Earlier this month, Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute, talked with Paul Comfort of the Transit Unplugged podcast. Billy explains NTI’s role as the training arm of the transit industry, primarily focused on the administrative side including procurement, DBE (disadvantaged business enterprise), financial management, and more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major changes in how people work and travel. Research by Robert Noland and Wenwen Zhang suggests that some of these changes are likely to endure.
Ph.D. candidate Ellen O. White recently received the Student Aspiration Merit Award for a Multimedia Session at the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET).
The WTS Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship was established in 1981 by WTS International to encourage women to pursue career paths in transportation.
Abstract In an effort to understand how changes in mobility are associated with the spread of the coronavirus, distinguished professor Robert Noland used mobility data from Google correlated with estimates of the effective reproduction rate, a measure of viral...
Abstract Bikeshare use in New York City dropped substantially during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but by summer of 2020 had largely recovered to pre-pandemic levels. The patterns of usage, however, have changed. In “Changes in the Pattern of Bikeshare...
Noland, R.B, Wang, S, (2021). Variation in ride-hailing trips in Chengdu, China. Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920920307823?via%3Dihub Abstract A new paper by Bloustein School doctoral candidate Sicheng Wang and Distinguished...
Abstract This study examines transit mode choice preferences of New Jersey commuters traveling to New York City (NYC) with the objective of assisting trans-Hudson ferry service planning on the basis of variables significantly affecting mode choice. A stated...