Communicating the Benefits of TOD: The City of Evanston's Transit Oriented Redevelopment and The Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System (2006) By...
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Progress and Future, 2nd Transit Village Symposium
Progress and Future, 2nd Transit Village Symposium On June 9, over 150 participants took part in a half-day event at the Edward J. Bloustein School...
Housing Diversity and Affordability in New Jersey’s Transit Villages
Housing Diversity and Affordability in New Jersey's Transit Villages (2006) By Dorothy Morallos Mabel Smith Honors Thesis, Douglass College,...
Principles for a U.S. Public Freight Agenda in a Global Economy
Principles for a U.S. Public Freight Agenda in a Global Economy Martin E. Robins and Anne Strauss-Wieder, 28 pages. A paper prepared for The...
Energy Consumption and the Commute to Work
Energy Consumption and the Commute to Work VTC staff in association with Jeffrey Zupan, 4 pages. A working paper prepared for the Center for Energy,...
The Impacts of Office Location on the Commute Experience of New Jersey Workers
The Impacts of Office Location on the Commute Experience of New Jersey Workers This study examined the effects of NJ office locations on personal...
Reform, Revenue, Results: How to Save New Jersey’s Transportation System
Reform, Revenue, Results: How to Save New Jersey's Transportation System Regional Plan Association, 16 pages. VTC and the Bloustein School served as...
SAFETEA-LU: Is It Good for New Jersey?
SAFETEA-LU: Is It Good for New Jersey? VTC hosted a half-day conference on October 12 featuring prominent federal and state transportation experts...
Terrorism 2005-06:Is New Jersey Safe?
Terrorism 2005-06:Is New Jersey Safe? VTC and the Center for Urban Policy Research on September 27 co-hosted Admiral James M. Loy, the former deputy...
Putting the Trust Back in the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund (Executive Summary)
Putting the Trust Back in the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund (Executive Summary) Regional Plan Association, 8 pages. VTC and the Bloustein...
Recent Publications
Teaching Children about Bicycle Safety: An Evaluation of the New Jersey Bike School Program
Abstract There are multiple health and environmental benefits associated with increasing bicycling among children. However, the use of bicycles is also associated with severe injuries and fatalities. In order to reduce bicycle crashes, a bicycling education program...
Practical Approaches for Involving Traditionally Underserved Populations in Transportation Decision Making
Abstract The National Cooperative Highway Research Program has published a toolkit of practical approaches for agencies and practitioners to foster the meaningful involvement of traditionally underserved populations—particularly minority, low-income,...
How Do People Value Different Types of Pedestrians and Bicycle Infrastructure? (2013)
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University undertook a survey of New Jersey residents specifically focused on people’s valuation of different types of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and the reasons for their valuation in two large regions...
How Does Induced Travel Affect Sustainable Transportation Policy?
Abstract Induced travel has long been debated among transportation professionals and frequently ignored by planners when considering policy. (Induced travel refers to the observation that congested roads quickly gain new traffic after they have been expanded.) In...