Center for Transportation Research News

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 and [...]

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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 [...]

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Center for Transportation Research researchers are working with the City of Austin to test some new initiatives to make biking safer in Austin.
[As part of the study, the city has] set up colored bicycle lanes, to examine just how well they protect cyclists.
“Bike boxes allow cyclists to come up to a cue at [...]

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Study indicates that less than 10 percent of auto-bike accidents are caused by the bicyclist.
While there is a public perception that cyclists are usually the cause of accidents between cars and bikes, an analysis of Toronto police collision reports shows otherwise: The most common type of crash in this study involved a motorist entering an [...]

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Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Austin, noted recently that in addition to other summertime bicycle facility developments:
[R]esearch by the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) is going well. The research team is busy watching video of bicycle-motor vehicle interactions at the chosen locations before the devices are put into place. The Bicycle [...]

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Bicycle traffic study of NW corner of Market/Duboce, San Francisco. Roadway narrows to make room for trolley-stop island. There is a bicycle shared-lane marker (sharrow) on the roadway.

Sharrow Bottleneck - Bicycles and Cars.

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