Volpe and the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment held their annual research workshop at the Netherlands Embassy on transportation infrastructure resilience and adaptation. Since 1998, the research organizations have exchanged transportation research information and experience under a mutually beneficial agreement.
Join Vinn White at Volpe on Tuesday, March 18, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Vinn White manages the U.S. Department of Transportation's interagency initiatives, including coordinating activities related to Hurricane Sandy rebuilding in the Northeast—a $13 billion effort to repair and restore the region's infrastructure.
White supports U.S. DOT's work to implement Congressional provisions from last year's transportation reauthorization bill across the Department.
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Dr. Melissa Beck, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University, recently spent her sabbatical working at Volpe with human factors experts...more
SWIM is an enabling component of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, commonly known as NextGen, that gets the right information to the right systems at the right time...more
In “Setting the Bar for Excellence,” an article in the January/February 2014 issue of FHWA's Public Roads magazine, Volpe community planner Rachel Strauss discusses innovative approaches that are used to incorporate environmental stewardship into transportation projects...more