What Volpe Talked About at TRB 2016
Volpe staff were among the 5,000 presentations and nearly 800 sessions and workshops covering all transportation modes at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting recently held in Washington, D.C.
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New Pavement System...Supported by Solar Panels?
One of the ways the U.S. Department of Transportation serves the American public is by working with small businesses to find new ways to improve our nation’s roadways. In 2009, the Small Business Innovation Research program solicited research on a topic sponsored by the Federal...
Volpe's 2015 Reports
Volpe published 68 reports and conference papers in 2015 spanning a myriad of transportation research topics. View the 2015 research topic areas and download copies of Volpe’s transportation resources.
Volpe Looks Forward…and Toward Its Next Director
In 2016, Volpe will take action on six emerging issues: advanced automation and emerging technologies; breakthroughs in safety; data analytics, visualization, and real-time decision making; transportation energy and sustainability; transportation system resiliency; and on-demand mobility, smart...
Inside TRB’s New Policy Research on the Transportation Sharing Economy
TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen discussed a new study that addresses a number of policy issues associated with technology-enabled transportation services, such as car-sharing and bike-sharing microtransit services, and transportation network companies, such as Uber and Lyft.
Realizing Self-Driving Vehicles
Eventually, self-driving vehicles will reshape the way we live in, and move through, our communities and cities. In his talk at Volpe, Director of Google's Self-Driving Car Program Chris Urmson shared stories and lessons, along with Google’s vision for how these vehicles will become a...
Innovation: It’s More Than a Buzzword
Earth-shattering innovations rarely happen in a vacuum. From Sputnik to Apollo 11, the Model T to self-driving cars, every transportation technology that challenged us to rethink mobility rose out of entire teams of engineers and designers who bucked convention. Ken Gabriel, president and...
Re-Programming Mobility 2030: Scenarios of Digital Transformation in Metropolitan America
Anthony Townsend, senior research scientist at New York University’s Rudin Center, discussed the signals of our increasingly programmable world and examined mobility in an age of programmability, identifying four broad scenarios for America’s transportation future.
Shaping Rail’s Future in the Northeast
The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is one of the most heavily traveled rail corridors in the world. But the NEC operates on outdated infrastructure with capacity constraints. To address this, the Federal Railroad Administration has released the NEC FUTURE Tier 1 Draft Environmental Impact Statement,...
Industry Disruption: How Connectivity Is Redefining Personal Mobility
In his talk for Volpe's speaker series Reimagining Transportation, Harry Lightsey, executive director of the Global Connected Customer Experience for General Motors, identified four foundational changes happening in the auto industry that are connecting vehicles to each other, to infrastructure...