Please join us at the TRB 103rd Annual Meeting! VTC faculty, staff, and students will participate in the following events, sessions, and workshops....
Blog
Rethinking Complete Streets
By Hannah Younes, Robert B. Noland, Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Jeffrey Dennis, Colin Roche, and Sam Rosenthal Governor Phil Murphy signed S-147 into law...
Marking the Passing of Mort Downey
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of longtime VTC board member and former Chair, Mortimer L. Downey, III, who passed away on November 2nd following a long illness.
VTC Names Andrea Lubin as NJTIP Managing Director
We are pleased to welcome Andrea Lubin as NJTIP Managing Director! Andrea comes to NJTIP with more than 20 years of experience with VTC.
Jeffrey Young Receives 2023 Mortensen-Voorhees Award
Jeffrey Young is the 2024 recipient of the Mortensen-Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation Studies.
VTC 25th Anniversary: Celebrating a Visionary with an Update on a New Hudson River Rail Tunnel
by Philip Plotch for Eno Center for Transportation, May 12, 2023 The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center celebrated its 25th anniversary this...
Beyond Bombers and NJTIP @ Rutgers
NJTIP @ Rutgers is happy to see the Beyond Bombers Café featured on the front page of the Home New Tribune. NJTIP has had the pleasure of offering...
Avenues in Motion’ gathers community leaders, experts to improve road safety in Morris County
RANDOLPH TWP. – “Avenues in Motion” brought together local government officials and industry experts to discuss ways to improve roadway safety and...
Eva Lerner-Lam Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
We applaud long-time VTC board member Eva Lerner-Lam on her recent election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)!
Jacob Thompson featured in hometown newspaper
In August 2022, Midland College received an online donation to the Chaparral Circle Endowment Fund Court of Honor from Jacob Thompson with the...
Recent Publications
The Traffic Calming Effect of Delineated Bicycle Lanes
Abstract We analyze the effect of a bicycle lane on traffic speeds. Computer vision techniques are used to detect and classify the speed and trajectory of over 9,000 motor-vehicles at an intersection that was part of a pilot demonstration in which a bicycle lane was...
Concerns expressed by used electric vehicle owners based on surveying social media
Abstract The used EV market is growing as more EVs penetrate the market. To examine who is purchasing used EVs and what concerns they may have, we deployed a survey focused on owners of used EVs. Data was collected online via posting the survey to used-EV-related...
Morris Moves: Morris County Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan
The Morris County Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan (CHSTP) was written in accordance with federal statute, first required in 2006 and re-authorized most recently in the 2016 legislation PL 114-22 entitled Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act...
Working from Home and Walking during and after COVID
We investigate the relationship between people who worked from home during the pandemic and how often they walked before, during, and after COVID. We find that people who worked from home during the pandemic had the largest increases in walking frequency compared to...