Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

UT Austin engineering student Dan Fagnant has been selected to author the Annual William P. Eno Research Paper for the Eno Center for Transportation. The paper, to be co-authored with UT engineering professor Dr. Kara Kockelman, will be on the subject of autonomous vehicles. The paper will be published in the winter of 2013 and [...]

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Dr. Chandra Bhat, the Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, assumed the role of director of the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) on September 1, 2012. For more information on Dr. Bhat and CTR, see the article on the Cockrell School website. Read [...]

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The December 2011 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download; it highlights recent research publications from the Texas Department of Transportation Research Program, which is sponsored through the Research and Technology Implementation Office (RTI). The reports abstracted in this Digest cover many topics related to transportation in Texas from research on traffic [...]

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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) recently announced that, after a hiatus of several years, they are reintroducing their peer-reviewed  Journal of Transportation and Statistics (JT&S). They have issued a call for papers for the first issue, which will focus on Transportation Safety. We invite submissions relating to any mode of transportation, with an emphasis [...]

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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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2011 Urban mobility study covered by local news network in Austin: Austin’s growth is showing up in the morning and afternoon commutes. According to the 2011 Urban Mobility report produced by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M , in 1982 Austinites spent an average nine hours a year in traffic. In 2010, that figure [...]

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Students participating in the transportation research programs pose with the Dean: (left to right) Donna Chen, Arash Motomed, Daniel Evans, Cockrell Dean Gregory L. Fenves, Ambarish Banerjee, Dan Fagnant, Mason Gemar, Epi Gonzalez. Even though it’s hot here, a lot of students still think Austin, Texas, is the coolest place to be. Ambarish Banerjee loves [...]

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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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