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A new report geared toward state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) provides a framework for DOTs to integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning and decision making.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Small Business Innovation Research program, administered by Volpe, recently released its full list of round-one 2014 proposals that will receive funding.
If you build integrated walking and bicycling networks into a community’s transportation system, will people use it?
That’s what Congress wanted to know nearly a decade ago when it established the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP). Through NTPP, the Federal Highway...
Thanks to SHRP2, transportation agencies are gaining new tools and approaches to reduce construction time, use improved methods and materials, reduce congestion, and improve safety. A made-to-implement set of these tools and approaches is featured in the January/February 2014 issue of FHWA’s...
In “Setting the Bar for Excellence,” an article in the January/February 2014 issue of FHWA's Public Roads magazine, Volpe community planner Rachel Strauss discusses innovative approaches that are used to incorporate environmental stewardship into transportation projects.
This document is a 508-compliant PDF version of U.S. DOT's SBIR 14.1 Solicitation.
Hyperlinks to Appendix A & B added on 2/12/14
Technical questions submitted by small businesses and the corresponding answers provided by the topic authors for the FY14.1 U.S. DOT SBIR solicitation.
U.S. DOT's SBIR 14.1 solicitation is now closed.
The U.S. DOT’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program will release the fiscal year 2014 solicitation on February 4, 2014.
A recent edition of TR News on environmental sustainability in transportation features three articles by Volpe experts.