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Past Events

To read news and see videos from our past speakers, click on an event below. You can use the filters to find events that are of greatest interest to you.

Michael Dinning, director of Multimodal Programs and Partnerships at Volpe, spoke about cybersecurity on February 17, 2012. His team is working on strenghtening the cybersecurity of industrial control systems.


Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, the Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at Harvard University, presented his insights on urbanization, modal shift, and congestion on February 9, 2012.


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Gregg Fleming, director of the Center for Environmental and Energy Systems at Volpe, spoke about current global initiatives and parternships that are attempting to make aviation greener on December 20, 2011.


Max Donath, director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute at the University of Minnesota, spoke about reducing road fatalities by focusing on human-centered systems on November 1, 2011.


Kevin Gay, senior operations research analyst and Safety Pilot Program team member at Volpe, spoke on research being conducted by Volpe and the University of Michigan on an extensive deployment of connected vehicles on October 25, 2011.


In the United States, we have shown that high speed rail can successfully compete with air, but have we shown that they can work together to make a better system? Matthew A. Coogan, the director of the New England Transportation Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to intermodal and interdisciplinary issues, presented this topic on October 4, 2011.


Karen Van Dyke, Volpe's principal technical advisor on global positioning systems and director of  Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) at the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, presented recent developments in PNT on September 27, 2011.


David Soucie, owner of Sans Soucie Enterprises and author of Why Planes Crash - An Accident Investigator Fights for Safe Skies, spoke at Volpe about what he called "risk IQ," which relates to how an organization measures its own safety culture, on September 13, 2011.


Peter H. Appel, former administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, presented his perspectives on transportation technology and policy, as well as the administration's focus in 2011 and beyond, on September 1, 2011.


Shelley Row, the director of the Intelligent Transportation Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), presented her office's role in visioning and preparing for a future where connected vehicles can make our travel more safe, mobile, and environmentally friendly on July 26, 2011.

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