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Lunchtime Tech Talk! Goodluck Point Beneficial Use of Dredged Material via Nearshore Placement and Shark River Sediment Transport Model
Join the NJDOT Bureau of Research and the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center for an upcoming Lunchtime Tech Talk! – a webinar featuring Maritime Transportation Research undertaken by Rutgers research professors.
Come Work with Us!
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey seeks qualified candidates to fill two project coordinator positions.
Jon Carnegie joins EJB Talks
Jon Carnegie, Executive Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at the Bloustein School, joined Stuart Shapiro on EJB Talks this week.
NTI’s Billy Terry Discusses Training that Builds Communities on Transit Unplugged Podcast
Earlier this month, Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute, talked with Paul Comfort of the Transit Unplugged podcast. Billy explains NTI’s role as the training arm of the transit industry, primarily focused on the administrative side including procurement, DBE (disadvantaged business enterprise), financial management, and more.
TRB Webinar: Transportation in an Aging Society—The Future is Now
February 23, 2022
Virtual
Rutgers Students Needed to Conduct Bus Rider Surveys for NJ TRANSIT
VTC is seeking to hire Rutgers University students to conduct onboard ridership surveys February through May 2022.
Bloustein doctoral students awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships
Bloustein doctoral students Ellen O. White and Wei San Loh have are the recipients of Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships for the...
The Benefits of Not Commuting to Work
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major changes in how people work and travel. Research by Robert Noland and Wenwen Zhang suggests that some of these changes are likely to endure.
Looking Forward: Issues and Opportunities that will Shape the Future of the Port Authority Region
December 7, 2021
Florio Forum, Bloustein School
Recent Publications
Identifying Current and Future Training Needs of the Public Transportation Industry
Abstract The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) commissioned the National Transit Institute to conduct a study to assess and codify the public transportation industry’s training practices, interests, and priorities and determine training needs. This report...
Understanding How Changes in Mobility Affect the Spread of Coronavirus
Abstract In an effort to understand how changes in mobility are associated with the spread of the coronavirus, distinguished professor Robert Noland used mobility data from Google correlated with estimates of the effective reproduction rate, a measure of viral...
Bikeshare Usage Change in New York City Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract Bikeshare use in New York City dropped substantially during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but by summer of 2020 had largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels. The patterns of usage, however, have changed. In “Changes in the Pattern of Bikeshare...
Research: Variation in ride-hailing trips in Chengdu, China
Noland, R.B, Wang, S, (2021). Variation in ride-hailing trips in Chengdu, China. Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920920307823?via%3Dihub Abstract A new paper by Bloustein School doctoral candidate Sicheng Wang and Distinguished...