A recent article written by Volpe and FHWA reveals how transportation planners and academics combined proactive relationship building with a novel software application to improve safety on Michigan’s 122,000 miles of road.
Archived News
- February 24, 2016
- February 24, 2016
Senior U.S. DOT leaders recently selected the winner of Volpe’s fourth Innovation Challenge, which encourages multidisciplinary staff teams at Volpe to develop and pitch creative ideas to improve some aspect of the transportation enterprise. The...
- February 23, 2016
The U.S. Department of Transportation is honoring Volpe Human Resources Director Sue Connors along with other employees across DOT as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.
- February 22, 2016
A Volpe team that investigated and promoted life-saving truck side guards in partnership with Boston, New York, Cambridge, and San Francisco won a national 2016 Federal Laboratory Consortium Excellence in Technology Transfer award.
- February 19, 2016
A new report details the concept for a system that would help transportation practitioners navigate the tangle of resources on climate change resiliency.
- February 18, 2016
Historically, managing the health of pipelines was mostly reactive; only physical appearances, like major deformations and stresses, provided hints to potential fractures or warping. However, sensors developed with SBIR funding can now reveal pipeline...
- February 8, 2016
The U.S. foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation contracted with Volpe to help assess the feasibility of an alternate route to points north in Liberia's largest port and other transportation options.
- February 5, 2016
The March 2016 edition of Safety Science highlights the results of Volpe’s independent evaluation of a two-year pilot initiative sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration.
- January 25, 2016
A recent report by Volpe experts identifies emerging technologies and innovative applications that may have significant impacts on our transportation systems within three to five years.
- January 22, 2016
Volpe published 68 reports and conference papers in 2015 spanning a myriad of transportation research topics. View the 2015 research topic areas and download copies of Volpe’s transportation resources.