Smart, Michael. 2018. Disentangling the role of cars and transit in employment and labor earnings. Transportation. 1-35. In this article, Professor Smart and Nicholas Klein (Bloustein PhD, 2014) find that having a car helps Americans find jobs, keep those jobs over time, and move up the economic ladder. Very good transit service can provide the same […]
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 […]
Deka, Devajyoti. (2018). “Are millennials moving to more urbanized and transit-oriented counties?“Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11(1), pp. 443-461. ABSTRACT: Recent studies show that two distinct narratives have emerged about the millennials’ behavior, attitudes, and preferences regarding their choice of residence and transportation. According to the optimistic narrative, by living and traveling sustainably, millennials are planting […]
Deka, Devajyoti, Charles Brown, and James Sinclair. (2018). “Exploration of the effect of violent crime on recreational and transportation walking by path and structural equation models.” Health & Place, 52, 34-45. ABSTRACT: To examine how violent crime affects people’s recreational and transportation walking duration in daytime and after dark on a typical day, this study undertakes […]
Deka, Devajyoti. 2018. “Exploration of millennials’ perception of spending on cities, mass transit, and highways.” Journal of Transport Geography, 68, 224-232. ABSTRACT: In light of declining spending and increasing backlogs for cities and transportation agencies, this study compares the perception of millennials with the perception of older generations regarding public spending on cities, mass transit, […]
Deka, Devajyoti. 2017. [Book Review] “Bicycle justice and urban transformation: biking for all?” Transport Reviews, 38(2), 270-271. ABSTRACT: This is a review of the book “Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All?,” edited by Golub, et al. (2016), Routledge, New York (ISBN 978-1-138-95024-5). The review commends the editors and chapter authors for emphasizing the importance of equity […]
Smart, M. J., & Klein, N. J. 2017. “Remembrance of Cars and Buses Past.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. March: 1-13. Abstract Does living in a neighborhood with high-quality public transit influence travel behavior later in life, even if you move to a neighborhood with worse transit service? To test this, we construct residential […]
Noland, R.B. and Zhou, Y. 2017. “Has the Great Recession and its Aftermath Reduced Traffic Fatalities?” Accident Analysis and Prevention. 98: 130-138. Abstract An analysis of state-level data from 1984 to 2014 provides evidence on the relationship between economic recessions and US traffic fatalities. While there are large reductions associated with decreases in household median […]
Noland, R.B. 2017. “A rejoinder to the critique of ‘Costs and Benefits of a Road Diet Conversion‘.” Case Studies on Transport Policy. 5(1): 102-104. Abstract This is a rejoinder to a critique by Le Vine (2017) of an evaluation of the costs and benefits of a road diet (Noland et al., 2015), previously published in […]
Lubin, A., Alexander, K. and Harvey, E. 2017. “Achieving mobility access for older adults through group travel instruction.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2650: 18-24. Abstract It is anticipated that the number of older adults in the United States will reach 70 million before midcentury. Although the majority currently meet their […]
