Congratulations to our recent graduate, Lori Zeller, this year’s recipient of the Mortensen Voorhees Award for Achievement in Transportation...
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Transportation Futures: Policy Scenarios for Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
Transportation Futures: Policy Scenarios for Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Andrew I. Kay, Robert B. Noland, and Caroline J. Rodier, 56...
Tippers Make Headlines!
The "Tippers" -- staff from VTC's NJ Travel Independence Program (NJTIP) -- made the front page of the Home News Tribune!! Their success of getting...
The Tragedy of Transportation: Underfunding Our Future
Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture Series The Tragedy of Transportation: Underfunding Our Future Richard Ravitch Former Lieutenant Governor,...
Ralph W Voorhees, Rutgers Alumnus, Civic and Philanthropic Leader, dies
Ralph W. Voorhees, a 1948 graduate of Rutgers University and friend and benefactor to the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy...
A Strategy for Getting People with Disabilities to Work: Supporting New Jersey County Transportation
Andrea Lubin, Stephanie DiPetrillo and Steven R. Fittante. 121 pages. (Client: NJ Department of Human Services) December 2012. New Jersey's 21...
Connecting to Jobs by Connecting to Transit
Connecting to Jobs by Connecting to Transit. Andrea Lubin, Stephanie DiPetrillo, and Louis Hoffman. 58 pages. (Client: NJ Department of Human...
Louis Gambaccini
In November 2012, VTC interviewed Louis Gambaccini, whose career in transportation and planning spanned more than 50 years. In 1998, he established the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and was a senior fellow emeritus at that institution.
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture Series Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City Peter Norton Technology historian and...
Transit Oriented Development: What Does the Research Tell Us?
Transit Oriented Development: What Does the Research Tell Us? Jon Carnegie, AICP/PP. May 2012. A presentation made to a joint meeting of the...
Recent Publications
NJ SRTS Program Update Report (June 2014)
The New Jersey Safe Routes to School Program: A Review of Three Years of Services, Training, Research, Outreach and Technical Assistance June 2014 marked the conclusion of the third full year of the enhanced non-infrastructure program housed at the New Jersey Safe...
Bicycling to Rail Stations in NJ: 2013 Benchmarking Report
Abstract The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) undertook an effort to benchmark the current state of travel by a unique set of travelers, transit riders who travel to stations by bicycle. Despite the state’s large commuter and light rail network, a very...
Gay Men Travel Shorter Distances than the Average Person
Abstract VTC's Mike Smart was featured in an Atlantic Cities writeup of an article with Bloustein School PhD graduate Nick Klein on travel patterns in LGBT neighborhoods. Gay men living in gay neighborhoods travel much shorter distances on average than their straight...
Costs and Benefits of a Road Diet for Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract The analysis presented here is of a candidate road diet conversion site, Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, an oversized arterial corridor accessing the center of the city. The VISSIM micro-simulation model is used to analyze current conditions...