Public Lands Projects
Who We Work With
|
|
Bureau of Land Management
Volpe works closely with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to develop a comprehensive internal and external communication strategy to educate BLM stakeholders on the importance of BLM's transportation resources and the extent of its needs. Outreach materials include published and web-based information booklets and state and program-based fact sheets that illustrate BLM's transportation resources with maps, photographs, and statistics. Volpe also works with BLM field offices to provide technical assistance in enhancing alternative transportation access to BLM lands.
Portfolio Managers: Laura Richards and Emily Navarrete
- Alternative Transportation System Inventory
- Central New Mexico: An Interagency Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change Initiative
- Long Range Transportation Plan
- Red Rock Canyon Transportation Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment
- Transportation and the Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
Volpe provides technical assistance to the Department of the Interior (DOI) in several research areas, including alternative fuels, intelligent transportation systems, lifecycle cost modeling, visitor management, and demand estimation for alternative transportation. This work is funded by the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks (TRIP) Program as part of the program's funding set aside for research activities. Volpe provides direct technical assistance to several agencies within DOI, including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
Portfolio Manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
- Alaska Federal Lands Collaborative Long Range Transportation Plan Update
- Alternative Fuel Guidelines for Alternative Transportation Systems
- Bus and Ferry Lifecycle Cost Modeling
- Intelligent Transportation Systems in National Parks and Federal Public Lands - 2011 Update
- Alternative Transportation System Demand Estimation for Federal Land Management Agencies
- Visitor Access Resource Guide
National Park Service
Volpe supports the National Park Service (NPS) Washington Office, regions, and units with transportation planning efforts both at the project and program levels. Examples of support tasks include planning and evaluating alternative transportation systems, supporting the transportation components of NPS General Management Plan (GMP) updates, assisting development of long-range transportation plans, and aiding in development of national and region-wide transportation management systems.
Alaska Region
Portfolio Manager: Kaite Justice
- Denali National Park: Alternative Fuel Mass Transportation Technical Assistance and Prototype Vehicle Evaluation
- Kenai Fjords National Park: Over-the-Snow Transportation Feasibility Study
Intermountain Region
Portfolio Manager: Katie McLaughlin
- Central New Mexico: An Interagency Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change Initiative
- Devils Tower Transit Feasibility Study
- Glacier National Park: Going-to-the-Sun Road Corridor Management Plan
Midwest Region
Portfolio Manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore: Alternatives Analysis for LCM Replacement
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park Analyses
- Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: Transportation Planning Study
- Isle Royale National Park
- Mississippi National River and Recreation Area: Alternative Transportation Systems Implementation
National Capital Region
Portfolio Managers: Eric Englin and Michael Littman
- Baltimore-Washington Parkway: Traffic Safety Plan
- George Washington Memorial Parkway: Mount Vernon Trail Corridor Study
- NCR Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Access Design Concepts
Northeast Region
Portfolio Manager: David Koch
- Adams National Historical Park Trolley Vehicle Replacement Selection Analysis
- Cape Cod National Seashore: Parking Management and Traveler Information System Development and Deployment
- Eisenhower National Historic Site: Visitor Transportation and Access Study
- Regional Work:
- Lowell National Historical Park Trolley Condition Assessment
- Morristown National Historical Park Alternative Transportation Study
To learn more about the projects in the Northeast Region, see Additional Projects.
Pacific West Region
Portfolio Manager: Kaite Justice
- Joshua Tree National Park: Visitor Vehicle Emissions Study
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park: Dyea Area Transit Feasibility Study
- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park: Lewis and Clark Shuttle Lessons Learned
- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area: Visitor Vehicle Air and Noise Emissions Study
- Yosemite National Park: Visitor Vehicle Emissions Study
Southeast Region
Portfolio Manager: Hoamy Tran
- Cape Lookout National Seashore: Maritime and Landside Operations Analysis Assistance
- Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Transportation Assistance Group Report
- Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: Assessment of Management of Kennesaw Mountain Road and Bus Shuttle Service
- Mammoth Cave National Park Green River Ferry Service Life Analysis
- Natchez Trace Parkway Bicycle Planning Study
- Road Safety Audits at Blue Ridge Parkway, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Natchez Trace Parkway
- San Juan National Historic Site Transportation Assistance Group
Washington Office
Portfolio Managers: Holly Bostrom and Kevin McCoy
- Active Transportation Guidebook
- Congestion Management Support
- Digital Transit Data Sharing Pilot
- Emerging Mobility
- External Transportation Funding Opportunities
- Gettysburg-Eisenhower Preliminary Transportation Planning (PTP)
- National Long-Range Transportation Plan
- NPS National Transit Inventory
- NPS Transportation Innovative Finance Options
Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division
Portfolio Manager: Amanda Rapoza
Volpe supports the NPS Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division (NSNSD) in the protection of soundscape resources and other acoustic-related matters of parks. Examples of support tasks include development of air tour management plans, reviewing NPS planning and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, and related environmental compliance activities, and reviewing noise regulations/guidance related to National Parks.
- Air Tour Management Plans (ATMPs): The ATMP Program is a joint effort by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the NPS. Volpe has supported ATMPs at the following national parks:
- Badlands National Park
- Big Cypress National Preserve
- Death Valley National Park
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
- Governors Island National Monument
- Haleakala National Park
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
- Lake Mead National Recreation Area
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Point Reyes National Seashore
- Statue of Liberty National Monument
- Grand Canyon National Park: Special Flight Rules Area in the Vicinity of Grand Canyon National Park: Actions to Substantially Restore Natural Quiet
- Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks: Modeling Snowmobile and Snowcoach Noise in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
- Quieter Pavements
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Volpe supports transportation planning efforts on public lands under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) management. As a new core member of the Federal Lands Highway Program, USACE seeks to further develop its transportation program by integrating transportation planning into existing business lines and strategic plans. Volpe supports USACE in the development of a comprehensive transportation planning strategy and in the buildout of its Natural Resources Management Gateway website to include transportation-related elements. Additionally, Volpe is leading a vehicle counter calibration pilot project in seven USACE regions to help systematize vehicle counter methods and best practices for vehicle counter deployment.
Portfolio Manager: Katie McLaughlin
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Volpe work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service includes climate change scenario planning, transit and trails access to refuges, long range transportation planning technical support, livability and sustainability planning, and unit transportation planning technical assistance.
Portfolio Manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
- Cape Cod: Interagency Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change Pilot Project
- Central New Mexico: An Interagency Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change Initiative
- Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge:
- John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge Technical Assistance
- Kaua'i National Wildlife Refuge Complex: Comprehensive Transportation Planning Study
- Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge: Transit Planning Study
- Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge: Alternative Transportation Study
- Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge: Alternative Transportation Study
- Parker River National Wildlife Refuge: Transit Planning Study
- Transit and Trail Connections: Assessment of Visitor Access to National Wildlife Refuges
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Regional Alternative Transportation Evaluation Reports
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Electric Tram Research Project
- Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge:
- TAG: Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
U.S. Forest Service
Volpe activities with U.S. Forest Service focus primarily on alternative transportation-related planning, analysis, development, engineering, implementation, assessment, and evaluation of transportation systems and services. In additions to studies at individual forests, Volpe provides alternative transportation program support for the Forest Service at a national level.
Portfolio Manager: Jonah Chiarenza
- Angeles National Forest Transit Corridor Analysis
- Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest: Transit Feasibility Study
- Auk Village Recreation Area: Parking and Road Improvements Analysis
- CAR-LESS California
- Coronado National Forest, Sabino Canyon Recreation Area: Transportation Analysis and Feasibility Study
- Deschutes National Forest: Alternative Transportation Feasibility Study
- Long-Range Transportation Plan
- Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie: Alternative Transportation Study Guidance
- Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest: Alternative Transportation Feasibility Study
- Pike and San Isabel National Forests
- San Juan National Forest, Chimney Rock Archaeological Area: Potential for Alternative Transportation
- Tongass National Forest: Transportation System Opportunity Study
- Transportation Resiliency Guidebook
-
- White River National Forest
- TAG: Apache Trail, Tonto National Forest
- TAG: Road 151, Santa Fe National Forest
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration - Office of Federal Lands Highway
Volpe assists the Office of Federal Lands Highway (FLH) in producing outreach materials associated with FLH's 25th anniversary, and conducting research and synthesizing materials in preparation for the anticipated reauthorization of surface transportation legislation. Outreach materials included over 60 web-based fact sheets covering each component of the Federal Lands Highway Program (FLHP) and each of the three FLH division offices, and highlighting FLHP projects in each of the states and territories FLH serves. Volpe also worked with each of FLH's core federal land management agency partners to develop assessments of their transportation funding needs and synthesize their proposals for reauthorization.
FLH Portfolio Managers: Jared Fijalkowski and Jessica Torossian
Central FLH Portfolio Manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
Eastern FLH Portfolio Manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
Western FLH Portfolio Manager: Kaitlin Justice
- Federal Lands Collaborative Long-Range Transportation Planning Assistance and Pacific Northwest Pilot
- Federal Lands Highways Headquarters: Performance Management Framework Support
- Planning and Data-Sharing Partnerships Between Governments and Public Land Management Agencies Research Study
- The Future of E-Bikes on Public Lands Research Study
- Transportation Planning in Tribal Communities Research Study
State and Local Agencies
State and local agencies manage vast public lands which are of equal importance to recreation and conservation as federal public lands. Volpe works with state and local agencies to address transportation challenges for parks, conservation areas, recreation areas and other state and local public lands which are often right in our own backyards.
Portfolio Manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
- Garden of the Gods - Shuttle Service Plan
- Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie - Alternative Transportation Study Guidance
- Maroon Bells Shuttle Staging Study
- East Vail Trail Access
Presidio Trust
The Presidio Trust is a federal agency that manages the Presidio of San Francisco, a 1,500-acre former military post at the northern tip of San Francisco, in partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. The Presidio Trust preserves the park’s unique historical and natural resources and provides recreational access at no cost to taxpayers, by raising revenue from leasing homes and commercial space throughout the Presidio. The Volpe Center supports the Presidio Trust transportation planning team plan for transit operations and transit vehicle technology evaluation.
Portfolio manager: Benjamin Rasmussen
