Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

As part of an on-going commitment to address congestion, the Texas Department of Transportation released a list of the 100 Most Congested Roadways. Topping this year’s list is a section of I-35W in Ft. Worth that caused Texas motorists to spend more than 2 million more hours traveling on a section of road that is [...]

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The Harry Ransom Center hosts “Visions of the Future,” the tenth biennial Flair Symposium. From November 1-3, the Ransom Center will bring together historians, architects, industrial designers, and visionaries in the fields of science fiction, film, theater, and future studies to explore the ways the future has been imagined over time. Author and curator Phil [...]

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The City of Austin and the Texas Department of Transportation launched a new website to keep the public informed as they are partnering with other transportation agencies to identify strategies to improve IH-35 through the metropolitan area: http://www.mobility35.org/. The City of Austin and the Texas Department of Transportation are partnering with other transportation agencies to [...]

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August 2012 will be the last FOCUS issue distributed in print. Stay up-to-date and receive FOCUS articles as soon as they are posted with an online subscription. Please go to  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/focus//index.cfm   and sign up to receive each new issue.

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TxDOT recently launched a new online map application that provides travelers with real-time traffic conditions, traffic and weather feeds about the 80,000 miles of road maintained by the state, as well as links to other useful travel information. Travelers can plot a course by entering their start and end cities to view highway conditions along [...]

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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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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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Selected papers from the 19th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory held in Berkeley, California (July 18-20, 2011) this year are now available in volume 17 of Procedia: Social and Behavorial Sciences. Though automobile traffic theory has remained a focus of this series, its scope has expanded over the years to include theoretical contributions [...]

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