The Volpe Public Lands Team works on a variety of program activities and site-specific projects with several different agencies, including the following:

• Federal Highway Administration (Federal Lands Highway Program)
• Federal Transit Administration
• National Park Service
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• U.S. Forest Service
• Bureau of Land Management

The team's work addresses agencies' transportation system needs and priorities and is supported in part by a Memorandum of Understanding executed between DOT and the Department of the Interior (DOI).

The Public Lands Team's skills, knowledge, and experiences are well aligned with agency needs. Staff members have a wide range of relevant technical capabilities at both the program and project levels.

At the program level:

• Supporting national and regional long range transportation planning (LRTP)
• Evaluating impacts of federal policies and programs
• Conducting strategic research and analysis
• Building professional and organizational capacity
• Analyzing potential for public/private partnership financing
• Assessing vehicle technology and alternative fuels
• Assessing strategic application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies
• Providing best practice and lessons learned to public lands agencies

At the project level:

• Transportation feasibility and planning studies
• System analyses and evaluations
• Interagency site visits and reviews
• Analyses of alternative transportation systems
• Financial analyses
• Environmental impact analyses
• Traffic/transportation data analyses
• Analyses of partnering opportunities
• Marine systems planning
• Rail systems planning
• Traffic and parking operational assessments
• Planning and development of technology applications
• Grant application support
• Stakeholder and public facilitation
• Technical assistance to individual public lands as requested
• Procurement guidance