Straight from the Source
About Straight from the Source
This engaging speaker series enables a stimulating information exchange with today's thought leaders in transportation on emerging and future transportation issues.
Straight from the Source events are held at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and are also accessible via webinar.
Next in the Series
Thursday, June 27, 2013
12:00 noon EST
Join us in person or via webinar
Emil Frankel
Visiting Scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center
New Paradigms for Federal Transportation Programs during a Time of Scarce Resources
Recent Exchanges
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Considering Transportation as a Complex Sociotechnical System
with Dr. Joseph M. Sussman
JR East Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Using Automated Data Collection Systems to Improve Public Transport Performance: Applications at Transport for London
with Dr. Nigel H.M. Wilson
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Shock and Consequences: The Case for Bolstering Infrastructure Resilience
with Dr. Stephen Flynn
Professor and co-director, George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, Northeastern University
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Every Day Counts: An Innovation Initiative
with Victor M. Mendez
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Innovating through Technology at the Seaway: Even Old Infrastructure Dogs Can Learn New Tricks
with Craig H. Middlebrook
Acting Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, U.S. Department of Transportation
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Risk-Based Security and Enhanced Behavior Detection/Analysis
An emerging concept which will improve security and the travel experience
with George N. Naccara
Federal Security Director at Logan International Airport Transportation Security Administration U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Innovating with Excess Capacity to Achieve Speed and Scale
with Robin Chase
Chase is founder and CEO of Buzzcar and is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar and GoLoco.
Febuary 17, 2012
Innovations for a better tomorrow: How states and U.S. DOT collaborate to accelerate and embrace change
with Kirk T. Steudle, P.E.
Director of the Michigan Department of Transportation and 2011-2012 President of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
February 16, 2012
Trade in tasks vs trade in products: The demise of the "made in label" – policy and security implications
with Stephen M. Carmel
Senior Vice President Maersk Line, Limited
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Congestion in Rapidly Growing Cities: Lessons from Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai
with Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy
Harvard University
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Reducing road fatalities by focusing on human centered systems: Augmented reality allows us to see and feel the road
with Max Donath
Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute
University of Minnesota
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
"Integration of Air and High Speed Rail: Are We Ready to Do It?"
In the United States, we have shown that high speed rail can successfully compete with air: but have we shown that they can work together to make a better system?"
with Matthew A. Coogan
Director of the New England Transportation Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to intermodal and interdisciplinary issues. Over the past decade, Mr. Coogan has focused on the deployment of integrated multimodal mobility strategies, and the use of new information technologies in the implementation of those procedures.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Looking Beyond Safety Management Systems to Risk IQ
What threats arise when we think our operations are safe? How to REPAIR the internal conspiracy of inaction
with David Soucie
Owner of Sans Soucie Enterprises, LLC and Author of Why Planes Crash – An Accident Investigator Fights for Safe Skies
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Transportation Technology and Policy:
a 2011 Perspective
with Peter H. Appel
Administrator Research and Innovative Technology Administration U.S. Department of Transportation
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Transforming Transportation through Technology
Imagine! Think about how wireless connectivity can change safety, mobility and the environment
with Shelley Row
Director of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Joint Program Office
U.S. Department of Transportation
Research and Innovative Technology Administration
Friday, July 15, 2011
Forever Open Road: Redefining Highway Transport for the 21st
Century An initiative of the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
with Joris Al
General Director of the Centre for Transport and Navigation The Netherlands
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
What Services Should You Operate in a Bus Corridor? And What Can We Achieve in Time Savings, Reliability and Comfort if Properly Controlled?
with Juan Carlos Munoz Abogabir
Department of Transport Engineering & Logistics
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Previous exchanges are available at our Straight from the Source archive
