Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The city of Houston together with the Houston-Galveston Area Council is in the process of conducting a pedestrian and bicycle study for Clear Lake. The focus of the study is to address the safety and mobility needs of pedestrians and bicyclists within the Clear Lake area, with an extra emphasis on providing connections to major [...]

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A new study titled Costs and Benefits of Bicycling Investments indicates that creating a bicycle-friendly infrastructure results in significant long-term benefits to a city. Thomas Gotschi of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland conducted the study. By 2040, [bicycle infrastructure]  investments in the range of $138 to [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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