epigmenio Gonzalez and Wenxing Liu, were selected to receive the Best Paper Award by the 8th [...]

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Dr. Zhanmin Zhang, a civil engineering associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin, received the James Laurie Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The James Laurie Prize is awarded annually to a member of the society for contributions to the advancement of transportation engineering. Dr. Zhang was recognized “for his [...]

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Please help us to assess the value of the CTR Library. The data collected is confidential and will be used in a toolkit for librarians. Questions should take 5-10 minutes to answer. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/libcon The survey runs from March 19 to April 16. Your participation is an important part of a project with the Transportation Library [...]

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The Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) has organized a free public workshop and meeting on March 14-15  to discuss the AERIS Program (Applications for the Environment: Real-Time Information Synthesis) and solicit user needs for its Transformative Concepts. Transformative Concepts are integrated operational concepts that use V2V, V2I, and other data and communications [...]

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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) recently launched the U.S. DOT Research Hub website, a searchable database of the latest agency-sponsored research, development, and technology projects. The database acts as a central location for information on projects funded by U.S. DOT operating administrations, providing access to the Department’s research portfolio [...]

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