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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...

What's New at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center - October 2024

Highlights of recent U.S. DOT Volpe Center project stories—along with the latest news from around the U.S. DOT Volpe Center.

U.S. DOT Volpe Center Human Factors Study Informs Rule for Air Travelers with Disabilities

For the estimated 5.5 million Americans who use a wheelchair, travel by air can be a significant challenge with the risk of damage to their wheelchair or injury during enplaning and deplaning. To address these challenges, the U.S. DOT recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to...

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...

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...

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...

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