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Clickety-Clack: A Study on Joint Bar Integrity

  

To help prevent the conditions that can lead to derailments, Volpe’s David Jeong worked with Ali Tajaddini from the Federal Railroad Administration and Radim Bruzek of ENSCO Inc. to study the structural integrity of joint bars that hold rail sections together.

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Coming Soon: A Thought Leadership Speaker Series, Transportation and the Economy

This series will consider emerging and future issues crucial to the U.S. transportation system's ability to keep pace with the rising demand to move people and goods and remain competitive in today's global economy.

Nationally recognized thought leaders and Volpe experts will deliver talks at the Volpe facility in Cambridge, MA, that will be available via webinar.  

Kick-Off Event

Friday, October 3
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET 
Dr. Yossi Sheffi
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems and director of MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics

More detailed information will be released in the coming weeks on our Events page. 

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U.S. DOT Accepting Proposals for SBIR Solicitation

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Small Business Innovation Research program is now accepting proposals. The solicitation opened on July 14 and will close on September 15, 2014...more

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Planning for Climate Change in Cape Cod and New Mexico

Volpe environmental planners supported the Federal Highway Administration and numerous other agencies to create models of collaboration in Cape Cod and Central New Mexico that address climate change through an integrated scenario planning process in transportation and land use plans...more
Ruth Hunter

The Woman with the Groundbreaking Mind

Volpe’s Ruth Hunter speaks to BU Today about her experience as a female engineering student in the 1960s...more
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Insights into Nation’s Freight System Could Shape New Surface Transportation Legislation

The National Freight Advisory Committee is working to make the nation’s freight network safer and more efficient...more

Volpe Staff at National and Local Events

Volpe staff were featured at a number of key speaking engagements in June and July, including the following:

  • June 24: Michael Dinning gave a presentation titled “Strategies for Maritime Cyber Security – Leveraging the Other Modes” at the Innovative Technologies for a Resilient Marine Transportation System conference in Washington, D.C. 

  • July 15-17: Jane Lappin, Lydia Rainville, Kevin Gay, Elizabeth Machek, and Valarie Kniss co-chaired the "Automated Vehicles Symposium 2014" in San Francisco, CA. Volpe staff and other transportation professionals discussed the impact of road vehicle automation.   

  • July 22: Haley Peckett and William Lyons were panelists at the Transportation Research Board’s Tools of the Trade for Small and Medium Sized Communities Conference in Burlington, VT. Peckett presented “The Role of Rural Planning Organizations in Planning Beyond Boundaries” as part of the Dealing with Multi-jurisdictional Travel panel. Lyons facilitated and presented on the Performance Measures for Planning: Rules and Tools panel.
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