Although a number of recent studies have addressed walking by older adults, many have aggregated recreational and transportation walking into overall physical activity, whereas many others have exclusively focused on recreational walking.
Charles Brown
Exploration of the effect of violent crime on recreational and transportation walking by path and structural equation models
To examine how violent crime affects people’s recreational and transportation walking duration in daytime and after dark on a typical day.
What do Planning Professionals, Police and Pedestrians in General Think about Distracted Driving and Walking?
Issues that relate to distracted driving and walking are discussed by presenting results from a survey of planning professionals, police officers, and pedestrians in New Jersey.
Bicycling to Rail Stations in NJ: 2013 Benchmarking Report
An effort to benchmark the current state of travel by a unique set of travelers, transit riders who travel to stations by bicycle.
Costs and Benefits of a Road Diet for Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, NJ
The analysis presented here is of a candidate road diet conversion site, Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, an oversized arterial corridor accessing the center of the city.
The Severity of Pedestrian Crashes: An Analysis Using Google Street View Imagery
Data derived from visual inspection of Google Street View imagery associated with a variety of pedestrian and road infrastructure features are analyzed with a database of pedestrian casualties.
The Economic Impacts of Active Transportation in NJ (2013)
The primary objective of this study was to estimate the statewide economic impacts of active transportation in New Jersey in one year.
How Do People Value Different Types of Pedestrians and Bicycle Infrastructure? (2013)
A survey of New Jersey residents specifically focused on people’s valuation of different types of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and the reasons for their valuation in two large regions of the state.
Recent Publications
Comparing injuries from e-scooters, e-bikes, and bicycles in the United States
There is a growing perception that e-scooters are more dangerous than bicycles and e-bikes, with towns implementing measures to ban their usage. Yet, there is not much evidence from large scale surveys to substantiate this claim. Nearly 14,000 micromobility injuries...
Equal charging for all: Are there income-based disparities in public charging stations?
We compare charging station accessibility for different income groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using a microsimulation model, we estimate charging station accessibility under varying battery range scenarios, assuming different income groups have vehicles with...
New Jersey Micromobility Guide (2025)
The New Jersey Micromobility Guide serves as a resource for micromobility users across the state, collecting and summarizing the laws and safety best practices that can make riders safer. Micromobility, which includes e-bikes, e-scooters, and other low-speed devices,...
The deal breaker theory of cycling: A new approach to understanding bike behavior
Most locations across the world have a large un-tapped pool of people who do not bike at all and an even larger pool who do not bike for transportation. To increase cycling, we must better understand this group and the reasons they do not ride. I propose a new theory...