Transportation planning in the United States is facing a compelling need to add a significant focus to meet the growing demands of "megaregions."

For over 20 years, Lee has been involved with many of Volpe's acoustics measurement projects, collecting, analyzing, and modeling acoustic data for over 40 National Parks to assess noise impacts from flights overhead.

Officials from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, and Volpe traveled to Pueblo, Colorado, to visit Transportation Technology Center, Inc., the test track used by the FRA.

Automated or autonomous? That is the question, said Gary Ritter, director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies at Volpe. Ritter recently spoke to the transportation community during Transportation Trajectories, a lecture series...

You are cordially invited to join us in person or via webinar for our next Transportation Trajectories conversation, "The Challenge of Transportation Planning for Megaregions" with Bill Lyons, Principal Technical Advisor for Transportation Planning at...

To reduce the probability of airport accidents, Volpe recently completed the technical performance on-site testing of a new low-cost ground surveillance system at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. 

A recent analysis has shown that the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS) program has made significant improvements in both safety and safety culture since...

For a number of years after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in 2002, the agency generally screened all passengers in the same way, following a model of risk-based security that screened general passengers to the same...

The Volpe Center established the first Department of Transportation (DOT) Green Team in 2006, leading the charge to advance a culture of conservation, recycling, and reuse. Green Week, executed by the group each year, has helped boost Volpe'...

Recently, a team at Volpe partnered with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to develop and launch the SaferBus app—the first mobile application developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)—to enable users to view the safety...