In May 2017, Governor Chris Christie signed legislation that takes an important step toward meeting the transportation needs of New Jersey citizens...
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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...
NJTIP @ Rutgers Assists Bus and Rail Riders to Get Going on Transit!
Get Going on Transit!, an experiential transit education program coordinated by NJTIP @ Rutgers, was conducted in New Brunswick on Thursday July 27,...
VTC provides expertise for free, new online course on Environmental Justice
VTC staff led by David Aimen, with support from Charles Brown and Catherine Bull provided subject matter expertise for the development of a FREE new...
Bloustein Students Daehee Kim & Thalya Reyes receive APTF scholarships
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP)...
Congratulations VTC Advisory Board Chair Bob Skinner!
Congratulations to Bob Skinner, Chair of VTC's Advisory Board and Former Executive Director of TRB, who was elected to the Board of Directors of...
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...
Plainfield School District Travel Plan Earns 2017 Smart Growth Award
On Wednesday June 7, VTC’s Leigh Ann Von Hagen and Sean Meehan, together with partners from the Plainfield Public School District and the City of...
Catrina Meyer Receives 2017 Mortensen-Voorhees Award
Catrina Meyer is the 2017 recipient of the Mortensen/Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation Studies. After graduating from Bloustein in...
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...
Recent Publications
Attitudes towards transit-oriented development: Resident experiences and professional
Abstract Transit-oriented development (TOD) provides highly efficient access to transit facilities and, when implemented in concert with streetscape changes, improves neighborhood walkability. In some regions, TOD has generated controversy, seen as impinging on the...
The effect of mobility loss and car ownership on the feeling of depression, happiness, and loneliness
Abstract With the conjecture that mobility is affected by both personal impairments and automobile access, this paper examined how difficulty walking, difficulty climbing stairs, and automobile ownership affect subjective wellbeing. Subjective wellbeing was defined by...
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...