Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

On Tuesday, December 11, there will be a free screening of “Revenge of the Electric Car” at 4:30pm in the Blanton Museum of Art’s Smith Auditorium, followed by a panel discussion on the next generation of electric vehicles (EVs). “Electric cars are an exciting prospect for our environment, but there are a lot of unanswered [...]

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Dr. C. Michael Walton, Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, is the 2013 recipient of the Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation. The award will be presented during the Chairman’s Luncheon on January 16, 2013, at the TRB 92nd Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Walton [...]

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Free screening of “Revenge of the Electric Car” on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 4:30pm at the Blanton Museum of Art’s Smith Auditorium, followed by a panel discussion on the NEXT GENERATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVs). Learn the latest about EVs from industry reps and faculty experts! Reception after panel. Sponsored by UT/TAMU’s Electric Vehicle Transportation [...]

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Ferguson Lab held its annual barbecue and fall celebration of transportation research conducted by its research students and faculty. For pictures, visit the CTR Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctr_utaustin/sets/72157631612673812/

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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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Ten student interns participating in the Undergraduate Summer Internship in Transportation (USIT) at UT Austin presented topics in transportation research, sharing information about work in progress at The University of Texas at Austin. Students, research faculty, and staff at the Cockrell School of Engineering attended the presentation. Topics presented included analysis of the downtown Austin [...]

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Dr. Stephen Boyles, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, presented “Transportation Networks and Optimization” on July 25, 2012, at the Cockrell School of Engineering as part of a series of presentations by and for students engaged in transportation research. This summer at the [...]

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A paper co-authored by Dr. Zhanmin Zhang, a civil engineering associate professor and Fellow of the Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering of at The University of Texas at Austin, and two of his transportation graduate students, Epigmenio Gonzalez and Wenxing Liu, were selected to receive the Best Paper Award by the 8th [...]

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