Alan M Voorhees Oral History Initiative
The Alan M Voorhees Transportation Library and Oral History Initiative is an effort to preserve the contributions and stories of renowned transportation professionals from New Jersey and throughout the United States. This project has three significant parts.
As part of this effort, we record, edit, and distribute oral history interviews with significant contributors to New Jersey and United States transportation planning. The goal of the project is to make these materials available in perpetuity for the research community and interested public.
To date, we have interviewed and documented the careers of several prominent transportation professionals. Links to videos and transcripts are available below.
Thomas B. Deen
A leader and innovator in the field of transportation, Tom Deen has had a distinguished professional career highlighted by his commitment to excellence and pursuit of solutions to transportation problems. In 1956 he became the assistant city traffic engineer for...
Alan E. Pisarski
For the last 35 years Mr. Pisarski has served as an independent writer, analyst and consultant in areas related to travel behavior, transport policy, and data development. A keystone of these activities has been the recurring nature in which his studies have been...
Martin Robins
Martin Robins has nearly 40 years’ experience in the field of transportation planning and policy. He served as director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University and in 1998 founded its predecessor organization, the Voorhees Transportation...
Martin Wachs
Martin Wachs is Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering and of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directed the Institute of Transportation Studies. He earlier spent 25 years at UCLA, where he was...
Louis Gambaccini
On three separate occasions Lou Gambaccini retired from the transit industry only to be called back for his expertise. In a career spanning four decades, he headed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT and SEPTA. In fact, while with the New Jersey...