Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

Lisa Loftus-Otway, president of the Heart of Texas Chapter of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), was selected to be one of fourteen transportation industry professionals to participate in the 2013 WTS international Leadership Program. The program will be held February 3-7, 2013, at Rutgers State University. The National Transit Institute (NTI), located at Rutgers, provides logistical [...]

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Dr. Chandra Bhat, the Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, assumed the role of director of the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) on September 1, 2012. For more information on Dr. Bhat and CTR, see the article on the Cockrell School website. Read [...]

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Ozzie Bayrak has been selected to receive the 2011 George D. Nasser Award from the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. This award recognizes the paper published in the PCI Journal that is most “worthy of special commendation for its merit on the design, research, production, or construction of precast/prestressed concrete structures.” He co-authored the winning paper with [...]

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The July 2011 issue of the Research Digest highlights recent publications from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that are available at the CTR Library and online. This digest includes reports from research conducted by the Center for Transportation Research for TxDOT. Each report summarized in the digest is available for free download and links [...]

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The Center for Transportation Research has released a report spanning FY 2009- FY 2010. http://www.utexas.edu/research/ctr/pdf_reports/annual_report_2009_10.pdf

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The November issue of the Research Digest highlights recently published TxDOT reports that are available at the CTR Library and online. The Digest PDF is now available for download [...]

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As legislators study the interim charges and prepare to issue reports on these charges, they hear from members of the public, interest groups, and research from entities that specialize in a certain area of public policy or government…. While it is important that legislators hear from interested parties about issues that directly affect them, it [...]

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View collections and sets of transportation-research images taken for the Center for Transportation Research, UT Austin. Many historical images, including a special collection of historical laboratory images from the Ferguson Structural Engineering Lab. FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctr_utaustin/

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