Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

CTR congratulates Dr. Richard Klingner, Professor in Civil Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin, for being selected to receive the 2010 Wilbur C. Schoeller Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Texas. Dr. Klingner was recognized for his teaching, research, and leadership of technical committees within ACI, TMS, and ASTM. Dr. [...]

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Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) has awarded the 2009 Heart of Texas Chapter Innovative Transportation Solution Award and a 2010 WTS International Award to a bicycle safety study conducted by the Center for Transportation Research at UT Austin in partnership with the City of Austin. The project, the Shared Lane Bicycle Project, was awarded the [...]

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Seven faculty members, including UT Austin’s transportation faculty member Chandra Bhat, have been named to the prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers at The University of Texas at Austin, Steven W. Leslie, executive vice president and provost, has announced. Leslie said the faculty members were named to the academy based on recommendations from an ad hoc [...]

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Dr. Kara Kockelman has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) to receive one of the 2010 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes. The award citation will read: “For her contributions in the areas of data acquisition and analysis for highway safety, urban systems forecasting, vehicle design, road pricing, spatial statistics [...]

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The National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board named a paper submitted by three University of Texas at Austin engineers and one University of Texas at San Antonio engineer, as the winner of the D. Grant Mickle Award. The award is given annually for the best paper in the area of operation, safety and maintenance. The [...]

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C. Michael Walton, Professor in Transportation Engineering, was recently awarded the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Road Hand Award. This award is an honored TxDOT tradition to acknowledge those who have made improvements to Texas transportation a labor of love. In the early days of the 20th century, anyone who helped build roads was called [...]

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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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