Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Straight from the Source

Using Automated Data Collection Systems to Improve Public Transport Performance: Applications at Transport for London

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Nigel H.W. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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March 5-7, 2013

Fourth International Rail Human Factors Conference

London, United Kingdom

Dr. Stephen Popkin, Director of the Center for Safety Management Systems at Volpe will deliver a keynote presentation on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Safety Council's human safety culture and fatigue-related activities and their impact on railroad safety. The conference is a forum to bring together those in the industry needing to apply the expertise, methods, tools and knowledge of rail ergonomics/human factors and the established group of scientists, consultants and regulators worldwide who provide the expertise and knowledge. The meeting proceedings will be published in an edited, peer reviewed volume.

Link for more information: International Rail Human Factors Conference

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Transportation Trajectories

Lessons Learned from Sandy, Irene and Katrina: Restoring Normalcy to the Transportation System through Effective Emergency Response

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Terry Sheehan, Regional Emergency Transportation Representative for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe, the National Transportation Systems Center

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Straight from the Source

Shocks and Consequences: The Case for Bolstering Infrastructure Resilience

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Stephen Flynn, Ph.D, Professor and Founding Co-Director George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security Northeastern University

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February 5 – 7, 2013

Payments Summit

Salt Lake City, Utah

Michael Dinning, Director of the Volpe Center's Technical Center for Transportation Logistics and Security, will lead a session on Transit and Multi-modal Payments, highlighting innovative payment initiatives in public transit, electronic tolling and parking. The goal of the Payment Summit is to identify opportunities to introduce innovative payment technologies in the United States, and is attended by representatives from transportation agencies, financial institutions and mobile payment technology providers.

More: Payments Summit

Thursday, January 31, 2013

SAE 2013 Government/Industry Meeting

Automated and Connected Vehicle Safety
(Session Code: G103)

Room 145 AB 10:15 a.m.

This session focuses on longer term technologies for vehicles of the future, with a primary focus on the research feeding into the 2013 NHTSA decision on Connected Vehicles technology. The session may also explore advanced technologies such as automated, driverless vehicles. Volpe Center staff members Kevin W. Gay and Emily Nodine will be presenting on the Safety Pilot.

Link to more conference information >> SAE 2013

Wednesday, January 23-24, 2013

Helicopter Safety Advisory Conference (HSAC)

New Orleans, Louisiana

Christopher Tracy, an Aerospace Engineer in Volpe's Aircraft Wakes and Weather Division will participate in the upcoming HSAC, a forum for the open communication between a wide spectrum of individuals, corporations, government agencies and others to promote safe procedures in the operation of rotary-winged aircraft. The conference motto is "Safety through Cooperation." As part of an update on ADS-B led by FAA, Mr. Tracy will brief on Traffic Situational Awareness with Alerts (TSAA), an ADS-B application that provides alerts to aircraft pilots when there is an increased risk of mid-air collision. ADS-B is one of the most important, underlying technologies in the FAA's plan to transform air traffic control from the current radar-based system to a satellite-based system.

Link for more information: HSAC

January 13-17, 2013

Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting

Washington, DC

Volpe staff will be participating in many TRB sessions – view: Volpe at TRB 2013

For more information: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2013/AnnualMeeting2013.aspx

December 5-7, 2012

The International Workboat Show

Morial Convention Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

Volpe Center staff members from the Security and Emergency Management Division, David Sawin and Robert Hoaglund, in support of the Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT), will present "Cybersecurity in Maritime: The Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in Transportation." Mr. Hoaglund will also participate as a panel member in the 2012 Workboat Professional Series conference program on "Integrating the Workboat Community into the National Response Framework."

For more information: Workboat Show

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

David Y. Jeong, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineer, Structures and Dynamics Division at the Volpe Center will speak on Cracked Up – Broken Rails are Serious Business

In 2011, the Class I railroads operated trains on over 112,000 miles of track in the United States. Rails represent a majority of the railroads' capital assets. Moreover, railroads spend a significant part of their budget maintaining rail. Based on statistics collected by the Federal Railroad Administration, broken rails accounted for nearly one-third of all track-caused incidents in 2011. The consequences from broken rail derailments can be severe.

The Volpe Center has been providing technical support to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) by conducting track safety research since the 1970s. One area of long-term research is rail integrity, which deals with the prevention and control of rail failures. Broken rails, or rail failures, generally occur as a result of metal fatigue. That is, fatigue cracks develop and grow in the rail steel from cyclic forces caused by the repeated passage of trains over the rails. Volpe Center research, in support of FRA, has concentrated on understanding the mechanics of metal fatigue and crack growth. This research has led to the development of guidelines to schedule periodic rail tests, or nondestructive inspections of rail, to search for fatigue cracks before they grow to sufficient size to cause rail failure. The topics that will be discussed in this presentation will include: recent accidents caused by broken rail derailments, Volpe Center rail integrity research accomplishments, and future challenges.

November 28 -30, 2012

FAA's Annual Aviation Industry Technical Forum

Herndon, Virginia

Volpe Center staff members, in support of FAA, will be participating in the forum and there will be a booth highlighting SWIM activities.

Link for more information: FAA Aviation Industry Forum 2012

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

Steven Lang, Director, Center for Air Traffic Systems and Operations at the Volpe Center will speak on Advancing Aircraft Wake Turbulence Research to Achieve Aviation Capacity and Safety Objectives
For over 40 years, the Volpe Center, in support of FAA, has been measuring and analyzing wake turbulence and recommending adjustments to aviation standards to improve air traffic safety and capacity.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

Qi Van Eikema Hommes, a staff member in the Volpe Center's Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies will speak on Better Means to Anticipate What May Go Wrong:
Assessment of Hazard Analysis Techniques for Increasingly Complex Electronic Control Systems in Highly-integrated Transportation Systems.

November 8-9, 2012

7^th Annual Transportation Research Board's University Transportation Center Spotlight Conference on Sustainable Energy and Transportation: Strategies, Research and Data

Washington, DC

Dr. Aviva Brecher, Principal Technical Advisor, Energy Analysis and Sustainability Division at the Volpe Center will participate in discussions on the latest research findings and best practices, and represent rail modal R&D needs for technologies, alternative fuels and operational strategies to improve E3 performance.

November 3-9, 2012

United Nations International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) Meeting

Beijing, China

Volpe Center staff will participate in the upcoming United Nations International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) meeting. The ICG promotes cooperation on areas of mutual interest with respect to civil satellite-based positioning, navigation, and timing systems and value-added services. In particular, the ICG focuses on interoperability and compatibility of global satellite navigation systems (GNSS).

October 26, 2012

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Conference

Boston, Massachusetts

Matt Isaacs of the Volpe Center's Surface Transportation Human Factors Division will participate in a panel session at the 2012 Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFES) national conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The panel discussion is titled "Reducing Major Rule Violations in Commuter Rail Operations: The Role of Distraction and Attentional Errors" and it will focus on the evaluation of a new rail engineer training program which the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Rail (MBCR) expects to deploy in 2013. Matt Isaacs will discuss how the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Cab Technology Integration Laboratory (CTIL) was used to support the validation of the training and how CTIL can be used as a way to bring together the rail industry and scientific researchers to further transportation safety. Other panel participants include Dr. Raja Parasuraman of George Mason University; Dr. Don Fisher, Chair, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst; and George Elsmore of Veolia Transportation, majority shareholder of the MCBR. The HFES Conference allows human factors professionals from across the country to discuss the latest research practices being used in many technological fields.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Straight from the Source

Every Day Counts: An Innovation Initiative
Every Day Counts is designed to identify and deploy innovation aimed at shortening project delivery, enhancing the safety of our roadways, and protecting the environment.

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Victor M. Mendez, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

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October 17-20, 2012

Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) Conference – 2012

Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Scott Gabree of the Volpe Center's Surface Transportation Human Factors Division will present at the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) Conference. EAPA brings together employee assistance professionals from around the world to discuss current best practices from a variety of different perspectives. Dr. Gabree will participate on a panel which also includes Dr. Richard Gist from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) and Dr. Malva Reid from Amtrak. This panel on"New Regulations for Railroad Crisis Response: Building Evidence-Based Standards" will discuss how the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) developed rules regarding rail carrier response to critical incidents.

For more information: http://www.eapassn.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3539

October 17-18, 2012

WakeNet USA Conference

Seattle, Washington

Volpe Center staff will participate in the FAA-sponsored WakeNet USA meeting in Seattle, Washington. WakeNet USA is a bi-annual meeting conducted for the purpose of communicating ongoing efforts (analysis, testing and deployments) related to Wake Turbulence Research. It is open to international and U.S. participants.

October 16-17, 2012

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Division Fall Technical Conference

Omaha, Nebraska

Michael Coltman, Chief of the Structures and Dynamics Division at the Volpe Center will participate in the upcoming ASME Fall Technical Conference and Data Management Symposium. The conference includes technical sessions on a number of topics relevant to the Center's work in the areas of crashworthiness, track measurement systems, and data management and performance simulation.

For additional information: ASME 2012

October 15-19, 2012

Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) Fall Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Staff from the Volpe Center's Security and Emergency Management Division, David Sawin and Robert Hoaglund, will present on "Control Systems in Pipeline" at the upcoming ICSJWG meeting. This event provides control systems stakeholders from industry, government, academia, international, vendor, and research & development communities, an opportunity to discuss mitigating control system risk across all sectors. The meeting consists of panel discussions, presentations, training, and working group meetings on various topics. In support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Control Systems Security Program (CSSP), the Volpe Center is identifying and recommending solutions to remediate control systems risk throughout the transportation sector.

October 14-18, 2012

31^st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

Williamsburg, Virginia

Volpe Center staff member Hadi Wassaf of the Aircraft Wakes and Weather Division will present two papers entitled "Wake Vortex Characterization Through High-Resolution Doppler Radar – Part I: W-Band Doppler Radar Characteristics and Part II: Analysis Of Wake Vortex Measurements." These papers form a two-part documentation on Volpe Center's experience with wake vortex measurements using a high-resolution W-Band Radar.

Link for conference information: DASC Annual Conference

October 14-17, 2012

20^th Annual Conference for Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation

Salt Lake City, Utah

Alex Linthicum of the Volpe Center's Transportation Planning Division, will participate in the upcoming conference and present on the "Feasibility Study of Over-the-Snow Transit Service in Seward, Alaska" as part of the session titled "New Perspectives in Planning and Designing National Park Service Transportation." On behalf of Michael Kay, also of the Transportation Planning Division, Mr. Linthicum will also present "Bus Lifecycle Cost Modeling in National Parks and on Federal Lands" as part of the session titled "Procurement and Grant Administration."

October 1-3, 2012

Air Traffic Control Association's (ATCA's) 57^th Annual Conference & Exposition

National Harbor, Maryland

Volpe Center staff will participate in and host an exhibit highlighting various Volpe projects supporting the FAA NextGen program.

Link for conference information: ATCA Conference & Expo

September 27-28, 2012

Fire in Vehicles (FIVE) Conference

Chicago, Illinois

Stephanie Markos, of the Volpe Center's Systems Engineering and Safety Division will present a paper, Comparison of the U.S. and European Approaches to Passenger Train Fire Safety, at the second annual Fires in Vehicles (FIVE) International Conference. This paper compares the fire safety requirements for passenger rail equipment contained in Federal Railroad Administration regulations (49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 238) to the European technical specification (TS) 45545.

Link to forum information: Fire in Vehicles Conference

September 25-27, 2012

U.S. DOT's ITS Industry Forum on Connected Vehicles: Moving from Research Toward Implementation

Chicago, Illinois

Staff from the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies at the Volpe Center will participate in meeting – a forum to provide updates and promote lively discussion on the Connected Vehicle Safety, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Infrastructure, and Testing Programs.

Link to forum information: ATCA Conference & Expo

September 24-25, 2012

3^rd Annual Cyber Security in Transportation Summit

Arlington, Virginia

Members of the Center for Transportation Logistics and Security at the Volpe Center will participate in the 3rd Annual TSA 2012 Cyber Security in Transportation Summit hosted by TSA's Office of Information Technology and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command. Summit themes include raising threat awareness, enabling public/private partnerships, creating strategic approaches to information sharing, and facilitating a common understanding of the problem of "cybersecurity" in transportation. The Volpe Center technical staff will deliver presentations on the safety and security of automotive electronics systems and the "Roadmap to Security Control Systems in the Transportation Industry." In addition, the Volpe Center will have an exhibit on our activities in cyber security and a "Transportation Cyber Security Challenge" to interact with attendees.

Link to conference information >> Cyber Security Summit

September 19-20, 2012

A Road Map to Readiness at Best Cost, Reliability and Safety for Ground Vehicles Workshop and Conference

A workshop sponsored by the Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability (RMS) Partnership

Springfield, Virginia

Gary Ritter, Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies at the Volpe Center will participate in a panel titled "A Futurist View of Transportation Systems." The workshop opening keynote speaker is David L. Strickland, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Link to conference information >> RMS Partnership Workshop and Conference

September 13, 2012

Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) Annual Conference

Saratoga Springs, NY

George Noel of the Volpe Center's Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division will present findings from the Regional Level Sensitivity Analysis at the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations Annual Conference (AMPO) The analysis was conducted by Volpe using the Environmental Protections Agency's Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator. The Volpe Center supports Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and various other federal, state, and local agencies in developing measurement and modeling techniques pertaining to transportation-related air-quality.

Link to conference information: AMPO

September 10-14, 2012

6^th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2012)

Vienna, Austria

David Tyrell, Principal Technical Advisor in Train Crashworthiness and Safety at the Volpe Center will participate in the ECCOMAS 2012 and present a strategy to validate the complex computer models needed to show compliance with the Federal Railroad Administration's draft crashworthiness regulations.

Link for conference information: ECCOMAS 2012

August 28-31, 2012

Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference (ATIEC)

Silver Spring, Maryland

Global Harrmonization through Collaboration is the theme of this year's conference. Volpe's Flight Object Engineering Analysis Team will participate in the conference, sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Link for conference information: ATIEC

August 21, 2012

Safety Pilot Deployment Launch

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Kevin Gay and Emily Nodine of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies at the Volpe Center will attend the Safety Pilot Model Deployment Launch. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute researchers and the U.S. Department of Transportation have set August 21 as the launch date for a year-long test being conducted in Ann Arbor of a wireless communication system designed to improve vehicle safety.

Link to launch information: Safety Pilot

August 21, 2012

Alternative Uses of the Highway ROW

Webinar: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Gina Filosa and Carson Poe of the Center for Transportation Policy and Planning at the Volpe Center will lead a webinar focused on Alternative Uses of Highway Right-of-Way. Conducted in collaboration with the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Real Estate Services, presenters will provide an overview of findings from the research; including an exploration of how select state Department of Transportations (DOT) have begun to accommodate alternative energy technologies and alternative fuel facilities in highway right-of-way. Example projects from Oregon, North Carolina and Utah will be highlighted. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.

Link to web conference information: Highway ROW

August 20-24, 2012

Transportation Hazards and Security Summit and Peer Exchange

Irvine, California

Michael Dinning, Director of Transportation Logistics and Security at the Volpe Center will participate in this event – a forum to explore research in transportation security and infrastructure protection.

Link for conference information: Hazards and Security Summit

August 19-22, 2012

INTER-NOISE 2012, the 41^st Annual Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering

New York, New York

Christopher Roof, Chief of the Volpe Center's Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division and division staff menbers Eric Boeker, and Dr. Judy Rochat will present the following papers: "'Advanced Aviation Environmental Modeling Tools to Inform Policymakers," "Intelligent switching between different noise propagation algorithms: analysis and sensitivity," "Overview and application of the Continuous-Flow Traffic Time-Integrated Method (CTIM) for determining the influence of road surfaces on traffic noise" and "Pavement sound absorption measurements in the U.S."   Dr, Rochat will also chair a session on tire-pavement noise measurement methodologies.

Link for conference information: INTER-NOISE

August 14-16, 2012

Air Transport Association – Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Task Force

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Drs. Divya Chandra and Rebecca Grayhem of the Volpe Center's Aviation Human Factors Division will host the Air Transport Association (ATA) Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) Task Force meeting at the Hyatt hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The task force is co-chaired by Dr. Kathy Abbott, Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Flight Deck Human Factors at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Brian Will, B-777 Program Manager at American Airlines. Participants from the FAA, domestic and overseas airlines, the aerospace industry and research organizations will attend. Presentations cover a wide range of topics including performance-based navigation issues, as well as on communications and surveillance. Dr. Chandra leads the Instrument Procedures research program that is conducting human factors research related to performance-based navigation.

August 14-15, 2012

2012 Right of Way Fatality and Trespass Prevention Workshop

St. Louis, Missouri

Dr. Scott Gabree of the Volpe Center's Surface Transportation Human Factors Division will present at the Intentional Deaths/Act session, which will detail the current state and future directions of research on trespasser incidents with a focus on intentional fatalities. The workshop is a forum to share existing information and best practices about right of way trespasser issues and to explore new strategies to reduce the number of incidents and fatalities that occur on the right of way.

Link for conference information: ROW Fatality and Trespass Prevention Workshop

July 29-August 3, 2012

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - 36th Transportation Working Group Meeting

Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Transportation Working Group aims to achieve the liberalization of transportation services and works to enhance the safety of APEC transport systems to encourage economic development in the Asia-Pacific region. The Volpe Center, in support of FAA, will participate in the meeting.

Link to conference information >>APEC – Transportation Working Group

July 27, 2012

TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee – Summer Meeting

Note: This meeting is being held remotely via teleconference/webroom

Williams Lyons, Lindsey Morse and Haley Peckett of the Transportation Planning Division at the Volpe Center will make a webinar presentation to the TRB Subcommittee on Transportation and Health summer meeting on results from Volpe's on-going research for the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Planning on integration of public health considerations in metropolitan and statewide planning.

Link to conference information >>Health and Transportation Subcommittee Meeting

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Straight from the Source

Innovating through Technology at the Seaway: Even Old Infrastructure Dogs Can Learn New Tricks

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Craig H. Middlebrook, Acting Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation,
U.S. Department of Transportation

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July 25-26, 2012

Future of Road Vehicle Automation

Irvine, California - Beckman Center of the National Academies

Jane Lappin, Center for Transportation Policy and Planning at the Volpe Center will kick off a conference on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation, sponsored by several TRB Committees.

Link to conference information >>Future of Road Vehicle Automation

June 24-27, 2012

Transportation-Related Environmental Analysis, Ecology and Air Quality Summer Conference

A workshop sponsored by the Transportation Research Board

Little Rock, Arkansas

Roger Wayson, PhD., of the Volpe Center's Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division will participate in the conference which is focused on the integration of transportation planning, land use, and air quality with the goal of advancing related research and control of environmental impacts. As part of the conference, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation and Air Quality (ADC-20) will also meet. Dr. Wayson is the Secretary of this committee and will present the paper "Status Report: MOVES Sensitivity Study."

Link for conference information: Environmental Analysis, Ecology and Air Quality Conference

July 24, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

The Challenge of Transportation Planning for Megaregions

By 2050, 70% of U.S. population and economic growth is forecast to occur in 10-12 megaregions. Will our transportation network support global competition, avoid gridlock, and protect the environment? We plan transportation for states, urban areas, and modes, but who will plan for megaregions?

with

William M. Lyons
Principal Technical Advisor for Transportation Planning at the Volpe Center

July 9-11, 2012

Waste Management and Resource Efficiency in Transportation Summer Workshop

Madison, Wisconsin

Carson Poe, of the Center of Transportation Policy and Planning at the Volpe Center will speak on the Alternative Uses of Highway Right-of-Way at this upcoming workshop sponsored by the Transportation Research Board. The workshop will explore the development and integration of proactive environmental management systems and sustainability concepts into transportation programs in the industry's evolution from a solid and hazardous waste remediation and management approach to a resource efficiency approach.

Link to conference information >>Transportation Summer Workshop

June 26, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

Automated Vehicles - Coming Soon to a Driveway Near You?

The transition to self-driving cars may present a number of challenges and opportunities for the developer, the regulator and the operator.

with

Gary Ritter
Director, Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies
at the Volpe Center

June 10-12, 2012

Northeast Association of State Transportation Officials (NASTO) Conference

Baltimore, Maryland

Anne Aylward, Deputy Associate Administrator for Research and Innovation at the Volpe Center will participate in this conference on "Regional Issues and Regional Cooperation."

Link to conference information >>NASTO

June 5-6, 2012

RTCA Annual Symposium

Washington, DC

Stephen Lang, Director of the Center for Air Traffic Systems and Operations at the Volpe Center will participate in the RTCA Annual Symposium on Advancing the Goals of NextGen.

Link to conference information >>RTCA

May 29-June 1, 2012

The Changing Environment and its Impact on Climate, Ocean and Weather Services

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society and the American Meterorological Society Congress 2012

Suzanne Chen of the Volpe Center's Aircraft Wakes and Weather Division will present a paper entitled "Uncertainty Study of the Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System (MDCRS) Data." The FAA is sponsored the work, with co-authorship from other members of the Division, Stephen Mackey, Melanie Soares and Frank Wang, as well as with co-authorship from NASA Langley Research Center.

For conference information link to >>CMOS/AMS Congress 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Beyond Scheduling: Transit Scheduling and Operations IT: Lessons Learned

The webinar is brought to you by the ITS Professional Capacity Building Program (ITS PCB) at the U.S. Department of Transportation's (US DOT) ITS Joint Program Office, Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). Terry Regan of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe Center will host the webinar.

As IT developments have advanced rapidly in the last 20 years, so have the capabilities of transit properties, particularly the use of automated scheduling tools. IT-based systems for minimizing vehicle counts and cutting operator runs are now commonplace in the industry. The next steps in this evolution are modules which can be deployed to expand from purely service planning and scheduling functions to other transit departments, chiefly operations. This webinar explores issues associated with the procurement and assimilation of large-scale IT projects at five transit agencies in the Pacific Northwest; King County Transit in Seattle will be the featured transit property during this webinar. Both the risks and payoffs are substantial in large-scale IT projects. A common IT platform across departments has benefits, such as increasing data integrity and reducing development costs. Some of the challenges are substantial customization and complicated data integration. However, the endgame for many transit agencies today is an integrated IT platform for scheduling, operations, payroll, maintenance, and employee performance and discipline. The goal of this webinar is to provide a roadmap highlighting the risks and benefits of large-scale technical projects and the associated business culture transformations.

Webinar presenters are Ray Burgess, King County Metro Transit; Kranthi Balaram, Chicago Transit Authority; and Mark Patzloff, Chicago Transit Authority.

Link here for more information or to register: http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/t3/s120531_largescale.asp

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Straight from the Source

Risk-Based Security and Enhanced Behavior Detection/Analysis

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by George N. Naccara, Federal Security Director at Logan International Airport Transportation Security Administration U.S. Department of Homeland Security

An emerging concept which will improve security and the travel experience
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

2012 Federal Railroad Administration Research and Development Research Review

National Academy of Sciences
Keck Center
Washington, DC

Dr. Stephen Popkin, Director of the Volpe Center's Human Factors Research and System Applications Technical Center, will participate as a discussant on a panel focused on railroad fatigue measurement, modeling and management with an emphasis on the need for data on work and sleep (diary data) and fatigue model outputs to make sense of that type of data.

Dr. Gina Melnik and Mr. Matthew Isaacs of the Volpe Center's Surface Transportation Human Factors Division will participate in a human factors panel discussion titled "Human Systems Integration and Cab Technology Integration Lab (CTIL)," led by Mr. Michael Jones of the FRA. Dr. Joyce Ranney, will take part in a panel on safety culture and will present results of research on Clear Signal for Action (CSA), a risk-based safety management system. Robert Dorer, Director of the Infrastructure Systems and Engineering Center, Michael Coltman, Chief of the Volpe Center's Structures and Dynamics Division and technical staff members Michael Carolan, David Jeong, Brian Marquis and David Damm-Luhr will also participate in the review.

For conference information link to >>>http://www.fra.dot.gov/rpd/downloads/TRB2012_Draft%20Agenda_FINAL.pdf

Wednesday, May 21-23, 2012

Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC): Public Meeting

Hilton Alexandria Old Town
Alexandria, Virginia

Elizabeth Turner of the Volpe Center's System Measurement and Analysis Division will support the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) at the MCSAC Public Meeting. During this meeting, the group will consider ideas and concepts to address certain open recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

For meeting information link to >>> https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/05/07/2012-10932/motor-carrier-safety-advisory-committee-mcsac-public-meeting

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The 17th ITS Massachusetts Annual Meeting and Conference

State Transportation Building; 10 Park Plaza
Boston, Massachusetts

This Volpe Center will be exhibiting at this year's conference on "Improving ITS Operations Locally and Regionally." Stop by our booth and talk with two of the Volpe Center's technical staff members working on ITS programs: Paul Minnice and Mikio Yanagisawa

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Boston Society of Civil Engineers Annual Bertram Berger Seminar

Mr. Terry Sheehan of the Volpe Center's Security and Emergency Management Division will participate as a speaker at this event focused on The Wrath of Mother Nature: Disaster Response and Mitigation. Mr. Sheehan will be discussing his award winning response activities for Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike and Irene, and the New England Floods of 2010. The seminar will also feature Secretary/CEO of MassDOT Richard Davey as the keynote speaker. Mr. Sheehan is the Region 1 & 2 Regional Emergency Transportation Representative (RETREP) and Emergency Support Function One-Transportation (ESF-1) lead for the northeast as stipulated in the National Response Framework.

For conference information link to >>>Boston Society of Civil Engineers Annual Bertram Berger Seminar

April 24-26, 2012

Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) 2012 World Congress

Dr. Scott Stevens and Dr. Qi Van Eikema Hommes of the Volpe Center's Advanced Vehicle Technology Division will present research results from their published technical papers at the SAE 2012 World Congress in Detroit, MI. Dr. Stevens' paper is titled "The Relationship between Driver Acceptance and System Effectiveness in Car-Based Collision Warning Systems: Evidence of an Overreliance Effect in Older Drivers?" Dr. Hommes' paper is titled "Assessment of the ISO 26262 Standard on Road Vehicles—Functional Safety."

For conference information link to >> SAE 2012 World Congress

April 24-26, 2012

Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference

Volpe Center staff members Kevin Clark and Jonathan Lee of the Volpe Center's Aircraft Wakes and Weather Division and Stephen Creaghan, Chief of the Volpe Center Aviation Systems Engineering will participate. Mr. Clark will Co-Chair "Future Communications" on System Wide Integration Management (SWIM) 1 Session at ICNS and participate in the Unmanned Aircraft systems (UAS) National Airspace System (NAS) integration discussion panel during a UAS session. Dr. Lee will chair a session on Performance Based Operations, a key concept for the NextGen.

For conference information link to >>Integrated CNS Conference

April 23-25, 2012

NEXTGEN AHEAD
Air Transportation Modernization Conference

Steven Lang, Director of the Volpe Center's Air Traffic Systems and Operations Center will participate in the NEXTGEN AHEAD conference.

For conference information link to >>NEXTGEN AHEAD

April 20-12, 2012

7th Annual Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Drug and Alcohol Program National Conference

In support of the FTA, Volpe Center staff member Eve Rutyna of the Surface Transportation Human Factors Division is organizing the 7th Annual FTA Drug and Alcohol Program National Conference. This conference will provide participants with knowledge of Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs (49 CFR Part 40) and Prevention of Alcohol Misuse and Prohibited Drug Use in Transit Operators (49 CFR Part 655). Ms. Rutyna will present at a session on the FTA Drug and Alcohol Management Information System reporting. Volpe Center staff member Michael Redington will present on How to Save Money on your Drug and Alcohol Program and Jeopardy: How Well Do You Know the FTA Drug and Alcohol Program? Volpe Center staff member Edward Condewill present a session on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Testing of Breath Alcohol Measuring Devices and the Ensuing Legal Challenges at this Conference.

Link to more information >> FTA Drug and Alcohol Program National Conference

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Straight from the Source

Innovating with Excess Capacity to Achieve Speed and Scale

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Robin Chase, Chase is founder and CEO of Buzzcar and is also founder and former CEO of Zipcar and GoLoco.

An overlooked resource in hard times? Excess capacity. If you look carefully it is everywhere and is a source for low-cost innovation - - even in the transport sector.
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March 29, 2012

Straight from the Source

Innovations for a better tomorrow: How states and U.S. DOT collaborate to accelerate and embrace change

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Kirk T. Steudle, P.E., Director of the Michigan Department of Transportation and 2011-2012 President of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

Weaving silos into tapestry:
Cross-modal safety through the U.S. DOT Safety Council

Stephen M. Popkin, Ph.D.
Director of the Center of Human Factors Research and System Applications at the Volpe Center

March 20-22 2012

Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Northeast Spring Regional Meeting

The 2012 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) Northeast regional meeting will be held March 20-22 at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Link to more information http://www.flcnortheast.org/meeting/2012/

March 5-6, 2012

Annual Conference of the American Society of Public Administration

Suzanne Sloan of the Volpe Center's Technology Innovation and Policy Division is giving a presentation on the process and challenges associated with developing governance models for connected vehicle technology adoption at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Public Administrators (ASPA) in Las Vegas, NV.

For conference information link to: >>Annual Conference of the American Society of Public Administration

February 28-29, 2012

WakeNet3-Europe 4th Major and Final Workshop – Wake Turbulence in Current Operations and Beyond

Steve Lang, Director of the Volpe Center's Air Traffic Systems and Operations Center, and Paul Slaboch of the Volpe Center's Aircraft Wakes and Weather Division will participate in the workshop. Mr. Slaboch will present a brief on jet blast, entitled "An Operational Model for Jet Blast Separation Standard." WakeNet3-Europe promotes a multidisciplinary exchange between scientific and operational specialists in the field of wake turbulence.

Link to more information >>WakeNet3 Europe

February 28, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

Aiming High with Alternative Jet Fuels

Kristin C. Lewis, Ph.D.
Environmental Biologist
Environmental and Energy Systems Technical Center at the Volpe Center

February 16, 2012

Straight from the Source

Trade in tasks vs trade in products: The demise of the "made in label" – policy and security implications

Join us in person or via webinar for a talk by Stephen M. Carmel, Senior Vice President Maersk Line, Limited
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February 14, 2012

Transportation Trajectories

Cyber Security in Transportation: Hype or Armageddon?

Michael Dinning
Director of the Transportation Logistics and Security Technical Center at the Volpe Center

February 9, 2012

Straight from the Source

Congestion in Rapidly Growing Cities: Lessons from Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai

Join us for a talk by Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, the Derek C. Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at Harvard University, where he holds a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Design and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He teaches courses in economics, infrastructure and transportation policy in both schools. His research interests are in transportation, infrastructure, and economic development. >>Learn More about Straight from the Source