U.S. DOT Volpe Center Annual Accomplishments: January 2020
Our Annual Project Accomplishments document represents some of our best work of 2019 and underscores our sustained support to the DOT and others.
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Autonomous Vehicles That Include Risk in Their Decision Making
Professor Brian Williams, MIT’s Bisplinghoff Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, recently spoke as part of the U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Our New Mobility Future speaker series. His research concentrates on the creation of long-lived autonomous systems that are able to explore, command, and...
Volpe Center Shares NASA Award for Contributions to Airport Congestion Reduction
A team of experts developing and testing an early prototype automation system aimed at reducing congestion in our nation’s airports received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) 2018 Aeronautics Associate Administrator Technology and Innovation Award, which recognizes work...
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center's 2018 Reports
The U.S. DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center published nearly 60 reports and conference papers in 2018 spanning a breadth of transportation topics that advance U.S. DOT’s priorities: safety, infrastructure, innovation, and accountability. Preview and download copies...
U.S. DOT Volpe Center Annual Accomplishments: January 2019
Our Annual Project Accomplishments document represents some of our best work of 2018 and underscores our sustained support to the DOT and others.
What Blockchains Could Mean for Government and Transportation Operations
This report provides a high-level overview of blockchain concepts and how they are being used to innovate in government and transportation.
U.S. DOT Volpe Center 2017 Annual Accomplishments
Our Annual Project Accomplishments document represents some of our best work of 2017 and underscores our sustained support to the DOT and others.
Transportation in a World That Is Gray, Delayed, Small, and Female
Joseph F. Coughlin, founder and director of the MIT AgeLab, discussed how an aging American population will shape the nation's transportation system.