Volpe Center Realigns into Centers of Innovation; Expands Horizons
The Volpe Center plays a unique role in looking across the transportation enterprise and anticipating future transportation issues and challenges to better prepare and inform transportation decision makers. To better focus its vast technological and process innovation competencies on the achievement of U.S. transportation goals and national priorities, the Volpe Center has been restructured into eight Centers of Innovation (COIs).
The COI structure increases the opportunity for research and technology synergy both within and outside the U.S. DOT and enhances the effectiveness of the Volpe Center's cross modal and multimodal capabilities. The COIs clarify, reinforce, and strengthen the Center's role in applying its technical capabilities to U.S. DOT strategic goals and national transportation priorities.
Centers of Innovation
- Multimodal Systems Research and Analysis
- Safety Management Systems
- Environmental and Energy Systems
- Freight Logistics and Transportation Systems
- Physical Infrastructure Systems
- Communication, Navigation, Surveillance (CNS) and Traffic Management Systems
- Human Factors Research and System Applications
- Advanced Vehicle and Information Network Systems
The new structure institutionalizes and strengthens the Center's ability to anticipate future transportation challenges to expand U.S. DOT's horizon, and show how innovation can arise from creative and collaborative use of internal and external assets.
Funded through work agreements with multiple U.S. DOT and non-DOT agencies, the Volpe Center supports all of U.S. DOT's modal administrations and offices, other federal agencies, state and local governments and organizations, foreign governments and entities, and the private sector. An innovative, fee-for service organization, the Volpe Center is internationally recognized as a center of transportation and logistics expertise.
