The May 2019 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library’s website. This month’s digest provides abstracts and full-text links for 14 recent publications from the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). The selected new arrivals represent syntheses …
The April 2019 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library’s website. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 11 recent publications from the research program sponsored by TxDOT’s Research and Technology Implementation Division (RTI). The research projects represented here cover a wide range of topics. This issue includes reports …
The March 2019 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library. This digest from CTR Library provides abstracts for 20 publications recently received from other states’ department of transportation research programs. The research projects represented here are from various states including Alabama, California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, …
At TRB this year, CTR grad student Pragun Vinayak received the Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award in transportation science and technology from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). This award recognizes Pragun’s outstanding MS thesis, “Accounting for Multi-Dimensional Dependencies Among Decision-makers within a Generalized Model Framework: An Application to Understanding Shared Mobility Service Usage Levels.” …
Name: Katherine Kortum Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA Currently Residing: Washington, DC Current job: Senior Program Officer, Transportation Research Board Graduated from UT: PhD in 2012 Hobbies outside of work: I read quite a bit, and one of the perks of my place in DC is that I am two blocks from a library. And like a …
Name: William Alexander Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama Current position: Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Stephen Boyles Hobbies: Photography, golf, scuba Notable Honor: Named D-STOP’s 2018 Outstanding Student of the Year Where were you before you came to pursue your graduate degree at UT? Prior to coming to UT, I earned BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from …
The February 2019 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library’s website. This month’s digest provides abstracts for 19 recent publications from the research program sponsored by TxDOT’s Research and Technology Implementation Division (RTI). The research projects represented here cover a wide range of topics. This issue includes reports …
UT is hosting a presentation by Prof. Benjamin Heydecker of University College London (UCL) on “Control of Autonomous Vehicles” on Thursday, February 21, 2019, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, in the ECJ 10th floor conference room (ECJ 10.206/10.302). ABSTRACT: Introduction of connected autonomous vehicles (cAVs) into the fleet provides an opportunity to improve the efficiency …