In a new editorial, VTC Director Robert Noland, PhD, reflects on how transportation and environmental research has evolved over the past three decades, highlighting major findings and persistent gaps between research and policy. His perspective underscores why evidence-based planning remains essential to transportation decision-making.
The New Jersey Target Zero Commission adopted its first statewide Action Plan on December 15, 2025, outlining 72 actions to eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries by 2040. A centerpiece of the plan is the Target Zero Rapid Response Program, which deploys multidisciplinary teams to review fatal crashes and implement immediate safety improvements.
POET continues to support the NYMTC Community Planning Workshop program. The Town of Pelham held a virtual public workshop to gather public input on...
Kenia Gonzalez recently joined the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center as Bilingual Outreach Specialist. In this Q&A, she shares how language access and bilingual outreach support more inclusive transportation planning.
Registration is now open for the 2026 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit! Join the NJDOT and transportation leaders as we work toward making every journey safer across the state.
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC ) of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New...
VTC is proud to present at this year’s TransAction Conference, held April 14–16 in Atlantic City! Registration is now open!
NJ TRANSIT’s funding history shapes today’s transit system—this report maps past decisions and a path to a more reliable future.
Convened by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the 2026 TRB Annual Meeting was held January 11–15, 2026, in Washington, D.C., at the Walter E....
The New Jersey State Planning Commission has adopted an updated State Plan, along with a new Impact Assessment and Infrastructure Needs Assessment, marking the first comprehensive update since 2001. The Plan will guide coordinated state and local decision-making on land use, transportation, housing, infrastructure, and climate adaptation.
Recent advances in biometric sensing technologies, such as eye tracking, heart rate trackers, and galvanic skin response (GSR) sensors, offer new opportunities to measure pedestrian stress level and their travel experiences in real-time. Uncertainty remains about...
Background Increasing evidence positively links greenspace and physical activity (PA). However, most studies use measures of greenspace, such as satellite-based vegetation indices around the residence, which fail to capture ground-level views and day-to-day dynamic...
Induced travel elasticities associated with new road capacity are typically estimated for roads of higher functional classifications, such as interstate freeways and principal arterials. These are estimated as “own” elasticities, that is an increase in lane kilometers...
There is a growing perception that e-scooters are more dangerous than bicycles and e-bikes, with towns implementing measures to ban their usage. Yet, there is not much evidence from large scale surveys to substantiate this claim. Nearly 14,000 micromobility injuries...