Please join us at the TRB 98th Annual Meeting! VTC faculty, staff, and students will participate in the following events, sessions, and workshops. Sunday, January 13, 2019 Robert Noland Taking Stock of Transportation Life-Cycle Assessment Workshop | AICP Certification Session 1063, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Convention Center, 146A The goal of this workshop is to discuss […]
It is with great sadness that the Bloustein School announces the passing of Paul J. Larrousse, Faculty Fellow and Director of the National Transit Institute, who passed away after a short illness on Wednesday, November 14. “We grieve not only at the passing of a widely respected colleague, teacher, and leader but also for the […]
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Ph.D. candidate Sicheng Wang is the recipient of 2018 APTF Scholarship. This marks the eighth straight year at least one Bloustein student has been awarded APTF scholarships; overall, 11 Bloustein students have received scholarships during that time. All member organizations of the American Public […]
Innovations in Public Engagement is a public outreach program developed by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) — which oversees planning for the 13-county region in northern and central New Jersey — and POET (Public Outreach and Engagement Team) at the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University. After two years researching outreach activities by planning organizations […]
Mary Buchanan is the 2018 recipient of the Mortensen-Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation Studies. Mary will be joining the research team of TransitCenter, a foundation focused on improving public transit in the U.S. through policy and advocacy. During her MCRP studies at the Bloustein School, she worked at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, […]
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy present The Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 5:00 p.m. Special Events Forum, Civic Square Building DANIEL SPERLING Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering University of California, Davis Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicles […]
Ph.D. Candidate for the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Sicheng Wang received an American Planning Association (APA) Transportation Planning Small Grant which is awarded toward support for programs or studies, social activities, new initiatives, funding speakers, or other innovative opportunities. Grants are typically a maximum of $500 and can be awarded to an […]
Please join VTC faculty, staff, and students at the following 97th TRB Annual Meeting sessions, workshops, and events. Sunday, January 7 Charles Brown, co-presiding Equity Issues in Pedestrian Safety and Accessibility Workshop 1:30PM-4:30PM Monday, January 8 Michael Smart and Nicholas Klein Disentangling the Role of Cars and Transit in Employment and Earnings 8:00 […]
VTC Executive Director Jon Carnegie and VTC Director Emeritus Martin Robins were both appointed by Governor-Elect Philip Murphy to join his Transition 2018 Team. Jon was appointed to the Transportation Committee and Martin will Co-Chair the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. As Murphy stated in a recent press announcement about Transition 2018, “New Jersey needs an […]
On Monday October 30, 2017, VTC’s Leigh Ann Von Hagen and Sean Meehan, together with partners from the Plainfield Public School District and the City of Plainfield, received a 2017 NJ APA Planning Excellence Award for the state’s first district-wide school travel plan. The plan resulted from the fall 2016 graduate studio where students, working […]
