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As airplanes move through the air, counter-rotating horizontal tornadoes are generated off the wings. This phenomenon, known as wake turbulence, creates a potentially dangerous situation for trailing aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) counts on experts at U.S. DOT Volpe Center,...
Action Plan by Department of Transportation on the Implementation of Executive Order 13329: Encouraging Innovation in Manufacturing
"Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership: A Commercialization Collaborator." Helping companies overcome challenges to successfully commercialize their technologies.
Volpe's National Multimodal Catalog for the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration.
This research is intended to improve railroad safety by developing means to prevent derailments due to lateral buckling of the track under a moving train.
13.2 Phase 1 Recommendations for Award for the U.S. DOT's Small Business Innovation Research program
Volpe has a long history of working side-by-side with university and college faculty on challenging transportation topics. We are interested in having tenured or tenure-track faculty members, especially those on sabbatical, spend time at our facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working on...
Technical and testing information related to alcohol countermeasures.
A listing of web pages related to instrument procedures.
Volpe is examining chart formats and the use of information from the charts. The research on chart formats explores ways to improve the readability of a chart when there is a lot of information is presented in a small space.