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Wake turbulence—the disturbed air immediately behind an aircraft—is potentially hazardous to following and nearby aircraft if not operationally accounted for. To ensure safety, wake separation standards are devised to alleviate the adverse effect of wake turbulence. This has increasingly become...
There was a time when travel safety could be improved by training drivers and designing crash survival into vehicles. That is no longer the case, said Dr. Qi Van Eikema Hommes, senior electronics engineer in Volpe's Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies. "Your car is no longer a...
We are currently experiencing an explosion of "big data." Big data is "a collection of digital data sets so large and complex that it is beyond the capabilities of current database management tools," said Robert C. Johns, associate administrator and director of Volpe, The National Transportation...
Transportation planning in the United States is facing a compelling need to add a significant focus to meet the growing demands of "megaregions."
Craig Middlebrook, Acting Administrator for the U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC), discussed the Seaway’s innovation, where leading-edge engineers and stakeholders respond to the many geographical and international challenges they encounter.
Automated or autonomous? That is the question, said Gary Ritter, director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies at Volpe. Ritter recently spoke to the transportation community during Transportation Trajectories, a lecture series featuring Volpe experts.
You are cordially invited to join us in person or via webinar for our next Transportation Trajectories conversation, "The Challenge of Transportation Planning for Megaregions" with Bill Lyons, Principal Technical Advisor for Transportation Planning at the Volpe Center, at 12:00 noon on Tuesday,...
According to Robin Chase, founder and former CEO of Zipcar and GoLoco, creating and maximizing a shared infrastructure like those used in carsharing ventures may hold an answer to low-cost transportation innovation.
The U.S. is at a challenging juncture for transportation infrastructure investment. "Our transportation system, built largely in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, is deteriorating faster than our ability to keep up," said Kirk T. Steudle, president of AASHTO and director of the ...
Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a Harvard Professor of urban planning and public policy, recently spoke at Volpe's Straight from the Source series, where he revealed his insights on urbanization, modal shift, and congestion. Drawing particularly from his research in cities such as Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City,...