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Transportation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics, held from June to October 2018, convened distinguished experts in government innovation, vehicle automation, and logistics to consider the promise and potential of recent breakthroughs in machine learning and data...
Screenshots of the online submission form fields for the FY19 U.S. DOT SBIR Solicitation.
Notes from the Decenber 2017 meeting of the Global Railway Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
This document is an example of a correctly completed Contract Pricing Worksheet (Appendix C) for the U.S. DOT SBIR FY 2019 Solicitation.
Technical and administrative questions for the U.S. DOT SBIR FY 2019 Solicitation.
U.S. DOT's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program awards contracts to small businesses to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation challenges. The attached document outlines the FY 2019 Solicitation request to invite small...
Notes from the August 6, 2018 meeting of the Global Railway Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
The Volpe Center is using GIS mapping to study where trespass and suicide incidents occur along railroad rights-of-way, which may help the Federal Railroad Administration and rail carriers understand why a particular incident occurred and implement potential countermeasures.
For FRA, rail operators, and communities to reduce rail suicides, they need to comprehensively understand the characteristics of such incidents. The U.S. DOT Volpe Center analyzed FRA data to produce a baseline measure of rail trespassing and suicide incidents. This baseline is the...
Every year, there are approximately 270 to 325 fatalities reported by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) that a state coroner or medical examiner determines to be a suicide. However, systems to determine whether a fatality is a suicide can vary by county. That nationwide inconsistency can...