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Logistics

From Farm to Flight: Evaluating Canola-Based Jet Fuels

A Volpe-developed tool is helping researchers perform full chain life-cycle assessments of alternative fuels, including canola-based jet fuels, and examine a range of energy scenarios across the transportation network.

Connecting the Global Economy through Trade and Transportation

Operating a modern logistics system across geopolitical borders drawn hundreds of years ago can sometimes be like fitting a square peg into a round hole—it’s impossible to cross a single border, sometimes even just between counties in the U.S., without encountering a new set of trade priorities...

Transportation Hubs Anchor Economic Ecosystems

Dr. Yossi Sheffi, a professor of transportation logistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently discussed logistics clusters at the first event in Volpe’s newest speaker series Transportation and the Economy. 

Rich McArdle

Biography for Rich McArdle, Managing Director for Global Operations Policy at UPS