Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month and TxDOT launched the Talk. Text. Crash. campaign to coincide with the national promotion. Throughout this month, TxDOT will reach out to Texans through community events, TV public service announcements, and online and outdoor advertising.  As part of the campaign, TxDOT is asking Texans to do their part [...]

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The Safety Community is a new open government initiative to increase awareness of and deepening insights into our Nation’s public safety activities. The Safety Community is where data and insight are combined to facilitate a discussion around and awareness of our Nation’s public safety activities. Whether you are interested in crime, roadway safety, or safety [...]

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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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The Texas Tribune’s Second Annual Festival, held on the campus of UT Austin, begins this Friday night. The Tribune brings more than 150 speakers who will discuss a broad range of topics, including health and human services, law and order, public and higher education, energy and the environment, and race and immigration. The festival runs Friday, Sept. [...]

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UT students, researchers, City of Austin and San Antonio city planners, TxDOT coordinators, bicyclists, and representatives of Movability Austin will gather for two days in Austin at VeloTexas to promote the use of bicycles and safety in Texas. “Through this effort we hope to promote bicycle use as a basic travel mode — but maybe [...]

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(image from http://www.wkrn.com/story/15365775/driver-t-boned-after-running-red-flashing-light) Intersections with flashing lights have three times more accidents than those with only stop signs and intersections with highway frontage roads are high risk, a University of Texas study released Monday said. The study, led by Cockrell School of Engineering Professor Chandra Bhat and his graduate students, Marisol Castro and Rajesh Paleti, [...]

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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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LBJ Freeway in Dallas, Texas, will be down to two lanes in each direction all this weekend. LBJ Infrastructure Group — the Spanish toll firm Cintra and its partners — is busy turning crowded LBJ Freeway into a sparkling new, but still crowded, freeway with optional toll lanes. For more information and an animated video [...]

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