Center for Transportation Research News

Editor Note: As an update to the passage of the Master Bike Plan, Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of Austin in Department of Public Works, has provided this update on the implementation of the plan.

Colored bike lane on Dean Keaton East of IH 35.

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From the National Academies, technical presentation on hot mix asphalt.
More details at http://TRB.org/SHRP2 This video shows a demonstration of an infrared bar being used for quality control and measurement of new hot mix asphalt layers during paving operations. This demonstration was part of Renewal Project R06C: Using Both Infrared and High-Speed Ground Penetrating Radar for Uniformity [...]

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Dr. C. Michael Walton, professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, received the Texas Road Hand Award from the Texas Department of Transportation for his public spirit in championing transportation projects. The award recognizes citizens who have given their time, energy and vision to help improve transportation throughout the state.
Walton holds [...]

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September 30, 2009 - Michael Ramage, former executive vice president of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, and James Sweeney, professor of economics at Stanford University, discuss the conclusions of the National Academy of Sciences report entitled America’s Energy Future with a focus on the sections dealing with liquid transportation fuels.
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Joseph A. Yura, emeritus professor, was inducted as an honorary member into the Adademy of Distinguished Alumni. Although he did not attend UT-Austin, his outstanding service to the department as a faculty member is recognized.
Each of the new inductees received at least one degree from the department and are outstanding in their field, leaders in [...]

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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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Researchers from University of Castilla-La Mancha have developed an artificial intelligence software that could detect aberrant pedestrian and automotive behavior at crosswalks.
“We have developed an intelligence surveillance software and related theoretical model in order to define ‘normality’ in any setting one wishes to monitor, such as a traffic scenario”, David Vallejo, from the ORETO Applied [...]

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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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Dr. Susan Handy, University of California, Davis.
Article quotes Dr. Susan, Handy, who worked at UT Austin and performed transportation studies though the Center for Transportation Research, on the hidden hybrid that cuts down on the use of vehicles: available neighborhood shops.
Academics who study travel behavior say that the presence of neighborhood businesses is a major [...]

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An article by economists, Lucas W. Davis, Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Matthew E. Kahn, Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the UCLA Department of Economics and the UCLA Department of Public Policy, suggests that the “Cash for Clunkers” program might have unintended [...]

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