University of Texas at Arlington

UT Arlington study shows high-speed rail trip to Houston could take less than two hours

Wed, Nov 13, 2013 17:39 CET

Lines would be mostly within existing TxDOT right of wayA UT Arlington feasibility study of high-speed rail in Texas shows that trips between most city pairs that use existing Texas Department of Transportation right-of-way can be made in less than two hours, making it competitive with air travel and superior to highway driving. Steve Mattingly, a UT Arlington civil engineer who conducted the case study, evaluated routes between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio, San Antonio and Houston, and Houston and Waco. He also investigated a high-speed rail stop in

UT Arlington civil engineers using recycled plastic pins to shore up failing highway slopes

Thu, Aug 29, 2013 23:48 CET

Landfill material used to mend soilA UT Arlington civil engineering researcher has won a $1 million state transportation department grant to install pins made from reclaimed and recycled plastic along some of the region’s busiest highways to shore up clay soils that support the roads. Sahadat Hossain, an associate professor of civil engineering , demonstrated the technique as a cost effective and efficient solution to failing soil slopes as part of the project during the last few years. His team first installed the pins along U.S. 287 in Midlothian. The study

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UT Arlington study shows high-speed rail trip to Houston could take less than two hours

UT Arlington civil engineers using recycled plastic pins to shore up failing highway slopes

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