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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.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...Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable Transportation System
Transportation is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. GHG emissions from transportation account for about 28 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s 2021 speaker series on Innovation for a Sustainable, Equitable...The Imperative and Opportunity to Invest in Resilient Infrastructure
Learn more about the U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s recent Straight from the Source event with Dr. Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute and a professor of political science and of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.Globally Integrated Logistics and the Changing Character of War
General Stephen R. Lyons, commander of the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), spoke at the Volpe Center on September 17 about "Globally Integrated Logistics and the Changing Character of War.”
A Successful Partnership: DOD and U.S. DOT Update Agreement on Cross-Departmental Collaboration
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) recently updated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the U.S. DOT Volpe Center. The updated MOU reinforces the important cross-departmental collaboration and long-standing partnership between...