“This bill marks a crucial step in advancing awareness of New Jersey’s Safe Passing Law and, in particular, ensuring drivers fully understand their responsibility to protect pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vulnerable road users when they’re behind the wheel,” said Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP,PP, Executive Director, Voorhees Transportation Center.
More than 130,000 people die in road accidents in India every year — the highest in the world. Speeding, drunk driving and not using helmets and...
The report provides a comprehensive summary of the bicycle environment at the municipal level throughout the state, using extensive data from 60 municipalities as a baseline.
This report is intended to extend and update the information provided in the 2010 Pedestrian Safety Tracking Report. Data presented in this report...
As tax relief and aid diminish each year while transportation costs rise, New Jersey school districts are under increasing pressure to consolidate,...
Research on the state of the school crossing guard training and working conditions in New Jersey led to the development of current best practices in...
School districts throughout New Jersey are forced to make budget cuts, and transportation particularly courtesy busing or non state-mandated busing,...
Due to the significant number of bicyclist fatalities and injuries that occur as a result of accidents with motorists, bicyclists in many states,...
School policies play an important role in determining how students get to and from school each day. However, information on the consistency and...
This memorandum contains a brief analysis of the pedestrian crashes pre- and post-improvement along three corridors in New Jersey: downtown Newark...
Background Increasing evidence positively links greenspace and physical activity (PA). However, most studies use measures of greenspace, such as satellite-based vegetation indices around the residence, which fail to capture ground-level views and day-to-day dynamic...
Induced travel elasticities associated with new road capacity are typically estimated for roads of higher functional classifications, such as interstate freeways and principal arterials. These are estimated as “own” elasticities, that is an increase in lane kilometers...
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...
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...