The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Ph.D. candidate Sicheng Wang is the recipient of 2018...
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Rutgers POET and NJTPA win Silver APA Award for Innovative Outreach!
Innovations in Public Engagement is a public outreach program developed by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) — which...
Mary Buchanan Receives 2018 Mortensen-Voorhees Award
Mary Buchanan is the 2018 recipient of the Mortensen-Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation Studies. Mary will be joining the research...
Daniel Sperling to Speak at Voorhees Distinguished Lecture
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy present The Alan M. Voorhees...
Ph.D. candidate Sicheng Wang receives APA Transportation Planning Grant
Ph.D. Candidate for the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Sicheng Wang received an American Planning Association (APA) Transportation...
VTC at TRB 2018!
Please join VTC faculty, staff, and students at the following 97th TRB Annual Meeting sessions, workshops, and events. Sunday, January...
VTC’s Jon Carnegie and Martin Robins Appointed to Governor-Elect’s Transition Team!
VTC Executive Director Jon Carnegie and VTC Director Emeritus Martin Robins were both appointed by Governor-Elect Philip Murphy to join his...
Plainfield School District Travel Plan Wins APA Outstanding Student Project Award
On Monday October 30, 2017, VTC’s Leigh Ann Von Hagen and Sean Meehan, together with partners from the Plainfield Public School District and the...
Mobility equity: New law inspired by CAIT research should benefit autistic adults
In May 2017, Governor Chris Christie signed legislation that takes an important step toward meeting the transportation needs of New Jersey citizens...
Transit Industry Training Needs Assessment
VTC Director Bob Noland together with Marc Weiner, Stephanie DiPetrillo, Andrea Lubin, and Sean Meehan have begun work on an assessment of the...
Recent Publications
Exploration of millennials’ perception of spending on cities, mass transit, and highways
Abstract In light of declining spending and increasing backlogs for cities and transportation agencies, this study compares the perception of millennials with the perception of older generations regarding public spending on cities, mass transit, and highways in the US...
Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All?
Abstract This is a review of the book "Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All?," edited by Golub, et al. (2016), Routledge, New York (ISBN 978-1-138-95024-5). The review commends the editors and chapter authors for emphasizing the importance of...
Remembrance of Cars and Buses Past
Abstract Does living in a neighborhood with high-quality public transit influence travel behavior later in life, even if you move to a neighborhood with worse transit service? To test this, we construct residential histories of individuals using decades of data from...
Has the Great Recession and its Aftermath Reduced Traffic Fatalities?
Abstract An analysis of state-level data from 1984 to 2014 provides evidence on the relationship between economic recessions and US traffic fatalities. While there are large reductions associated with decreases in household median income, other policy variables tend...