Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

A new transportation app will be in its testing phase during Austin’s South by Southwest music and media festival. The RideScout app aggregates ground transportation options so users can compare them in real time. As an incentive to help test the app, RideScout is offering free van and shuttle rides, which the app will track. If you’d [...]

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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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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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Professor Kara Kockelman responds to the question “What in your field could make the world a better place?” With population and standards of living rising, associated transportation congestion, energy demands and environmental impacts are serious concerns. In terms of advances that will enhance our future, I am most excited about vehicle sharing, vehicle propulsion and [...]

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ASTM International 100 Barr Harbor Dr., Box C700 West Conshohocken, PA, 19428-2959, USA Press release date: March 25, 2011 W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-A workshop on Sustainability of Road and Paving Materials will be held on Dec. 6, 2011, at the Marriott Waterside Tampa in Tampa, Fla. Sponsored by ASTM International Committee D04 on Road and Paving [...]

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A PBS examines electric cars and Austin, Texas. Electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf are rolling into a handful of U.S. cities. Austin, Texas is one of them. It’s no coincidence General Motors (NYSE: GM) picked the city as a launch market for the Volt. It has an educated, eco-friendly workforce. Diane [...]

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USNewswire/ — In last night’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called for the United States to “… become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.” The IEEE-USA Electric Vehicles & Personal Transportation Workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities to make that vision a reality. [...]

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The car pictured above is a project of Google. [Google] has been working in secret but in plain view on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver. The project is the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, the 43-year-old director [...]

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