Volpe's New Innovation Challenge Elicits Unique Solutions to Emerging Transportation Issues Volpe recently completed its first-ever Innovation Challenge, a competition for staff to receive funding to develop unique solutions to emerging transportation issues. Recognizing that today's challenges are complex, the Innovation Challenge encouraged staff to work together in multidisciplinary teams, leveraging Volpe's unique breadth and depth in expertise...more

Rail Trespass Prevention Research Will Save Lives More than 500 people die each year while trespassing on rail lines. In West Palm Beach, Florida, one particularly dangerous stretch of rail is currently the subject of a Federal Railroad Administration and local community-based project being led by Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center...more

Meet Volpe at the Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to “Meet Volpe” at the upcoming Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting. Volpe staff are part of an information-packed program that attracts over 10,000 transportation professionals from around the world. Volpe experts will be leading and presenting at a number of sessions ranging from Moving Forward with Performance-Based Planning:  MPOs Respond to the MAP-21 Challenge to Decision Making for Transportation Risk Analysis for Policy and Technology. To see a list of Volpe contributions at TRB 2013, visit Volpe at TRB 2013.

Visit our booth, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s annual showcase (booth 3001-3013) located in the exhibit hall at the Marriot Wardman Park.  

U.S. DOT SBIR Program Calls for Innovative Research Proposals The U.S. DOT's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program seeks innovative research proposals from small businesses to address specific research challenges facing the modal administrations...more

Advancing Aircraft Wake Turbulence Research to Achieve Aviation Capacity and Safety Objectives Steven Lang, director of Volpe’s Center for Air Traffic Systems and Operations, spoke about wake turbulence research during a recent Transportation Trajectories conversation...more

New Tools Investigated in Hazard Analysis Research for Vehicular Systems There was a time when travel safety could be improved by training drivers and designing crash survival into vehicles. That is no longer the case, said Dr. Qi Van Eikema Hommes, senior electronics engineer in Volpe's Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies...more

Volpe Library: Featured Reports 

• Alternative Jet Fuel Scenario Analysis Report
  
  
• Analysis of Modeling Cumulative Noise from Simultaneous Flights Volume 1: Analysis at Four National Parks 
  
  
• Analysis of Modeling Cumulative Noise from Simultaneous Flights Volume 2: Supplemental Analysis 
  
  
• MOVES2010a Regional Level Sensitivity Analysis 
  
  
• FHWA Traffic Noise Model (TNM) Pavement Effects Implementation Study: Progress  Report 1 
  
  
• Transforming Transportation through Connectivity: ITS Strategic Research Plan, 2010-2014 Progress Update, 2012