NHTSA Mobile App Improves Transportation Safety

SaferCar allows users to search 5-Star Safety Ratings, find child car seat installation help, file vehicle safety complaints, and receive notices or search for vehicle recalls.

Analyzing and Assessing Innovations in Aviation

Volpe is providing assessments and analyses for proposed NextGen air traffic innovations and researching integrated safety processes for NextGen applications.

Volpe's 30 Years Supporting the DOT SBIR Program Have Fostered Transportation Innovations and Economic Growth

Volpe's 30 years of support to the DOT SBIR program have fostered successful transportation innovations and economic growth.

Maritime Situational Awareness Infographic

U.S. DOT Volpe Center has been in the vanguard of developing and deploying state-of-the-art, easy-to-use, cost-effective vessel tracking networks that enhance maritime situational awareness in waterways around the world. Renowned for its major technological advances in communications, traffic...

Advanced Vehicle Technology

Volpe’s Advanced Vehicle Technology Division performs engineering analyses to facilitate the deployment and enhance the safety of advanced technologies in motor vehicles.

Technology Analysis and Strategy

Volpe's Unique Simulator Revolutionizes Breathalyzer Evaluation

Volpe's Ed Conde, Art Flores, and Alan Kauffman spend their days testing blood alcohol detection devices to identify the highest caliber products for federal, state, and local law enforcement and transportation personnel. 

Partnerships with Japan, EU Accelerate ITS Development

International cooperation between the United States, Japan, and the European Union is helping accelerate the research and development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) standards and technologies by fostering collaboration between professionals on three continents. Volpe transportation...

Big Data Analytics: Driving Value Beyond the Hype

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...

New Mobile App Helps Consumers Assess Bus Safety

Recently, a team at Volpe partnered with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to develop and launch the SaferBus app—the first mobile application developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)—to enable users to view the safety records of bus companies.