How a Few Simple Measurements Can Identify Trucks With Superior Cab Visibility

During summer 2018, U.S. DOT Volpe Center engineer Alex Epstein, PhD, led a public demonstration of how to measure blind spots off of a large truck.

Forecasting Freight Transportation Rates with MIT’s Chris Caplice

The market for buying freight transportation services is complex and can be challenging to forecast. There are traditional statistical forecasting models, and there are models that use artificial intelligence. MIT Center for Transportation Logistics Executive Director Chris Caplice, PhD,...

New Guidebook Offers Strategies to Enhance Active Transportation at National Parks

Visitors to national parks are increasingly exploring natural and cultural resources in new ways, including through active transportation—by foot, bicycle, and other non-motorized modes. A new guidebook from the National Park Service (NPS) is helping parks, their partners, and nearby communities...

A Safer Way to Access Freight Locomotives

With support from the U.S. DOT SBIR program and the Federal Railroad Administration, GS Engineering developed and tested a system that makes accessing freight locomotives easier and safer for railroad engineers and workers.

FY18 Phase I & II/IIB Awards

U.S. DOT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) FY 2018 Phase I, II, and IIB awards.

The Seaway at 60: A Model of Binational Partnership

A ship transiting the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway crosses the international boundary 27 times. Here’s how a U.S.-Canadian partnership that began in the mid-1950s moves more than 200 million tons of freight each year through the Seaway.

Resources for Volpe Aircraft Noise Certification Support

Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPS) Validation

The Volpe Center’s Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division provides support to FAA's Office of Environment and Energy (AEE) by performing validation of differential global positioning systems (DGPS) and methodology used by noise certification applicants to determine aircraft...

Acoustic Instrumentation System Validation

Primary Software and Methodology Validation

View the list of required applicant submittal documents (submittal package) for aircraft noise certification.