Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

2011 Urban mobility study covered by local news network in Austin: Austin’s growth is showing up in the morning and afternoon commutes. According to the 2011 Urban Mobility report produced by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M , in 1982 Austinites spent an average nine hours a year in traffic. In 2010, that figure [...]

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The September 2011 issue of the Research Digest highlights the new Best Practices Video Summary Reports from TxDOT’s Research and Technology Implementation Office (RTI). These are available on YouTube and are also indexed in the CTR Library catalog. Each summary in the Digest includes a link to the online resource. This issue and the archive [...]

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The Dallas Observer blog has posted the LBJ Express project’s sneak preview of the lane closures about to hit LBJ Freeway this weekend, as the Joe Ratclifff Pedestrian Walkway meets its maker at 1 a.m. Sunday. But before the closure, beginning at 7 Saturday night, eastbound traffic shrinks down to one whole lane at Webb [...]

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TxDOT’s “Happy Hour FAIL” online video recently won a 2010-2011 National Silver ADDY Award from the American Advertising Federation (AAF) in the public service category. The 30-second animated video is part of TxDOT’s fall college DWI-prevention campaign. The video is illustrated through social media. View the video at http://www.youtube.com/drivingtonight

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We have posted a YouTube tutorial on using the Advanced Search function in our catalog. Please view the clip and let us know what you think! The clip is located below…. http://library.ctr.utexas.edu/dbtw-wpd/textbase/Help.htm

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TRID’s new Youtube library tour was just posted. It’s a brief introduction to TRID http://trid.trb.org, the transportation research database from the Transportation Research Board http://trb.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGnMEogML6k

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John Barton addresses the peer review attendees. A “Peer State Review of TxDOT Maintenance Practices” event begins today in Austin, Texas. The event is being held at the Center for Transportation Research, on organized research unit at The University of Texas at Austin. The event takes place October 5-7th, 2010. Attendees will drive sections of [...]

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In an effort to better distribute transportation research deliverables, the Center for Transportation Research has created two video channels for video deliverables. Both the Youtube and Vimeo channels will host video related to ongoing projects. Over the next month, all video from prior research will be posted to these locations. The video for 0-4061-P2, “Crack [...]

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