Graduate student Yingning Xie found that e-bikes provide a promising alternative for improving healthcare access, helping individuals more easily reach their preferred providers.
Policy
Gov. Murphy Signs New Pedestrian/Cyclist Safety Bill in Maplewood
“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.
VTC at TRB 2025!
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.
Best Practices for Improving Traffic Crash Data in New Jersey
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.
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...
Violation Recidivism Study
Violation Recidivism Study Jon Carnegie. 2009. A report prepared for the NJ Department of Transportation. Tech Brief Final Report
Effects of Plea Bargaining
Effects of Plea Bargaining Jon Carnegie. 2009. A report prepared for the NJ Department of Transportation. Tech Brief Final Report
Driver’s License Suspensions, Impacts and Fairness Study
Driver's License Suspensions, Impacts and Fairness Study Jon Carnegie, 83 pages. A report prepared for the NJ Department of Transportation. August...
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...