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Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car program, shared stories and lessons learned on how self-driving vehicles are reshaping the way we live in, and move through, our communities. |
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Special Edition 2015 Speaker Series Wrap-Up
In this special edition of Volpe's news, we recap our 2015 speaker series Beyond Traffic 2045: Reimagining Transportation with news and video highlights from each event. Delve into insights on automation, navigation, communication, robotics, and smart cities from thought leaders exploring technology, disruptive innovation, and the future of transportation.
 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Director Neil Pedersen recently spoke as part of Volpe’s ongoing Straight from the Source series. Pedersen shared major conclusions from TRB’s new report on how transportation network companies, such as Uber and Lyft, are primed to have a major impact on mobility and transportation accessibility...more
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How can we meld the strengths of humans and technology to create the best transportation future? By making data-driven decisions, says MIT’s Andrew McAfee, who kicked off Volpe’s speaker series Beyond Traffic 2045: Reimagining Transportation...more
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Earth-shattering innovations rarely happen in a vacuum. From Sputnik to Apollo 11, the Model T to self-driving cars, every transportation technology that challenged us to rethink mobility rose out of entire teams of engineers and designers who bucked convention. In his talk, Ken Gabriel, president and CEO of Draper, explores what it takes to be innovative....more
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Anthony Townsend, senior research scientist at New York University’s Rudin Center, examines mobility in an age of programmability and identifies four broad scenarios for America’s transportation future: growth, collapse, constraint, and transformation...more
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FAA Assistant Administrator for NextGen Edward Bolton discusses how programs of today will help modernize our nation’s controlled airspace tomorrow...more
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Harry Lightsey, executive director of the Global Connected Customer Experience for General Motors, identifies foundational changes in the auto industry that are connecting vehicles to each other, to infrastructure, and to us...more
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Within a single lifetime, the distance that humans could fly grew exponentially—from a few hundred feet with the Wright Flyer to nearly 240,000 miles with Apollo 11. Today, we are again on the cusp of many exciting challenges in transformative aeronautics, according to NASA Director of Airspace Operations and Safety John Cavolowsky...more
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For more than a century, Americans have had a special relationship with their cars. But with great leaps in automobile automation that could remove driver control, that relationship is suffering existential growing pains, says Donald Fisher, principal technical advisor at Volpe...more
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What reductions can we realistically, over time, expect? How can we cut through the hype and use the resources we have to best effect? MIT's John Heywood identifies three themes for transportation professionals working on reducing greenhouse gas emissions...more
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