Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

Meredith Cebelak, P.E., was recently selected to represent The University of Texas at Austin at the 21st Annual Leadership Development Conference, hosted by the Eno Center for Transportation. This conference, held in Washington DC June 2–6, is attended by 20 of the nation’s top graduate students in transportation and gives them a first-hand look at [...]

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The Harry Ransom Center hosts “Visions of the Future,” the tenth biennial Flair Symposium. From November 1-3, the Ransom Center will bring together historians, architects, industrial designers, and visionaries in the fields of science fiction, film, theater, and future studies to explore the ways the future has been imagined over time. Author and curator Phil [...]

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Ferguson Lab held its annual barbecue and fall celebration of transportation research conducted by its research students and faculty. For pictures, visit the CTR Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctr_utaustin/sets/72157631612673812/

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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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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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Ten student interns participating in the Undergraduate Summer Internship in Transportation (USIT) at UT Austin presented topics in transportation research, sharing information about work in progress at The University of Texas at Austin. Students, research faculty, and staff at the Cockrell School of Engineering attended the presentation. Topics presented included analysis of the downtown Austin [...]

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Dr. Stephen Boyles, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Transportation Networks and Optimization” on July 25, 2012, at the Cockrell School of Engineering as part of a series of presentations by and for students engaged in transportation research. This summer at the [...]

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Dr. Amit Bhasin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Infrastructure Materials and Pavements – The Road Ahead” on August 1, 2012, at the Cockrell School of Engineering. The talk was part of a series of presentations by and for students engaged in [...]

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