School policies play an important role in determining how students get to and from school each day. However, information on the consistency and...
Active Transportation
Pedestrian Safe Corridors Memorandum (2011)
This memorandum contains a brief analysis of the pedestrian crashes pre- and post-improvement along three corridors in New Jersey: downtown Newark...
Bicycle Activity and Attitudes Survey Summary report (2011)
The Bicycle Activity and Attitudes Survey was a random-digit dialing anonymous telephone survey of households in the state of New Jersey, conducted...
An Analysis of Pedestrian Safety in NJ in 2010 (2011)
The primary purpose of this report is to provide a baseline for tracking pedestrian crashes over time. In its current form, the report provides...
Safe Routes to NJ’s Disadvantaged Urban Schools
This study details the NJ Department of Transportation’s Urban Demonstration Program to understand why Safe Routes to School programs do not take...
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study Kaan Ozbay, Ph.D., Bekir Barin, Ph.D., Hong Yang, Ranjit Walia and Robert Williams. 113 pages. February 2010....
NJ Pedestrian Behavior Study (2009)
The primary purpose of this report is to document basic statistics from the NJ Statewide Pedestrian Survey conducted in November 2009. The survey...
Pedestrian Lighting in New Jersey: A Means to Improve Pedestrian Safety (2007)
This report recommends that the issue of pedestrian lighting be made apparent to state, county, and municipal leaders and that they be given the...
Safe Routes to School Open House Report
A report on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Open Houses conducted in New Jersey during October and November 2006 by the New Jersey Department of...
Constructing, Maintaining and Financing Sidewalks in New Jersey (2006)
Sidewalks are a complicated issue due to multiple jurisdictions (local, county, and state), ambiguous responsibility for construction,...
Recent Publications
Measuring Induced Travel Elasticities associated with Local Roads from Trip Generation
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...
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,...