John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Type: Research and Development Agencies (Sub-organization) Parent organization: U.S. Department of Transportation Top organization: Employees: 400 Executive: Director Budget: $100M (FY 2024, estimated based on recent project funding) Address: 220 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA Website: https://www.volpe.dot.gov/ Creation Legislation: Established by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1970 Wikipedia: John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

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Mission The Volpe Center advances transportation innovation for the public good, assisting the transportation community in addressing its most challenging problems through research, development, and deployment of innovative solutions. It promotes safety, security, mobility, environmental sustainability, and efficiency in transportation systems.

Services Human factors research; Systems engineering; Data analysis and visualization; Environmental assessment; Policy analysis; Safety and security solutions

Regulations

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The Volpe Center

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The future Volpe Center in summer 2023 before its opening.

The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (colloquially, the Volpe Center) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a center of transportation and logistics expertise in the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT).

The center's work includes projects that cut across traditional transportation modes and technical disciplines, including the

• Federal Aviation Administration's Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS)
• Safety Performance Analysis System (SPAS)
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's SafeStat Online

The Center helps federal, state, and local governments, industry, and academia in various areas, including human factors research, system design, implementation and assessment, global tracking, strategic investment and resource allocation, environmental preservation, and organizational effectiveness.

Volpe differs from most federal organizations in that it receives no direct appropriation from Congress. Instead, its roughly $200 million annual budget is funded by fees for its work.

The center is named for John Volpe, a former Massachusetts governor and U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Location

Volpe is located on the campus of NASA's former Electronics Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston, across the street from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and next to the Kendall/MIT MBTA Red Line subway stop.

Redevelopment

In January 2017, MIT signed an agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to redevelop the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, with the state aim of turning the 14-acre parcel into a more vibrant mixed-use site.

In October 2017, the Cambridge City Council approved MIT’s rezoning petition for the site and a team of architects and landscape planners have been working to imagine a new home for the Volpe Center.

See also

• Aircraft Situation Display to Industry

External links

• Template:Official site