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Improving Efficiency and Energy Security of Transportation and Reducing Emissions

Enhancing efficiency of transportation sources can improve energy independence and economic and functional resilience in the transportation sector while reducing greenhouse gas and other emissions. Distributed and diverse energy production and utilization can enable transportation...

Recap: Strategies to Overcome Transportation Barriers for Rent Burdened Residents

On September 23, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed Susan Shaheen, PhD, as the final speaker in its 2021 thought leadership speaker series, Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System. Shaheen is the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center of the Institute...

Recap: Mobility Best Practices and E-Mobility Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Accelerating EV Adoption

On September 14, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed EVNoire's Shelley Francis, PhD, to its 2021 thought leadership speaker series. Francis is the co-founder and principal of EVNoire, which focuses on E-mobility best practices and E-mobility diversity, equity, and inclusion and electrification...

Recap: Toward Carbon Neutral Mobility

On August 24, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed Ford Motor Company’s Tim Wallington, PhD, to its 2021 thought leadership speaker series. Wallington is a senior technical leader in research and advanced engineering in the Research and Innovation Center at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit and an...

Recap: The Transportation and Climate Initiative: Multi-State Collaboration to Advance Equitable Low-Carbon Transportation

On August 3, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed Georgetown University Climate Center’s James Bradbury, PhD, to its 2021 thought leadership speaker series. Bradbury is the Mitigation Program Director for the Georgetown Climate Center at the Georgetown University Law Center. This post provides a...

Recap: Advancing a Just and Low-Carbon Future with Urban Electrification

On July 20, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) welcomed Dr. Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, to its 2021 thought...

Recap: Net-Zero America: Potential Pathways, Infrastructure, and Impacts

On June 22, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) welcomed Dr. Erin Mayfield of Princeton University to its 2021 thought leadership speaker series, Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System.

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Recap: A Climate-Resilient Future Is an Equitable, Just Future

On June 8, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed Dr. Edward R. Carr of Clark University to continue its 2021 thought leadership speaker series, Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System. Dr. Carr is the director of Clark’s International Development, Community, and Environment...

Recap: Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System

On June 2, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) welcomed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to kick off its 2021 thought leadership speaker series, Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System. Deputy...

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