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Safety

Systems Safety and Engineering

Volpe’s Systems Engineering and Safety Division conducts engineering, research, and analysis to synthesize technical requirements, regulatory information, and program guidance in order to optimize transportation system performance and safe operations.

Transportation Human Factors

Volpe’s Transportation Human Factors Division provides internationally recognized human factors research, engineering, development, and evaluation capabilities within a human systems integration framework. We pioneer new relationships between humans and policies, processes, automation, and...

Safety Research and Analysis

Volpe’s Safety Research and Analysis Division performs safety analysis, business process redesign, performance and program effectiveness measurement, and communications and outreach to support safety management systems.

Aviation Safety Management Systems

Volpe’s Aviation Safety Management Systems Division provides systems engineering and analysis, operations research, and associated information technology expertise to enhance aviation operational safety. We provide technical and risk analysis expertise on aviation and aerospace safety issues. Our...

Safety Information Systems

Volpe’s Safety Information Systems Division provides the full spectrum of information technology (IT) life-cycle support for safety information systems. Our work includes development of IT system requirements, software design, enterprise architecture, IT development, system testing and deployment,...

Safety Management and Human Factors

Our Center for Safety Management and Human Factors improves transportation safety by developing and applying innovative safety management and human factors processes and principles to our sponsors’ research and demonstration projects.

Cracked Up—Broken Rails Are Serious Business

Nearly all cracks in rails are hidden—so says Dr. David Jeong, senior mechanical engineer at Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center. Jeong and his colleagues, in support of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), have been examining the mechanics of metal fatigue and crack growth...