Please join VTC faculty and staff at the following 96th TRB Annual Meeting sessions, workshops, and events. Trevor Hanson, Andrea Lubin...
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Bloustein Transportation Students Receive Scholarships
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP)...
Transportation Pride
Julene Paul Receives 2016 Mortensen-Voorhees Award
Julene Paul is the 2016 recipient of the Mortensen/Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation Studies. Julene focused her studies on the...
VTC selected for 2016 APA-NJ Annual Planning Awards
2016 American Planning Association - New Jersey Chapter Awardees are announced! Congratulations to the following award winning projects led...
Public Engagement Focus Groups
Rutgers University researchers want to talk to New Jersey residents about their experience and concerns with transportation in our area, such as...
VTC at TRB 2016
VTC at TRB January 10-14, 2016 Please join VTC faculty and staff at the 2016 Transportation Research Board at the following...
Connect to Transit – Free Seminar from NJTIP
NTIP@Rutgers is offering a free seminar to teach professionals, volunteers and community members who work with older adults and people with...
2015 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit
The 2015 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit brought together over 250 planners, engineers, advocates, and policy-makers from throughout the state to...
Donald Shoup to speak at VTC Distinguished Lecture
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy present The Alan M. Voorhees...
Recent Publications
Impacts of standardizing school start time on children and household workers – An examination with NHTS data
Abstract Due to demonstrated health, safety, and performance benefits to children from delayed school start time, academics and government agencies in the United States are increasingly insisting on starting schools at or after 8:30 AM – the time recommended by the...
Benchmarking Gentrification near Commuter Rail Stations in New Jersey
Abstract: Predictions in recent studies that an increasingly large number of households will locate near rail stations because of changing lifestyles and perceptions of younger generations should be a reason for concern for transportation planners as excessively high...
What do Planning Professionals, Police and Pedestrians in General Think about Distracted Driving and Walking?
Abstract Issues that relate to distracted driving and walking are discussed by presenting results from a survey of planning professionals, police officers, and pedestrians in New Jersey. The pedestrian intercept survey was completed by 788 individuals, while the...
Improving Pathways to Transit for Persons with Disabilities
Abstract 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 be achieved when the pathways to transit – the infrastructure and conditions in the built environment – allow full...