Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

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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A study released Tuesday night to the City of Austin’s Urban Transportation Commission suggests that experimental traffic devices installed on a few Austin streets last year appear to be keeping cyclists safer. The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas worked with city employees in Austin’s Transportation Department to study and collect video [...]

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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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On the 4th of July in 2008, a California doctor deliberately swerved and braked in front of two cyclists, causing one of the cyclists to crash headfirst through the back window of the car. The other cyclist was thrown across the road. The doctor is now facing 10 years in prison for using his car [...]

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The City of Austin is planning its first bicycle boulevard, which is a street set up to discourage vehicular traffic by establishing low speeds and decreasing non-resident car volume. By May 2010, Nueces Street will be augmented with traffic-slowing devices such as periodic roundabouts, speed humps, and possibly bollards, which are short posts positioned to [...]

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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. It is my pleasure to write [...]

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The City of Austin is testing four bicycle safety improvements with research involvement of the Center for Transportation Research. KVUE News in Austin covers “sharrows” in a news segment today; the video is posted online. http://www.kvue.com/news/Austin-part-of-bike-and-car-sharing-experiment-68806662.html Anyone driving, walking or cycling down Guadalupe between MLK and 4th street Monday may have seen them being installed [...]

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In a joint venture with the City of Austin, The Center for Transportation Research will be conducting research to improve the safety of cyclists utilizing some experimental roadway features, including shared lane markings, painted bicycle lanes, signs and bicycle boxes. To cater to Austin’s large population of bicyclists, UT teamed up with the city to [...]

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