In a new editorial, VTC Director Robert Noland, PhD, reflects on how transportation and environmental research has evolved over the past three decades, highlighting major findings and persistent gaps between research and policy. His perspective underscores why evidence-based planning remains essential to transportation decision-making.
The New Jersey Target Zero Commission adopted its first statewide Action Plan on December 15, 2025, outlining 72 actions to eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries by 2040. A centerpiece of the plan is the Target Zero Rapid Response Program, which deploys multidisciplinary teams to review fatal crashes and implement immediate safety improvements.
Registration is now open for the 2026 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit! Join the NJDOT and transportation leaders as we work toward making every journey safer across the state.
NJ TRANSIT’s funding history shapes today’s transit system—this report maps past decisions and a path to a more reliable future.
VTC joined the New Jersey State Policy Lab and other Rutgers researchers in offering research-backed strategies to support transportation, housing, and infrastructure improvements under New Jersey’s new administration.
Graduate student Yingning Xie found that e-bikes provide a promising alternative for improving healthcare access, helping individuals more easily reach their preferred providers.
“This bill marks a crucial step in advancing awareness of New Jersey’s Safe Passing Law and, in particular, ensuring drivers fully understand their responsibility to protect pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vulnerable road users when they’re behind the wheel,” said Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP,PP, Executive Director, Voorhees Transportation Center.
Join VTC at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC! Don’t miss the opportunity to network with VTC staff, faculty, and students; learn about our research; and ask about what we will be working on next.
In a recent blog, Hannah Younes and Robert B. Noland highlight New Jersey’s lack of easy public access to non-fatal traffic crash data.
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...
Since its creation in 1979, NJ TRANSIT has grown into the geographically largest public transit system in the United States. Over more than four decades, the agency’s financial structure has shifted in response to changing state and federal priorities—shaping service...
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...
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...
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...