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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Image of Trans-Texas Corridor, TxDOT

In January, TxDOT scaled down the Trans-Texas Corridor project and dropped its name.  Now transportation officials announce that the project is officially terminated.
The Trans-Texas Corridor was originally pitched as an innovative way to pay for congestion improvements and reduce truck and train gridlock in metro areas. But opponents seized on several [...]

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Want to know the 100 most congested roads in Texas? TxDOT has an online list of the state’s most congested roads. You can view the information as a map or a list. If you click on a specific roadway, you will see additional information on current congestion and a pavement conditions map, as well as [...]

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In a recent letter posted to the Web, according to Smart Brief the “ISA contends that the research being conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is biased against digital signs, uninformed as to the differences between digital billboards and on-premise EMCs, and exclusionary in leaving the on-premise sign industry entirely out of the process.”
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Find the latest updates from TxDOT’s twitter pages. Find them all at: http://www.txdot.gov/news/twitter_feeds.htm

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Read a PDF posted by the Texas Department of Transportation on the Value of Transportation Research. (PDF, 800 K)

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