The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

A former NASA laboratory, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) established the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S. DOT Volpe Center) in 1970 to bring technical capability and a future-oriented outlook to pressing national transportation issues. Renamed in 1990 in honor of the second U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Governor of Massachusetts John A. Volpe, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center has proudly and professionally served 19 Secretaries of Transportation, their deputies and assistant secretaries, and more than 300 modal administrators. Today, the U.S. DOT Volpe Center serves as a federal resource positioned to provide world-renowned, multidisciplinary, multimodal transportation expertise on behalf of U.S. DOT’s operating administrations, the Office of the Secretary, and other federal agencies, state and local governments, academia, and industry.