Principal Investigator: Michael Smart

NJ TRANSIT sought to understand how investments in passenger facilities could improve neighborhood food access and essential transportation services while ethically addressing the needs of the unhoused population that relied on NJT facilities for shelter. Addressing the needs of sensitive communities added an additional challenging dimension to improving transit facilities, since construction projects were disruptive to everyone, including unhoused individuals who depended on transit facilities for shelter and other amenities. NJ TRANSIT also aimed to identify best practices during construction, as well as ways to improve the passenger experience while contributing to solutions for the unhoused.