Imagine being able to travel from New York to Los Angeles without having to step on a plane, yet be able to do so in a fraction of the time it would...
Planning
VTC Prof Bob Noland featured in Civil Society Online!
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 New Jersey Trucking Baseline Report: A Reality Check
The New Jersey Trucking Baseline Report: A Reality Check Martin E. Robins and Anne Strauss-Wieder, 38 pages. A paper prepared for The New Jersey...
Rutgers University-Newark & NJ TRANSIT TDM Partnership
Rutgers University-Newark & NJ TRANSIT TDM Partnership Andrea Lubin and Pippa Woods, 60 pages. A final memorandum prepared for Rutgers...
Viability of Personal Rapid Transit In New Jersey
Viability of Personal Rapid Transit In New Jersey Jon Carnegie and Paul Hoffman. A report prepared for the New Jersey Department of Transportation...
Northeast Corridor Action Plan: A Call for a New Federal-State Partnership
Northeast Corridor Action Plan: A Call for a New Federal-State Partnership Martin E. Robins, 36 pages. A report prepared with Hamilton, Rabinovitz...
Georges Road Gateway Planning Project
Georges Road Gateway Planning Project VTC staff and a student project team, 61 pages. Prepared for Radha Jagannathan, Ph.D., and Michael J. Camasso,...
Before-After Evaluation of NJDOT Bypass Projects
Before-After Evaluation of NJDOT Bypass Projects VTC is conducting case-study research to review the traffic, circulation, economic and community...
The Role of Amtrak’s Intercity Passenger Rail Services in New Jersey
The Role of Amtrak's Intercity Passenger Rail Services in New Jersey Martin E. Robins, 24 Pages. A report funded by The J.C. Kellogg Foundation,...
An Assessment of Rail Freight Service Within the International Intermodal Transportation Center
An Assessment of Rail Freight Service Within the International Intermodal Transportation Center 35 Pages. A report prepared with A. Strauss-Wieder,...
Recent Publications
GPS-Based Street-View Greenspace Exposure and Wearable Assessed Physical Activity in a Prospective Cohort of US Women
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...
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...