Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month and TxDOT launched the Talk. Text. Crash. campaign to coincide with the national promotion. Throughout this month, TxDOT will reach out to Texans through community events, TV public service announcements, and online and outdoor advertising.  As part of the campaign, TxDOT is asking Texans to do their part [...]

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The October 2012 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 32 recent publications (August-October) 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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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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UT Austin’s AT&T conference today as part of the Texas Tribune Festival Trade & Transportation: One-on-One with Phil Wilson. Summary Notes from “One-on-One with Phil Wilson” Speakers Phil Wilson, TxDOT Director and Tribune reporter Aman Batheja I had a great first year. My first task was to tour the 25 districts. You get a sense [...]

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The Texas Tribune’s Second Annual Festival, held on the campus of UT Austin, begins this Friday night. The Tribune brings more than 150 speakers who will discuss a broad range of topics, including health and human services, law and order, public and higher education, energy and the environment, and race and immigration. The festival runs Friday, Sept. [...]

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UT students, researchers, City of Austin and San Antonio city planners, TxDOT coordinators, bicyclists, and representatives of Movability Austin will gather for two days in Austin at VeloTexas to promote the use of bicycles and safety in Texas. “Through this effort we hope to promote bicycle use as a basic travel mode — but maybe [...]

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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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The June 2012 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 31 recent publications (May and June) from the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Research Program. The research projects represented here are sponsored through the TxDOT Research and Technology Implementation Office (RTI) and cover a wide range [...]

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