This memorandum contains a brief analysis of the pedestrian crashes pre- and post-improvement along three corridors in New Jersey: downtown Newark...
Reports
Bicycle Activity and Attitudes Survey Summary report (2011)
The Bicycle Activity and Attitudes Survey was a random-digit dialing anonymous telephone survey of households in the state of New Jersey, conducted...
An Analysis of Pedestrian Safety in NJ in 2010 (2011)
The primary purpose of this report is to provide a baseline for tracking pedestrian crashes over time. In its current form, the report provides...
Safe Routes to NJ’s Disadvantaged Urban Schools
This study details the NJ Department of Transportation’s Urban Demonstration Program to understand why Safe Routes to School programs do not take...
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study Kaan Ozbay, Ph.D., Bekir Barin, Ph.D., Hong Yang, Ranjit Walia and Robert Williams. 113 pages. February 2010....
NJ Pedestrian Behavior Study (2009)
The primary purpose of this report is to document basic statistics from the NJ Statewide Pedestrian Survey conducted in November 2009. The survey...
Pedestrian Lighting in New Jersey: A Means to Improve Pedestrian Safety (2007)
This report recommends that the issue of pedestrian lighting be made apparent to state, county, and municipal leaders and that they be given the...
Safe Routes to School Open House Report
A report on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Open Houses conducted in New Jersey during October and November 2006 by the New Jersey Department of...
Constructing, Maintaining and Financing Sidewalks in New Jersey (2006)
Sidewalks are a complicated issue due to multiple jurisdictions (local, county, and state), ambiguous responsibility for construction,...
Building a Better BPAC: Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Group Best Practices (2006)
The New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center analyzed and evaluated statewide bicycle and pedestrian advisory groups, including their...
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...