Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

The February issue of the Research Digest features recent TxDOT research publications…

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The October 2012 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 32 recent publications (August-October) from the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Cooperative Research Program. The research projects represented here are sponsored through the TxDOT Research and Technology Implementation Office (RTI) and cover a wide range of [...]

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UT Austin’s AT&T conference today as part of the Texas Tribune Festival Trade & Transportation: One-on-One with Phil Wilson. Summary Notes from “One-on-One with Phil Wilson” Speakers Phil Wilson, TxDOT Director and Tribune reporter Aman Batheja I had a great first year. My first task was to tour the 25 districts. You get a sense [...]

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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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The latest edition of the Research Digest is now available for download. This month’s digest contains abstracts for 24 recent publications from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Research Program. All of the reports mentioned in this Digest are available both at the CTR Library and online. Please contact the Library if print copies are [...]

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An international road advocacy group recognized the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for the agency’s innovative four-year maintenance management plan that establishes best practices methodology to improve pavement conditions across the state. TxDOT received the International Road Federation’s 2011 Global Road Achievement Award in the category of maintenance management. The GRAA is an international competition [...]

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2011 Urban mobility study covered by local news network in Austin: Austin’s growth is showing up in the morning and afternoon commutes. According to the 2011 Urban Mobility report produced by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M , in 1982 Austinites spent an average nine hours a year in traffic. In 2010, that figure [...]

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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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