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Report on Opportunities for Maritime Highway Transportation in the Gulf of Mexico, Puget Sound, and Salish Sea System
The U.S. Marine Highway System consists of thousands of miles of navigable channels, waterways, rivers, bays, coasts, the Great Lakes, and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The goal of the Maritime Administration’s (MARAD’s) U.S. Marine Highway Program (USMHP) is to expand the use of the Nation’s...What’s New at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center – November 2024
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center works to advance U.S. DOT’s mission: to deliver the world’s leading transportation system, serving the American people and economy through the safe, efficient, sustainable, and equitable of movement of people and goods. Read on for some recent U.S. DOT Volpe Center project...U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg Visits the U.S. DOT Volpe Center
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center welcomed U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on November 12, 2024. The Secretary participated in a Town Hall with more than 500 U.S. DOT Volpe Center and U.S. DOT Region 1 staff. U.S. DOT Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and...Report to Congress Highlights National Environmental Policy Act Process Success and Improvements
The Biden-Harris Administration has made strides to improve environmental review and permitting to ensure the delivery of well-designed infrastructure projects, including those enabled by BIL. In preparing this report to Congress, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center team conducted interviews with operating...Locomotive Emissions Comparison Tool for Rail Grant Applicants
The U.S. DOT Volpe Center was the lead developer of the LECT, working closely with FRA and its stakeholders in summer 2023 to design the Excel-based tool. The LECT was based on FHWA’s Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Emissions Calculator Toolkit, also developed by the U.S. DOT Volpe...Strengthening Transit Systems through a Resilience Planning Framework
Efforts to make transit systems more resilient to the impacts of current and future natural hazards are imperative to ensuring transit fulfills the critical role it plays across American communities. By proactively embedding resilience into all aspects of decision-making, transit agencies can...Recap: Panel 3: Project Acceleration for the Public Good
On October 22, 2024, the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence held the final event of the three-part thought leadership series: Making Good on the Potential of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. U.S. DOT Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Mariia Zimmerman delivered opening...