Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The January 2013 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library’s website. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 28 recent publications that the library has received from the Transportation Research Board’s research programs including the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), the National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP), the National [...]

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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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The September 2012 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest provides abstracts and full-text links for 32 recent publications from the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The selected publications cover topics concerning transportation planning, human resource management, project administration, and decision-making. The reports mentioned in this Digest are available in [...]

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Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin will be presenting papers at the Transportation Research Board meeting January 2012. See the PDF for specifics on papers, presenters, dates, and time of presentation. Schedule (PDF): http://www.utexas.edu/research/ctr/pdf_reports/ut_trb_schedule_2012.pdf

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(image from http://www.wkrn.com/story/15365775/driver-t-boned-after-running-red-flashing-light) Intersections with flashing lights have three times more accidents than those with only stop signs and intersections with highway frontage roads are high risk, a University of Texas study released Monday said. The study, led by Cockrell School of Engineering Professor Chandra Bhat and his graduate students, Marisol Castro and Rajesh Paleti, [...]

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TRB will be conducting a web seminar or “webinar” on August 11, 2011, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT that will enable individuals to become familiar with entering and managing project records in the Research in Progress (RiP) Database. Registration is free for all attendees. Register now at http://trb.org/ElectronicSessions/Blurbs/TRB_Webinar_Entering_and_Managing_Project_Records_165692.aspx The Transportation Research Board’s RiP [...]

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On June 22, I attended an introductory webinar sponsored by TRB and several state DOTs on knowledge management practices. Speakers provided information on how knowledge management practices are being used in federal and state transportation organizations today and discussed how these practices help preserve instituitonal knowledge. We also shared several resources including these resources…… Virginia [...]

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The April 2011 issue of the Research Digest highlights recent NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) publications from the Transportation Research Board (TRB). These publications are available at the CTR Library and online. Each report summarized in the digest is available for free download; links to the full-text PDFs are provided in the Digest. This [...]

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