Transportation Technology R&D Center

Argonne is developing technologies to help make advanced vehicles a reality. The laboratory's Transportation Technology R&D Center brings together scientists and engineers from many disciplines to find cost-effective solutions to the problems of transporting people and goods from one place to another -- issues like vehicle emissions and energy supply.

Argonne has been conducting transportation research for three decades. The laboratory's main sponsor for this research is the U.S. Department of Energy, but Argonne also works with U.S. manufacturers on a wide range of transportation technologies.

Argonne's transportation research focuses on three areas:

• Automobiles -- advancing toward an environmentally benign passenger car, from fuel production through recycling of obsolete vehicles.
• Heavy vehicles -- paving the way to safer, cleaner trucks, buses, and locomotives.
• Transportation systems -- improving traffic flow, safety, and security.

Within these three broad areas, specific programs concentrate on alternative-fuel vehicles, advanced batteries and fuel cells, emissions control, engine research, intelligent transportation systems, manufacturing technologies, materials, rail technologies, student vehicle competitions, supercomputing applications, technology assessments, transportation of hazardous materials, and vehicle recycling.

The Transportation Technology R&D Center also publishes a newsletter, TransForum, on the World Wide Web to help keep the interested public informed about the wide scope of Argonne transportation research.

For more information about Argonne's transportation research, visit the Web site of Argonne's Transportation Technology R&D Center.