WBIR-TV featured the keynote address by Charles W. “Wick” Moorman, chairman, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corp., at the 2013 Joint Rail Conference hosted by the Center for Transportation Research at UT. He discussed the conference theme, Next Generation Railroads, Next Generation Railroaders: Innovations and People for the Future. “Knoxville is strategically important for
A panel of transportation experts and economists will meet on Wednesday, April 17, to discuss “Taxes, Green Vehicles, and the Death of Tennessee Transportation.” The panel discussion will be from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center. It is free and open to the public. The discussion will be moderated
Four out of ten drivers feel less safe on the road than they did five years ago. That’s according to a recent highway safety survey of Tennesseans conducted by the Center for Transportation Research and the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation at UT Knoxville. The biggest fear factor: distracted drivers.
Lawson Bordley, a civil engineering PhD student, is the front page story of Iowa State University’s Go! e-zine, “Be a dear and save a deer: How to be a safe driver on rural roads” for his UT Rural Teenage Driver Education Program.
For a week, sixteen rising seventh- and eighth-grade girls will get a taste of what it is like to be an airport operations director, freight planner, highway safety engineer, traffic engineer, bike/pedestrian coordinator, or transportation planner. The girls are participants in the second annual UT Center for Transportation Research’s Transportation Academy, held on the UT
The Transportation Academy, run by the Center for Transportation Research, teaches girls about transportation safety and careers in fun ways using items such as remote control cars and a driving simulator. “I’ve been having a lot of fun. This whole experience has been great,” participant Isabelle Defreese said. “I definitely want to do it again
For a week this summer at UT Knoxville, middle school-aged girls will have the chance to crash remote-controlled cars, get behind the wheel of a driving simulator, examine debris leftover from a wreck and take electric bikes out for a spin. These are some of the activities that will be part of the UT Center
The Center for Transportation Research at UT Knoxville is hosting a transportation workforce development conference on May 11 in Nashville. The conference, also hosted by the Tennessee Transportation Assistance Program and the Southeastern Transportation Center, will bring together officials from high schools, community colleges and technical schools in the southeast who have a vested interest