The Regional Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan (CHSTP) identifies the transportation needs of seniors, low-income people, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. The plan provides strategies for meeting those needs and prioritizing transportation services for funding and implementation. Human services transportation planning has a profound effect on the lives of the people it serves. The right […]
Video Cameras in Access Link Paratransit Vehicles

Video Cameras in Access Link Paratransit Vehicles. Patrick J. Szary, Andy Kaplan, Andrea Lubin, Brian Tobin, and Mike Manzella. 49 pages. 2015. The objective of this project is to identify the actual current use of continuous recording in demand response or other public transportation applications in the US, determine the projected costs per vehicle within […]
Reducing Costs of Purchased Transportation for State Agencies

Reducing Costs of Purchased Transportation for State Agencies. Stephanie DiPetrillo, Andrea Lubin, and Michael J. Smart. 127 pages. 2017. This study sought to identify more efficient and effective ways to provide transportation to consumers supported by New Jersey’s human service departments and divisions. Final Report | Promising Practices Guide | Technical Brief
Improving Pathways to Transit for Persons with Disabilities

Improving Pathways to Transit for Persons with Disabilities Stephanie DiPetrillo, Andrea Lubin, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Carla Salehian, Stephen C. Gibson, Kristine M. Williams, and Theodore Trent Green, 116 pages, August 2016. Persons with disabilities can achieve a greater degree of freedom when they have full access to a variety of transit modes, but this can only […]
Detour to the Right Place

Detour to the Right Place: A Study with Recommendations for Addressing the Transportation Needs and Barriers of Adults on the Autism Spectrum in New Jersey Cecilia Feeley, Ph.D., Devajyoti Deka, Ph.D., Andrea Lubin, and Melanie McGackin. September 2015. Explore the final report prepared by CAIT’s Cecilia Feeley and VTC’s Deva Deka and Andrea Lubin that explores […]
A Longitudinal Analysis of Cars, Transit, and Employment Outcomes

How does access to cars or transit influence one’s economic outcomes? Michael J. Smart, Ph.D., and Nicholas J. Klein, Ph.D., 43 pages. September 2015 How does access to particular types of transportation influence individuals’ economic outcomes? And do typical “snapshot” approaches to research overlook variations in car ownership over time? Ongoing economic development strategies, and […]
Exploring Transportation, Employment, Housing, and Location Issues for New Jersey Veterans with Disability

Exploring Transportation, Employment, Housing, and Location Issues for New Jersey Veterans with Disability Stephanie DiPetrillo and Andrea Lubin, 119 pages. November 2014. Working-age veterans with disability face myriad responsibilities when they seek to rejoin civilian life. They must secure housing and employment while coping with health care concerns and one or more disabilities. Access to transportation – particularly […]
A Strategy for Getting People with Disabilities to Work: Supporting New Jersey County Transportation

Andrea Lubin, Stephanie DiPetrillo and Steven R. Fittante. 121 pages. (Client: NJ Department of Human Services) December 2012. New Jersey’s 21 county community transportation providers – like many of their peers nationwide – are facing economic difficulties in maintaining and enhancing the vital services they provide to transportation disadvantaged persons, including people with disabilities seeking […]
Connecting to Jobs by Connecting to Transit

Connecting to Jobs by Connecting to Transit. Andrea Lubin, Stephanie DiPetrillo, and Louis Hoffman. 58 pages. (Client: NJ Department of Human Services) December 2012. During an 18-month period, the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at Rutgers University, in collaboration with the nonprofit, travel training organization NJ TIP Inc., developed, piloted, and refined a transportation […]
Regional Travel Concierge Initiative: Phase I Planning

Regional Travel Concierge Initiative: Phase I Planning. Andrea Lubin, 33 pages. A report prepared for the Henry H. Kessler Foundation. February 2007. Final Report