The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) students Golda Speyer and Kelly Glenn are the recipients of 2016 APTF Scholarships. This marks the sixth straight year at least one Bloustein student has been awarded APTF scholarships; overall, eight Bloustein students have received scholarships in that time. All member organizations of […]
Improving Pathways to Transit for Persons with Disabilities Stephanie DiPetrillo, Andrea Lubin, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Carla Salehian, Stephen C. Gibson, Kristine M. Williams, and Theodore Trent Green, 116 pages, August 2016. Persons with disabilities can achieve a greater degree of freedom when they have full access to a variety of transit modes, but this can only […]
Will people pay for better infrastructure after a natural disaster? San Jose, CA – March 1, 2016 – When Superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast in October of 2012, a seemingly perfect test case occurred of a population that had seen first-hand what natural disasters could do to a region. Researchers at the Mineta National Transit Research […]
VTC at TRB January 10-14, 2016 Please join VTC faculty and staff at the 2016 Transportation Research Board at the following sessions/workshops/events: VTC Author(s) Description Event # Date Location Time Michael Smart, Nicholas Klein Effect of Car Ownership and Transit Access on Employment and Income: Fourteen Years of Evidence from Panel Study of Income […]
MyCentralJersey.com recently featured VTC’s Stephanie DiPetrillo and Andrea Lubin’s research regarding the role of transportation in the successful reintegration of returning military veterans with disability. The research, completed in fall 2014, found that veterans with disabilities living in transit-oriented developments — mixed-use residential and commercial land uses integrally tied to transit — seem to be […]
Smart, Michael. 2015. “A nationwide look at the immigrant neighborhood effect on travel mode choice.” Transportation. 42(1): 189-209. Abstract Immigrants to the United States walk, bicycle, and use transit and carpools more than U.S.-born residents do. These differences persist over time and across income groups. The differences appear strongest when immigrants reside in immigrant neighborhoods […]
Smart, Michael J. 2014. “A volatile relationship: The effect of changing gasoline prices on public support for mass transit.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 61: 178-185. Abstract The determinants of public opinion toward public transit is a little-researched topic, though a better understanding of what makes consumers willing to support transit may reveal […]
Blumenberg, Evelyn, and Smart, Michael. 2014. “Brother can you Spare a Ride? Carpooling in Immigrant Neighbourhoods.” Urban Studies. 51(9): 1871-1890. Abstract Immigrants are more likely to travel by carpool than the US-born. Strong ethnic ties within immigrant communities may contribute to immigrants’ propensity to carpool, enabling residents to find carpool partners more easily and increasing […]
Name: Ryan A.G. Whytlaw Title: Senior Research Specialist Room: 445 Phone: 848-932-2845 Email: rwhytlaw@ejb.rutgers.edu Ryan Whytlaw is a Senior Research Specialist with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Mr. Whytlaw also provides research support to the Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), a […]
Smart, Michael, and Klein, Nicholas J. 2013. “Neighborhoods of affinity: social forces and travel in gay and lesbian neighborhoods.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 79(22): 110-124. Abstract Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners have traditionally focused on how the physical characteristics of neighborhoods influence people’s activity and travel-patterns, overlooking an equally important factor: the […]
