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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  Dr. Randy B. Machemehl, Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, and VeloTexas organizer Gonzalo Camacho.  Photos, article by Clair LaVaye Forth Worth Mayor Betsy Price says that Texans need to get aggressive and creative about solving congestion issues. She gave an update on Fort Worth’s efforts to develop bicycling facilities to encourage transportation alternatives on Friday at [...]

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Save 10% on your meal (food and alcohol) if you bike to participating restaurants during Austin’s Bike to Eat Week (Sunday May 27th – Thursday May 31st 2012).  For more information visit www.biketoeatweek.org

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 A new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund and the Frontier Group demonstrates that Americans have been driving less since the middle of last decade. The report, Transportation and the New Generation: Why Young People are Driving Less and What it Means for Transportation Policy, [...]

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Plan on attending the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW) in March, but dreading the traffic?  Here are some alternative ways to get around town without fighting for parking. A new service will be available this year for SXSW platinum, gold, interactive, and film badge holders: bike sharing (so long as supplies last). [...]

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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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