Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The August 2012 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 25 recent publications (July-August) from the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Cooperative Research Program. The research projects represented here are sponsored through the TxDOT Research and Technology Implementation Office (RTI) and cover a wide range of [...]

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The 2011 Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing has been awarded to S. Travis Waller for research published in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering from 2009-2011…

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Does your project require a data management plan in the proposal? Do you know the five main elements of a data management plan? If you need help in creating a plan, UT has a variety of resources to help you create a plan for specific funding agencies, including guidance and tools for plans. Visit the [...]

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Ten student interns participating in the Undergraduate Summer Internship in Transportation (USIT) at UT Austin presented topics in transportation research, sharing information about work in progress at The University of Texas at Austin. Students, research faculty, and staff at the Cockrell School of Engineering attended the presentation. Topics presented included analysis of the downtown Austin [...]

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Dr. Chandra Bhat, Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Engineering Our Built Environment for Accessibility, Reliability, and Safety” on July 11, 2012, at the Cockrell School of Engineering as part of a series of presentations by and for students engaged in transportation research. The lecture was attended [...]

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Dr. Stephen Boyles, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Transportation Networks and Optimization” on July 25, 2012, at the Cockrell School of Engineering as part of a series of presentations by and for students engaged in transportation research. This summer at the [...]

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Dr. Amit Bhasin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Infrastructure Materials and Pavements – The Road Ahead” on August 1, 2012, at the Cockrell School of Engineering. The talk was part of a series of presentations by and for students engaged in [...]

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Former UT Austin Ph.D. student, Nazneen Ferdous, supervised by Dr. Chandra Bhat of the Cockrell School of Engineering, received an Honorable Mention in the international 2011 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize for one of the top two dissertations in the travel behavior field (award presented at the 13th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Toronto, Canada, [...]

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