As tax relief and aid diminish each year while transportation costs rise, New Jersey school districts are under increasing pressure to consolidate,...
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More Than Crossing Streets
Research on the state of the school crossing guard training and working conditions in New Jersey led to the development of current best practices in...
Confronting School Bus Cuts
School districts throughout New Jersey are forced to make budget cuts, and transportation particularly courtesy busing or non state-mandated busing,...
The 3’ Law: Lessons Learned from a National Analysis of State Policies and Interviews (2012)
Due to the significant number of bicyclist fatalities and injuries that occur as a result of accidents with motorists, bicyclists in many states,...
Can I Bicycle to School?
School policies play an important role in determining how students get to and from school each day. However, information on the consistency and...
Pedestrian Safe Corridors Memorandum (2011)
This memorandum contains a brief analysis of the pedestrian crashes pre- and post-improvement along three corridors in New Jersey: downtown Newark...
Bicycle Activity and Attitudes Survey Summary report (2011)
The Bicycle Activity and Attitudes Survey was a random-digit dialing anonymous telephone survey of households in the state of New Jersey, conducted...
An Analysis of Pedestrian Safety in NJ in 2010 (2011)
The primary purpose of this report is to provide a baseline for tracking pedestrian crashes over time. In its current form, the report provides...
Safe Routes to NJ’s Disadvantaged Urban Schools
This study details the NJ Department of Transportation’s Urban Demonstration Program to understand why Safe Routes to School programs do not take...
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study Kaan Ozbay, Ph.D., Bekir Barin, Ph.D., Hong Yang, Ranjit Walia and Robert Williams. 113 pages. February 2010....
Recent Publications
Relationship Between Households’ Housing and Transportation Expenditures Examination from Lifestyle Perspective
ABSTRACT: Because of growing concern about the significant increase in American household transportation costs, federal agencies have endorsed the notion that it is not merely the affordability of housing alone that is important but the affordability of housing and...
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
Abstract Explore the final report prepared by CAIT's Cecilia Feeley and VTC's Deva Deka and Andrea Lubin that explores and documents transportation needs and barriers of NJ adults on the Autism Spectrum in Detour to the Right Place. This report was prepared with...
A Longitudinal Analysis of Cars, Transit, and Employment Outcomes
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 the policies that create them,...
Factors Associated with Disability Paratransit’s Travel Time Reliability
Abstract This paper identifies some of the characteristics of trips and pick-up and drop-off locations that are associated with paratransit's travel time reliability. Following convention, reliability has been defined as the inverse of variability. Four measures of...