Policy & Planning
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...Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety and Trespass Prevention Research
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Systems Safety and Engineering Division works on behalf of the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety and Trespass Prevention Program to evaluate methodologies, visual and audio warnings, motor vehicle and train presence detection,...Connected Vehicles at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Research
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Systems Safety and Engineering Division supports FRA research activities related to designing, developing, and testing the Railroad Crossing Violation Warning (RCVW) vehicle-to-infrastructure safety application for connected vehicles. This collection of publications and...Introducing Students to Careers in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
In 2014, FHWA sponsored an SBIR topic titled “STEM Education: Increasing Awareness about Intelligent Transportation Systems and Connected Vehicle Technologies for High School Students.” The topic aimed to create innovative, hands-on, problem-based learning opportunities that would give students the...Comparison of Two Community Noise Models Applied to a NASA Urban Air Mobility Concept Vehicle
InterNoise 2021
Abstract ID 1650
By Stephen A. Rizzi, NASA Langley, USA; Juliet A. Page, U.S. DOT Volpe Center, USA; and Rui Cheng, NIA, USA
Comparison of Two Community Noise Models Applied to a NASA Urban Air Mobility Concept Vehicle
CitationRizzi, Stephen A., Juliet A. Page, and Rui Cheng. Comparison of Two Community Noise Models Applied to a NASA Urban Air Mobility Concept Vehicle, Internoise 2021, August 2021.
AbstractPredictions of community noise exposure from a NASA urban air mobility (UAM) concept...
Development of Fly Neighborly Helicopter Model Specific Operational Noise Abatement Guidance from Acoustic Flight Test Data
CitationPage, Juliet A., Amanda Rapoza, and Eric Jacobs. Development of Fly Neighborly Helicopter Model Specific Operational Noise Abatement Guidance from Acoustic Flight Test Data, Internoise 2021, August 2021.
AbstractHelicopter model-specific noise abatement guidance...