Department Honors Volpe HR Director for Helping Create Ladders of Opportunity

Digitizing for Better Decision Making

A recent article written by Volpe and FHWA reveals how transportation planners and academics combined proactive relationship building with a novel software application to improve safety on Michigan’s 122,000 miles of road.

Lifting the Burden of Climate Change Information Overload

A new report details the concept for a system that would help transportation practitioners navigate the tangle of resources on climate change resiliency.

Side Guards Safety Work Nets National Tech Transfer Award

A Volpe team that investigated and promoted life-saving truck side guards in partnership with Boston, New York, Cambridge, and San Francisco won a national 2016 Federal Laboratory Consortium Excellence in Technology Transfer award.

SBIR-Funded Sensors Detect Pipeline Stresses Early, Mitigating Future Problems

Historically, managing the health of pipelines was mostly reactive; only physical appearances, like major deformations and stresses, provided hints to potential fractures or warping. However, sensors developed with SBIR funding can now reveal pipeline stressors before they are visible, and...

Using Data to Assess the Feasibility of a New Road in Monrovia

The U.S. foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation contracted with Volpe to help assess the feasibility of an alternate route to points north in Liberia's largest port and other transportation options.

Pilot Program Yields Significant Rail Safety Improvements, Evaluation Shows

The March 2016 edition of Safety Science highlights the results of Volpe’s independent evaluation of a two-year pilot initiative sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration.

11 Emerging Technologies That Could Have Major Impacts on Transportation

​A recent report by Volpe experts identifies emerging technologies and innovative applications that may have significant impacts on our transportation systems within three to five years.

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.

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...