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Lori Zeller is Recipient of 2014 Mortensen Voorhees Award!
Congratulations to our recent graduate, Lori Zeller, this year’s recipient of the Mortensen Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation...
Brother can you Spare a Ride? Carpooling in Immigrant Neighbourhoods
Blumenberg, Evelyn, and Smart, Michael. 2014. "Brother can you Spare a Ride? Carpooling in Immigrant Neighbourhoods." Urban Studies. 51(9):...
Transportation Futures: Policy Scenarios for Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
Transportation Futures: Policy Scenarios for Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Andrew I. Kay, Robert B. Noland, and Caroline J. Rodier, 56...
Tippers Make Headlines!
The "Tippers" -- staff from VTC's NJ Travel Independence Program (NJTIP) -- made the front page of the Home News Tribune!! Their success of getting...
Ryan Whytlaw
Name: Ryan A.G. Whytlaw Title: Senior Research Specialist Room: 445 Phone: 848-932-2845 Email: rwhytlaw@ejb.rutgers.edu Ryan Whytlaw is a Senior...
James Tagerty
Name: James Tagerty Title: Business Assistant Room: 478 Phone: 848-932-2891 Email: jt983@rutgers.edu
The Tragedy of Transportation: Underfunding Our Future
Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture Series The Tragedy of Transportation: Underfunding Our Future Richard Ravitch Former Lieutenant Governor,...
Ralph W Voorhees, Rutgers Alumnus, Civic and Philanthropic Leader, dies
Ralph W. Voorhees, a 1948 graduate of Rutgers University and friend and benefactor to the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy...
Neighborhoods of affinity: social forces and travel in gay and lesbian neighborhoods
Smart, Michael, and Klein, Nicholas J. 2013. "Neighborhoods of affinity: social forces and travel in gay and lesbian neighborhoods." Journal of the...
Recent Publications
NJ Crossing Guard Training Program Summary Report
Crossing guards play a vital role in the lives of children who walk or bike to school each day. At the same time, the position of crossing guard is one of the most dangerous of municipal jobs due to slips, trips, and falls, and crashes involving motor vehicles. In an...
Is it Safe to Walk to School?
How Parents Perceive their Child’s Trip to and from School: There are many factors that influence parents’ decisions when deciding how their children will get to and from school such as crime, traffic, weather, travel distance, etc. Parents tend to decide whether...
NJ Safe Routes Strategic Plans
New Jersey launched a new strategic planning process in late 2011 to revisit and revise the SRTS Program’s mission, vision, goals, and objectives and, where necessary, align SRTS with the measures to gauge program performance. Much of the work in developing the plan...
Flexible Design Of New Jersey’s Main Streets
This 2002 report provides an investigation of possible changes in design standards for highways passing through New Jersey communities. Through case studies and surveys, the study team discovered a burgeoning national movement away from strict reliance on highway...