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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...
Michael Replogle 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...
Set the Table!
Do you wish it were easier, cheaper, and safer to get around or live in North Jersey? Do you want to get involved locally but aren’t sure how? Did...
Rutgers POET and NJTPA win John and Jane Q Public Award at TRB
Transportation professionals often find it challenging to communicate critical transportation concepts to a non-technical audience. While some have...
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...