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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UT Austin’s AT&T conference today as part of the Texas Tribune Festival Trade & Transportation: Paying for Roads – The Great Debate. Photos and article by Clair LaVaye Summary Notes from “Paying for Roads – The Great Debate” Speakers opening presentations John Carona (State Senator, R-Dallas) There is a public misunderstanding about our [financial needs [...]

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At UT Austin’s AT&T conference today as part of the Texas Tribune Festival Trade & Transportation: The Future of Trade. Summary Notes from “The Future of Trade” Speakers opening presentations Gene Garza (Dir Field Ops, Dept of Homeland Security/US Customs & Border Protection): NAFTA has put extra trucks on I-35 and increased traffic on the [...]

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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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Elgin — along with a group of cities including Hutto, Lockhart, Dripping Springs and Austin — are going to be “planning demonstration sites” through the Sustainable Places Project. The project is made up of local governments and agencies serving Central Texas. Elgin — along with a group of cities including Hutto, Lockhart, Dripping Springs and [...]

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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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The October 2011 issue of the Research Digest highlights recent research publications from the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) that are available at the CTR Library and online. Each TxDOT report summarized in the digest is available for free download and links to the full-text PDFs are provided in the Digest. The reports are [...]

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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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