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For more than 50 years, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center has been advancing transportation innovation for the public good. As the National Transportation Systems Center, our mission is to help the transportation community navigate its most challenging problems.

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Learn more about the U.S. DOT Volpe Center's resources in support of U.S. DOT's goal of organizational excellence.
Enabling Organizational Excellence
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Learn how the U.S. DOT Volpe Center helps FAA’s Project Management Office efficiently manage program requirements.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center Supported FAA Requirements Management Efforts
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Read our new series to learn best practices, tips, and ways to help you keep your software development projects on track.
Introducing “Ask the Software PM Experts”
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Learn how to create realistic schedules and better estimates for transportation-related software in the government space.
How to Produce Better Cost Estimates for Medium to Large-Scale Software Development Projects
Read on to learn about our recent work and tools that can support grant programs, reduce infrastructure vulnerability, estimate emissions benefits of transportation projects, share real-time work zone data, and make effective use of complex data.
A Curated Collection of the U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Recent Work and Available Tools to Support State Infrastructure Investments
Read on to learn about the CMAQ Emissions Calculator Toolkit that helps states estimate emissions benefits, recently updated to focus on electric vehicles and electrification projects.
New Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Tools for Estimating Emissions Benefits of Highway and Intermodal Projects
Learn more about the Resilience and Disaster Recovery (RDR) Tool Suite, which enables transportation planners to calculate the ROI for transportation infrastructure resilience projects across uncertain hazard scenarios.
Developing a Tool Suite to Address Resilience Return on Investment in Transportation Infrastructure
Read about the Work Zone Data Exchange, which provides the national standard for work zone data and other critical highway safety information to those who need it.
Increasing Access to Work Zone Information to Improve Highway Safety for All
Learn more about U.S. DOT Volpe Center data science experts who are using data science innovations for transportation planning, operations, safety analysis, and to improve business processes.
Innovative Uses of Data Science to Solve Transportation Problems

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Learn more about the U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s resources in support U.S. DOT’s goal of organizational excellence.
Enabling Organizational Excellence
Read more about the software development capability within our Research and Innovative Technology organization.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Software Development Capability Rated at CMMI Maturity Level 3
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Learn how the U.S. DOT Volpe Center helps FAA’s Project Management Office efficiently manage program requirements.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center Supported FAA Requirements Management Efforts
A woman standing over a desk and pointing to a computer screen
Read our new series to learn best practices, tips, and ways to help you keep your software development projects on track.
Introducing “Ask the Software PM Experts”
Three people looking at a computer together
Learn how to create realistic schedules and better estimates for transportation-related software in the government space.
How to Produce Better Cost Estimates for Medium to Large-Scale Software Development Projects
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Learn more about the U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s role in supporting the NRSS and the Safe System Approach.
Reducing Fatalities and Severe Injuries with the National Roadway Safety Strategy
Our Annual Project Accomplishments report represents some of our best work of 2022 and underscores our sustained support to U.S. DOT and others. View highlights of our work from the past year.
Our Annual Project Accomplishments report represents some of our best work of 2022 and underscores our sustained support to U.S. DOT and others. View highlights of our work from the past year.
Annual Accomplishments: January 2023
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The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s staff will be presenting at a variety of sessions at the 102nd annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting, January 8-12, 2023 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
U.S. DOT Volpe Center Staff Presenting at 2023 TRB Annual Meeting
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center is pleased to announce that Jonathan Walker, PE, PhD has joined us as director of our Center for Communications, Navigation, Surveillance Systems, and Engineering.
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center Welcomes New Technical Center Director: Jonathan Walker
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg discusses the future of transportation at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg discusses the future of transportation at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg Visits the U.S. DOT Volpe Center
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