On June 29, 2014, Together North Jersey launched a summer-long engagement series in partnership with The Star-Ledger and NJ.com. The series of...
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A volatile relationship: The effect of changing gasoline prices on public support for mass transit
Smart, Michael J. 2014. "A volatile relationship: The effect of changing gasoline prices on public support for mass transit." Transportation...
Gail Columbia
Name: Gail Columbia Title: Grant/Contract Coordinator Room: 478 Phone: 848-932-2368 Email: gail.columbia@rutgers.edu
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,...
Recent Publications
Costs and Benefits of a Road Diet for Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract The analysis presented here is of a candidate road diet conversion site, Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, an oversized arterial corridor accessing the center of the city. The VISSIM micro-simulation model is used to analyze current conditions...
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...