Center for Transportation Research News

Editor Note: As an update to the passage of the Master Bike Plan, Annick Beaudet, the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of Austin in Department of Public Works, has provided this update on the implementation of the plan.

Colored bike lane on Dean Keaton East of IH 35.

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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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Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad. But if the early results from the Mobile Millennium project are any indication, our ability to navigate through that traffic is about to get a lot better.
The idea behind Mobile Millennium is simple. Cell phone users download free software that automatically and anonymously contributes [...]

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According to a new study, “Green Drivers or Free Riders? An Analysis of Tax Rebates for Hybrid Vehicles,” from the University of British Columbia (UBC), the U.S. government rebates for hybrids are not reducing greenhouse gases as much as hoped.
Amarish Chandra, a professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and co-author of the study [...]

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According to the 2009 Urban Mobility Report, recently published by The Texas Transportation Institute:
Travelers spent one hour less stuck in traffic in 2007 than they did the year before and wasted one gallon less gasoline than the year before. The differences are small, but they represent a rare break in near-constant growth in traffic over [...]

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Read more about cyling perceptions in an article orginally posted to the Cockrell School of Engineering Website. Archived here.

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Read a PDF posted by the Texas Department of Transportation on the Value of Transportation Research. (PDF, 800 K)

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UT’s Center for Transportation Research hosted its annual symposium on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The theme of this year’s symposium was “Back to Basics.” CTR researchers addressed the future pavement and bridge needs in 2030, TxDOT revenue and expenditure trends, vehicle operating costs, stormwater quality improvements, and concrete durability. See photos from the event.

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