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The U.S. DOT Volpe Center Creates Innovative Tools to Track and Respond to Freight Rail Disruptions

The COVID-19 pandemic posed several significant challenges for the freight rail network. As freight rail capacity initially fell and then spiked with increased e-commerce, cascading challenges across the supply chain network resulted in acute rail service issues―including low on-time performance,...

A Whole-of-Government Approach to Federal Coordination of Place-Based Technical Assistance

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act created once-in-a-lifetime levels of funding in federal infrastructure grants that are available to communities around the nation. Applying for federal grants is a resource-intensive effort with significant risk—not only for U.S. DOT...

Announcing New U.S. DOT Volpe Center Director: Gregg Fleming

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center is pleased to announce that Gregg G. Fleming has been named the new U.S. DOT Volpe Center director, effective October 1, 2024. He replaces longtime director Anne Aylward who announced her retirement in Spring 2024.

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center Seeks Student Interns

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center is now recruiting talented individuals to join our team as part of our 2025 U.S. DOT Volpe Center Pathways Internship Program. Interested students can apply via the Pathways Internship job posting on USAJobs.gov, which opened Monday, October 21, 2024 and is expected to...

Recap: Panel 2: Best Practices to Get Big Infrastructure Projects off the Ground

On October 8, 2024, the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence held the second event of the three-part thought leadership series: Making Good on the Potential of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. U.S. DOT Acting Under Secretary of Transportation Policy Christopher Coes delivered opening...

Thank You and Farewell to Anne Aylward

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center gathered recently to say thank you and farewell to our longtime director Anne Aylward who announced her retirement plans this spring. Her last day with the U.S. DOT Volpe Center is September 30, and she is working with our leadership team on transition planning. We will...

Recap: Panel 1: Project Delivery Lessons Learned from Emergency Response Following an Infrastructure Catastrophe

FHWA Associate Administrator for the Office of Infrastructure Hari Kalla and Caltrans Deputy Director for Project Delivery and Chief Engineer Donna Berry discussed strategies for responding to natural disasters and catastrophes, with a focus on rapid recovery and coordination.

Evaluating the Performance of Runway Visual Range Sensors for FAA

At the 30 busiest commercial airports in the U.S., there were about 11.7 million arrivals or departures or approximately 5.9 million flights in fiscal year 2022, according to FAA’s annual publication: Air Traffic by the Numbers. Every one of these flights was enabled by the accurate and consistent...

Safeguarding Pedestrians through the Global Benchmarking Program

“We know roadway deaths are preventable because some places are doing a much better job at preventing them—both abroad and within certain U.S. communities. The U.S. Department of Transportation is committed to making real progress towards ending traffic fatalities, and we call on everyone to join...

Mobility Challenge Grants Aim to Make Michigan's National Parks More Accessible

As part of a collaborative effort to advance and learn about emerging mobility technologies, National Park Service (NPS) and the state of Michigan launched the National Parks Michigan Mobility Challenge (NPMMC) in August 2023. NPMMC was an industry challenge aimed at identifying and deploying...

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