We use practical data and AI-driven solutions to maximize the potential of transportation systems. Our researchers work at the cutting edge to discover how data and AI can transform the way we move people and goods in an increasingly fast-paced and connected world. Data and AI have enormous potential for making transportation safer, more reliable, and more cost-efficient.
Transportation
Engineering and research for next-gen transportation
Engineering Safer, More Efficient Movement
A new era of safety, efficiency, and mobility requires unique expertise in specialized technologies to address paradigm shifts in how we travel and move goods. See how we help government agencies research and develop areas like connected and automated vehicles and infrastructure and intelligent transportation systems operations and management using cutting-edge approaches such as simulation, AI, data analysis, and more.
Data and AI
Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation
We create virtual worlds in which experts can evaluate new approaches to operating our transportation system. Using advanced visualization methods, our researchers focus on ways to resolve freeway bottlenecks, analyze travel time reliability, develop guidance for traffic simulation, and improve the modeling and simulation techniques vital to the introduction of connected and automated vehicles.
Transportation Safety
Our safety professionals work with passion and expertise to help federal, state, and local agencies achieve their vision of safe travel for all users of our nation's roadways. Analyses, evaluations, guidance, plans, knowledge transfer and outreach activities help deliver solutions our customers champion to move people and goods safely.
Transportation Operations
We leverage extensive engineering and operations expertise and experience to help public agencies plan and operate transportation systems safely and efficiently. Our support to federal, state, and local agencies advances strategies that help manage congestion, improve reliability, maximize the efficient movement of freight, and enhance the mobility of all travelers.
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Connected & Automated Transportation Technologies
We design, test, and validate transportation solutions that deliver on the promise of advanced mobility: saving lives, reducing congestion, and improving economic outcomes across the Nation. As a transportation leader, we develop the connected and automated technologies and standards for the transportation systems of tomorrow.
Transportation Asset Management
We facilitate the accessibility of critical data so that state transportation agencies can manage the valuable assets that make up our transportation system. Our work makes relevant, objective, and credible information readily available to drive solid investment decisions based on available resources, current system conditions, maintenance activity and accurate estimates of future maintenance needs.
Connectivity
We develop, test, and validate the transportation connectivity that has the potential to revolutionize the national transportation system in terms of safety, efficiency, and mobility. Our work enables federal, state, and local agencies to deploy connected vehicle and infrastructure technologies that the automotive industry can use to unlock life-saving applications and get the Nation on the move.
CDA
Our advanced research engineers are building and testing the automation technologies that will drive the transportation systems of tomorrow. Cooperative driving automation (CDA) is capable of realizing unprecedented safety and efficiency gains on our Nation’s roads. We develop the essential tools and resources that enable industry and government to integrate partially and fully automated vehicle technology into the transportation system to make the driving experience safer and more reliable for all.
Freight
We develop modernization solutions to help transportation agencies and commercial operators move goods safely and efficiently across and between modes.
Research Facility Management
We operate some of the most advanced transportation lab facilities in the United States. Our team build and continues to manage the Federal Highway Administration's Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory, conducting state-of-the-art research in connectivity, automation, simulation and analysis, and transportation operations and management.
