Visual Risk Technologies, Inc. is a vibrant, growing organization focused on providing
its customers with exceptional value and its employees with exciting opportunities
to apply their skills and learn new ones.
Keep current with contract wins and other exciting news listed below.
- Visual Risk is key partner on MacroSys award to support FHWA Freight Office
- The MacroSys team, including Visual Risk, has been awarded a contract to provide "Technical Support for the Advancement of Freight Management and Operations" for the Federal Highway Administration. Visual Risk will provide freight, modeling, visualization, geographic information technology, and other expertise to the Macrosys team and FHWA. Contact Mark Lepofsky in our DC office for more information.
- Visual Risk wins two TRB Hazardous Materials Transportation Research Contracts
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Visual Risk has been awarded two prime contracts
by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies to study hazmat transportation
research and risk assessment. Both of these projects are under the Hazardous Materials
Cooperative Research Program.
- HM-10: Current Hazardous Materials Transportation Research and Future Needs
- A key output from the effort will be a prioritized list of hazardous materials transportation research projects that will address the identified needs, taking into account research that is already planned or underway.
- HM-12: Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Assessment: State of the Practice
- This project will assess and document the current state of the practice in hazmat transportation risk assessment—in both the public and private sectors—and identify areas where enhancements in the available data, tools, methodologies, and approaches would be beneficial.
- Secretary LaHood announces continued support for RCRMS
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On November 19, 2010, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced continued
grant funding and support for the Rail Corridor Risk Management System (RCRMS),
describing the System as “a key enabling technology for the [Rail] industry in accomplishing
the objectives of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008.”
For the complete announcement: http://www.fra.dot.gov/Pages/press-releases/228.shtml