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 [...]
Austin part of bike and car sharing experiment (from KVUE News, Austin Texas)
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Bicycles · News · Transportation Policy · Transportation Research · Transportation Safety · Video
New Bike Safety Campaign Begins in Austin Texas (from Fox 7 News online)
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Bicycles · News · Transportation Research · Transportation Safety · Video
CTR Publishes “Guide to the Economic Value of Texas Ports”
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments
This guidebook illustrates the economic impact of Texas ports. It updates a similar study done a decade earlier, and so assisted TxDOT with incorporating the most recent marine port impacts into their state transportation planning. Almost all the larger Texas ports had undertaken economic impact studies and were understandably concerned about any new study providing [...]
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