Announcing Beyond Traffic 2045: Reimagining Transportation 

Rail Innovations Throttle Up at Volpe From energy efficiency to fuel tank standards, Volpe’s range of rail expertise was on display at the 2015 Joint Rail Conference. Read on for brief summaries of seven Volpe papers presented during the conference, which examined A Century of Innovation: Heavy Haul to High-Speed Rail...more

Planning Across Borders: Transportation Strategies for Megaregions A report by FHWA and Volpe highlights noteworthy practices from metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) working with emerging megaregions...more

New Book Offers Tools for Addressing Worker Fatigue and Transportation Safety Edited by Volpe’s Dr. Stephen Popkin, a new book by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society provides policy makers, practitioners, and researchers with real-world, practical guidance for addressing worker fatigue and transportation safety...more

Looking Forward to Beyond Traffic, Recapping Transportation and the Economy Volpe’s last speaker series—Transportation and the Economy: Leading Globally, Succeeding Locally—highlighted the forces driving transportation innovation in modern economies. Read the series’ final report to find out how multimodal transportation drives economic growth...more

Volpe Staff at Local and National Events

Volpe staff were featured at key speaking engagements in August and September, including the following:

• Dr. Aaron Hastings, Christopher Roof, and Eric Boeker presented papers on environmental modeling support tools, a unique acoustic propagation verification and validation data set, and the auralization of moving sources at INTER-NOISE 2015, the 44th Inter-Noise Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, held August 9-12 in San Francisco, California.   
  
  
• Dr. Scott Gabree and Bianka Mejia participated in a panel discussion at the 2015 Right-of-Way Fatality and Trespass Prevention Workshop, held August 4-6 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Gabree discussed potential countermeasures to mitigate suicides on railroad rights-of-way. Mejia discussed the impact of media on suicide rates and what the rail industry can do to encourage responsible reporting.
  
  
• Michael Scarpino participated in the 2015 National Clean Cities Coordinator Training Workshop, held September 1-3 at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. Scarpino discussed fuel tank cylinder safety standards for natural gas vehicles and industry best practices, as they relate to compressed natural gas transit buses.

  Aviation - Human Factors

• NextGen Flight Deck Data Comm: Auxiliary Synthetic Speech Phase II

  Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Dynamic Mobility Application Policy Analysis: Policy and Institutional Issues for Response, Emergency Staging and Communications, Uniform Management, and Evacuation (R.E.S.C.U.M.E)
• Dynamic Mobility Application Policy Analysis: Policy and Institutional Issues for Integrated Dynamic Transit Operations (IDTO)
• Dynamic Mobility Application Policy Analysis: Policy and Institutional Issues for Multi-Modal Intelligent Traffic Signal System (MMITSS)
• Review of State DOT Approaches to Distribute Federal Metropolitan Planning (PL) Funds to MPOs

  Railroad Safety

• An Investigation of Passing Stop Signals at a Passenger Railroad

  Transportation Planning

• Establishing and Integrating Performance Measures: A TPCB Peer Exchange
• Gateway Arch Circulator Conceptual Feasibility Study: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Integration Plan for the Mid-Region Council of Governments: Central New Mexico Climate Change Scenario Planning Project
• Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge: Transit Planning Study
• National Alternative Transportation Evaluation (NATE): Overview of Data and Trends for Alternative Transportation in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Transportation and the Economy: A Volpe Thought Leadership Series

  Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technology

• Big Data’s Implications for Transportation Operations: An Exploration