Past Events
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Panel 3: Project Acceleration for the Public Good
Gregory Byres, Deputy Director/State Engineer, Arizona Department of Transportation
Stephen Roe Lewis, Governor, Gila River Indian Community
Kurt Kionka, I-70 Floyd Hill Project Director, Colorado Department of Transportation
Panel 2: Best Practices to Get Big Infrastructure Projects off the Ground
Stephen Sigmund, Chief of Public Outreach, Gateway Development Commission
Jessica Mefford-Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Valley Metro
U.S. DOT Volpe Center Student Employment Info Session
Please join us to learn about exciting internship and recent graduate opportunities at the Volpe Center/U.S. Department of Transportation!
Dr. Stephen Flynn on The Imperative and Opportunity to Invest in Resilient Infrastructure
Dr. Stephen Flynn presented options for overcoming barriers to advancing the widespread adoption of resilient design and engineering best practices. Dr. Flynn is the founding director of the Global Resilience Institute and a professor of political science and of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
2018 Volpe Center Cybersecurity Conference & Expo
U.S. DOT's Volpe Center is hosting its annual Cybersecurity Conference & Expo. This annual event features guest speakers from government agencies and private industry to discuss current cyber threats and best practices to combat them.
Volpe Talks: Transportation Ideas Worth Sharing
As part of the Cambridge Science Festival, come and hear a series of short, live talks direct from Volpe team members working on emerging transportation issues such as maritime security, nonmotorized transportation, and advancing the flow of aviation traffic. The talks will conclude with a tour of the Volpe train, airplane, and car simulators.
2017 Volpe Center Cybersecurity Conference & Expo
U.S. DOT's Volpe Center is hosting its annual Cybersecurity Conference & Expo. This annual event features guest speakers from government agencies and private industry to discuss current cyber threats and best practices to combat them.
Risk Modeling for Small UAS in Controlled Airspace Around Airports
Tom Sheridan, PhD, and Jason Lu discussed how the U.S. DOT Volpe Center is working with FAA to develop a collision risk model for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in key terminal airspace where business and commercial users also enter the airspace. This work will inform requirements for an automated authorization and notification tool for small UAV operations.
U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Freight/Fuel Transportation Optimization Tool
Dr. Kristin Lewis presented "U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Freight/Fuel Transportation Optimization Tool: Exploring Future Energy Scenarios." The Volpe Center has developed flowable, multimodal transportation optimization tool used to evaluate the costs, transportation requirements, and impacts of future freight scenarios, particularly those focused on the energy sector. Current analyses are evaluating potential alternative and fossil fuel transport scenarios. Dr. Lewis discussed what the tool does and how we’re using it.
Our Shared Transportation Future
The next 15 years will look different than the last 15 years. What will we do with that knowledge? In his talk at Volpe, General Darren McDew discussed challenges and opportunities that are coming over the next decade-and-a-half. Will we build on the solid foundation of our relationships and get after the challenges of tomorrow today? Will we find ways to challenge our thinking and norms and identify the people, technology, and processes that will deliver success?