Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center

Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center

The Induced Travel Calculator

The Induced Travel Calculator estimates the increase in vehicle travel resulting from expanded road capacity. When new roads or lanes reduce congestion, they often lead to more travel and can quickly return congestion to previous levels. This phenomenon, known as induced travel, also affects travel patterns and locations where people live and work. The Calculator uses historical data and “elasticities of travel” to predict the increase in vehicle-miles of travel and associated carbon emissions. It can also evaluate the realism of existing travel forecasts. Developed by Rutgers University’s VTC, these tools include calculators for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Minnesota, with additional models under development.

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NJTIP @ Rutgers Provides Mobility Orientation to IHC Grantees

NJTIP @ Rutgers received grant funding in 2024 to provide group travel instruction to a select number of current and past Inclusive Healthy Community (IHC) program grantees. The IHC is an initiative of the Division of Disability Services (DDS), New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) that is focused on working with the disability community to build a healthier, more inclusive New Jersey. Since spring 2024, NJTIP has provided 10 in-person and virtual classroom trainings for IHC grantees statewide, reaching approximately 150 individuals.

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Traffic Speeds Decrease When Bike Lane Is Present

VTC researcher Hannah Younes, together with Robert Noland, Wenwen Zhang, and Leigh Ann Von Hagen,  conducting a study at a high-traffic intersection in a Jersey Shore town have found that the installation of a bike lane along the road approaching the convergence reduced driving speeds.

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Cultivating Community, Commerce, and Transit Oriented Development

The New Jersey TOD Symposium: Cultivating Community, Commerce, and Transit Oriented Development offered a day of collaboration and innovation focused on transit friendly planning and transit oriented development.

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Leigh Ann Von Hagen Named Sustainability Hero

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Solving problems. Sharing knowledge. Informing decisions.

The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) is a national leader in the research and development of innovative transportation policy. Located within the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, VTC has the full array of resources from a major research university on transportation issues of regional and national significance.  VTC includes the National Transit Institute, which was created by Congress in 1992 to design and deliver training and education programs for the U.S. transit industry.

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Publications & Reports

The Voorhees Transportation Center makes its research available to the public. Explore our database of Reports, Publications, and Plans that we have developed for projects on a variety of topics.

 

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Projects

At any given time, we are working on 30+ active projects throughout the state and country. These projects include reports and plans developed throughout the course of the project. We make as many of these deliverables available as resources to the transportation community. 

 

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Projects

At any given time, we are working on 30+ active projects throughout the state and country. These projects include reports and plans developed throughout the course of the project. We make as many of these deliverables available as resources to the transportation community. 

 

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News & Updates

VTC at TRB 2025!

Nov 6, 2024

Join us at TRB! The 2025 TRB Annual Meeting will be held January 5-9, 2025 at the Walter E. Washington Convention...

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VTC at ACSP2024

Nov 5, 2024

The annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) is set to take place in Seattle,...

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