This study details the NJ Department of Transportation’s Urban Demonstration Program to understand why Safe Routes to School programs do not take...
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Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study
Pedestrian Counter Evaluation Study Kaan Ozbay, Ph.D., Bekir Barin, Ph.D., Hong Yang, Ranjit Walia and Robert Williams. 113 pages. February 2010....
NJ Pedestrian Behavior Study (2009)
The primary purpose of this report is to document basic statistics from the NJ Statewide Pedestrian Survey conducted in November 2009. The survey...
Pedestrian Lighting in New Jersey: A Means to Improve Pedestrian Safety (2007)
This report recommends that the issue of pedestrian lighting be made apparent to state, county, and municipal leaders and that they be given the...
Safe Routes to School Open House Report
A report on Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Open Houses conducted in New Jersey during October and November 2006 by the New Jersey Department of...
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VTC at TRB
VTC at TRB January 12-15, 2015 Join VTC faculty and staff at the 2015 Transportation Research Board at the following sessions/workshops/events:...
Constructing, Maintaining and Financing Sidewalks in New Jersey (2006)
Sidewalks are a complicated issue due to multiple jurisdictions (local, county, and state), ambiguous responsibility for construction,...
Building a Better BPAC: Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Group Best Practices (2006)
The New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center analyzed and evaluated statewide bicycle and pedestrian advisory groups, including their...
NJ Safe Routes Strategic Plan 2005-2009
The purpose of the Safe Routes To School (SRTS) strategic plan is to establish an operational framework to guide the NJ Department of Transportation...
Recent Publications
Relationship Between Households’ Housing and Transportation Expenditures Examination from Lifestyle Perspective
ABSTRACT: Because of growing concern about the significant increase in American household transportation costs, federal agencies have endorsed the notion that it is not merely the affordability of housing alone that is important but the affordability of housing and...
Detour to the Right Place: A Study with Recommendations for Addressing the Transportation Needs and Barriers of Adults on the Autism Spectrum in New Jersey
Abstract Explore the final report prepared by CAIT's Cecilia Feeley and VTC's Deva Deka and Andrea Lubin that explores and documents transportation needs and barriers of NJ adults on the Autism Spectrum in Detour to the Right Place. This report was prepared with...
A Longitudinal Analysis of Cars, Transit, and Employment Outcomes
How does access to particular types of transportation influence individuals’ economic outcomes? And do typical “snapshot” approaches to research overlook variations in car ownership over time? Ongoing economic development strategies, and the policies that create them,...
Factors Associated with Disability Paratransit’s Travel Time Reliability
Abstract This paper identifies some of the characteristics of trips and pick-up and drop-off locations that are associated with paratransit's travel time reliability. Following convention, reliability has been defined as the inverse of variability. Four measures of...