Past Events
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A Conversation with Kyle Vogt and Under Secretary Derek Kan
Kyle Vogt, Founder and CEO, Cruise Automation, Inc., and Derek Kan, Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, spoke as part of Volpe's 2018 speaker series, Transportation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics.
The New Mobility Operating System with Harvard’s Stephen Goldsmith
Stephen Goldsmith, the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, spoke on September 25, 2018, as part of Volpe's Transportation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics speaker series.
Forecasting Freight Transportation Rates: A moving target
Chris Caplice, PhD, Executive Director at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics spoke as part of Volpe's Transportation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics speaker series on August 13, 2018, at 12 p.m. ET.
Derek Kan, U.S. DOT Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, Kicked Off 2018 Speaker Series
Derek Kan, U.S. DOT Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, kicked off Volpe's 2018 speaker series, Transportation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics.
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.
The Emergent eVTOL Market
Carl C. Dietrich, PhD, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Terrafugia, discussed electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of the U.S. DOT Volpe Center's speaker series The Ongoing Transformation of the Global Transportation System.
Rethinking the Human-Autonomy Team Architecture
Amy Pritchett, professor and head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, spoke as part of Volpe's newest speaker series, The Ongoing Transformation of the Global Transportation System.
Autonomy for Humans
Jeffrey Schnapp, co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and founder/director of metaLAB (at) Harvard, kicked off Volpe's newest speaker series, The Ongoing Transformation of the Global Transportation System.
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.