Center for Transportation Research News

A new research study conducted at Queensland University of Technology’s International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health found that ultrafine particles can become concentrated inside of roadway tunnels at levels sufficiently high enough to potentially to drivers and passengers.
Study co-author and director of Queensland University of Technology’s International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Professor [...]

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United States Fire Administration (USFA), in partnership with the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA), has released the “Emergency Vehicle Visibility and Conspicuity Study.”
The report provides recommendations to improve emergency vehicle and roadway operations safety for firefighters, law enforcement officers, EMS providers and others who must work on roads during emergencies. The U.S. Department of [...]

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This guidebook illustrates the economic impact of Texas ports. It updates a similar study done a decade earlier, and so assisted TxDOT with incorporating the most recent marine port impacts into their state transportation planning.  Almost all the larger Texas ports had undertaken economic impact studies and were understandably concerned about any new study providing [...]

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Cities are organized much like brains, and evolve in a similar way, according to a new study led by Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Rhode Island.

Just as advanced brains require a robust net work of cell connections to achieve more complex thought, large cities need advanced highways and transportation systems to [...]

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The Mineta Transportation Institute, housed at San Jose State University, has published a report to help campuses consider potential transportation problems as part of their crisis planning.
The report, “The Role of Transportation in Campus Emergency Planning,” provides practical information about how universities and campuses settings can address the transportation aspects of disaster response and recovery. [...]

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Dr. Yetkin Yildirim, Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Transportation Research, has released a collection of fifteen journals related to the topic of pavement preservation.
Dr. Yildirim is the project manager of the Superpave and Asphalt Research Program as well as the director of the Texas Pavement Preservation Center. For more information, contact Dr. Yildirim [...]

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The Transportation Research Board (TRB) released a report on the role of planning and transportation on carbon emissions: “TRB Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment: Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions.”
Developing or redeveloping community to feature new more dense housing and mixed use communities has a positive [...]

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Student researcher Calvin Tribby, University of New Mexico, won an URISA award for the paper, “Construction of a Household-level Public Transportation Accessibility Model.”
“This research details the construction of a public transportation accessibility model, with a focus on the necessity of using travel time as the accessibility measure. The primary objective of this work is [...]

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