June 16, 2021, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Virtual
News
Transport Innovation and COVID-19 Recovery: Designing Urban Environment
May 12, 2021, 9:15 – 10:30 AM
Virtual
Andrea Lubin speaks on Autonomous Vehicles at U.S. Access Board Forum
VTC Senior Researcher Andrea Lubin presented this week with her Rutgers CAIT Colleague Cecilia Feeley at the U.S. Access Board Forum on Inclusive Design of Autonomous Vehicles.
New Health in All Policies Continuing Education Training Course
June 18, 2021
Virtual
Adrian Ayala is awarded First Place for APA’s Transportation Planning Division Student Paper
Adrian Ayala is awarded First Place for the 2021 National American Planning Association’s Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition for his paper, Exploring Alternatives to Police-Based Traffic Enforcement and OVercoming their Potential Barriers to Implementation.
Best Practices: Helping Frontline Employees Transition to Frontline Supervisors
NTI partnered with Insight Strategies to develop a course to prepare new and future frontline supervisors.
Sicheng Wang awarded 2020 IACP Karen R. Polenske Best Student Paper Award
Our congratulations to Sicheng Wang, PhD candidate. He was recently awarded the IACP Karen R. Polenske Best Student Paper Award for “What is the...
VTC Seeks Senior Research Specialist
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey seeks qualified candidates to fill the Senior Research...
Bloustein doctoral students awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
Ellen O. White is a recipient of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. She conducts research on the environmental impacts of...
COVID-19 and the Future of Economic Activity and Transportation
On September 29, the Bloustein School’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University convened a full-day virtual symposium to share information and gather input from sector leaders regarding COVID-19 responses and thoughts on what to expect from the post pandemic world.
Recent Publications
Does the pathway to transportation walking for older adults run through recreational walking?
Abstract 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. Fewer studies...
Practices for Online Public Involvement
Abstract The purpose of this synthesis is to provide the current state of practice for online public involvement (OPI) tools used by state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and to identify additional areas of research needed based on information gathered from a...
Trip patterns and revenue of shared e-scooters in Louisville, Kentucky
Abstract Data on shared e-scooters in Louisville, Kentucky are analyzed. The data includes check out times, trip duration, and trip distance. Patterns in usage are evaluated and suggest that e-scooters are probably not being used for commute trips, but potentially...
A comparison of the personal and neighborhood characteristics associated with ridesourcing, transit use and driving with NHTS
Abstract The opportunity to conduct an overarching national study to examine the characteristics of ridesourcing users and their neighborhoods was absent until the 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) dataset was released in 2018. As the 2017 NHTS combines...