NTIP@Rutgers is offering a free seminar to teach professionals, volunteers and community members who work with older adults and people with...
Year: 2015
2015 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit
The 2015 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit brought together over 250 planners, engineers, advocates, and policy-makers from throughout the state to...
Donald Shoup to speak at VTC Distinguished Lecture
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy present The Alan M. Voorhees...
Transportation Essential for Veterans with Disability
MyCentralJersey.com recently featured VTC's Stephanie DiPetrillo and Andrea Lubin's research regarding the role of transportation in the successful...
According to Bloustein Study, Bloomfield Avenue needs to go on a “Road Diet”
The Bloomfield Avenue Corridor in Verona, Montclair, Glen Ridge and Bloomfield needs to go on a diet in order to be safer. This is based on one of...
VTC Welcomes New Advisory Board Chair
VTC announced that Robert Skinner, Jr., will serve as the Chair of the VTC Advisory Board. He replaces Mortimer Downey, III, who is stepping down,...
Paul Danny Yoder is the 2015 Recipent of the Mortensen/Voorhees Award!
Paul Danny Yoder is the 2015 recipient of the Mortensen/Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation Studies. Danny demonstrated academic...
VTC’s Mike Smart writes about why America can’t have high speed trains
Imagine being able to travel from New York to Los Angeles without having to step on a plane, yet be able to do so in a fraction of the time it would...
VTC Prof Bob Noland featured in Civil Society Online!
More than 130,000 people die in road accidents in India every year — the highest in the world. Speeding, drunk driving and not using helmets and...
The Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” Program
The Bayonne Bridge "Raise the Roadway" Program By Joann Papageorgis, Program Director The Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Program Tuesday,...
Recent Publications
Comparing injuries from e-scooters, e-bikes, and bicycles in the United States
There is a growing perception that e-scooters are more dangerous than bicycles and e-bikes, with towns implementing measures to ban their usage. Yet, there is not much evidence from large scale surveys to substantiate this claim. Nearly 14,000 micromobility injuries...
Equal charging for all: Are there income-based disparities in public charging stations?
We compare charging station accessibility for different income groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using a microsimulation model, we estimate charging station accessibility under varying battery range scenarios, assuming different income groups have vehicles with...
New Jersey Micromobility Guide (2025)
The New Jersey Micromobility Guide serves as a resource for micromobility users across the state, collecting and summarizing the laws and safety best practices that can make riders safer. Micromobility, which includes e-bikes, e-scooters, and other low-speed devices,...
The deal breaker theory of cycling: A new approach to understanding bike behavior
Most locations across the world have a large un-tapped pool of people who do not bike at all and an even larger pool who do not bike for transportation. To increase cycling, we must better understand this group and the reasons they do not ride. I propose a new theory...