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
Crash Data Availability and Best Practices Across the U.S.: Lessons for New Jersey
Objective While fatal crashes are available through the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and are readily available to the public, many states do not make their crash data easily accessible for the public and the research community. The public has an interest...
Understanding How Marginalized Genders Travel Using NJ TRANSIT
Through this research, NJ TRANSIT sought to understand how women and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer plus community, sometimes referred to as sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) travel on NJ TRANSIT so the agency can provide better...
Assessing Pedestrian Stress with Biometric Sensing and Survey Responses
Recent advances in biometric sensing technologies, such as eye tracking, heart rate trackers, and galvanic skin response (GSR) sensors, offer new opportunities to measure pedestrian stress level and their travel experiences in real-time. Uncertainty remains about...
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...