This project supports NJDOT’s compliance with FHWA reporting requirements by using established methods developed by RU-VTC to estimate local roadway revenues and expenditures from FY 2022 or FY 2023 municipal and county financial audit data. The results will be used to complete FHWA Form 536 and provide insight into local transportation funding in New Jersey.

Established by P.L.2024, C.109, the New Jersey Target Zero Commission aims to end roadway fatalities by 2040. VTC will support planning, coordination, and public engagement, including developing a website with safety data, reports, and updates to ensure transparency and alignment with the law’s requirements.

NJTIP will lead the TIP Passaic STEP initiative, aimed at enhancing age-friendly practices in Paterson and Wayne, NJ.

NJ A1487 seeks to establish a rebate program for electric bicycle purchases. This project will examine how similar programs in other states have influenced policies, user behavior, and infrastructure, with a focus on equity and underserved populations.

This project aims to increase the level of awareness concerning transportation-related issues within NJ, promote an exchange of ideas, translate the latest trends and practices, showcase innovation, and promote research results.

NJTOD keeps planners, developers, officials, and the public up-to-date on how to create vibrant neighborhoods around transit facilities.

While fatal crashes are available through the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and are readily …

This project will help to address the need for information on induced demand by developing and piloting a guide that provides a framework for State DOTs to consider induced demand effects in various applications of transportation policy development, planning, and project development.

This is a multi-disciplinary effort to develop a database using a variety of mobility datasets. VTC’s role will be to assess the usability of this system, MobilityNet, as a useful tool for transportation planners.

The New Jersey Induced Travel Calculator was developed to allow users to estimate how much new traffic is generated when a new road or new lane is built.

RU-VTC continues to partner with NJTPA on the Vibrant Communities Initiative, offering targeted support to North Jersey municipalities, counties, and community groups through technical assistance, placemaking projects, resources, and workshops.

Specifically, we will seek to understand whether automobile drivers exiting from I-280 (at exit 13) can transfer to the NRL at the Orange Street NRL station (or other locations).

We are now collecting an additional round of data on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on how people work, travel, and engage in commerce, to track these changes over time with the aim to determine whether these changes persist.

The NJ ZIP pilot program is a first-come, first-serve voucher program designed to incentivize the adoption of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (ZE MHDVs) by New Jersey businesses and institutions, especially those operating within overburdened communities.

The purpose of the workshops is to provide planning assistance to local municipalities and to develop recommendations for local improvements consistent with the goals of Moving Forward.

Seeking to understand how investments in passenger facilities can improve food access and transportation services while addressing the needs of the unhoused population that rely on facilities for shelter.

Exploring opportunities to expand service to rural areas of Cumberland County through program changes, implementation of micro-transit, or other means while staying with existing funding resources.

This project is focused on familiarizing and building understanding among NJ county community transit providers for AV technology and documenting their concerns and suggestions.

RU-VTC partnered with NJTPA to promote implementation of the Together North Jersey plan with technical activities focused on topics related to economic competitiveness, livability, resiliency, and efficiency.

NJTIP @ Rutgers proposes that our staff work cooperatively with Union County Educational Services Commission staff during the upcoming school year.

Rutgers-POET is continuing to work with North Jersey’s metropolitan planning organization to research, evaluate and deploy creative approaches to public involvement. Examples: Pop-up radio studio, Set the Table!, UpNext North Jersey.

This project seeks to better understand how new transit facility investment can be better integrated with food access and address the needs of sensitive communities.

To better understand the relationships between Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and the travel behaviors of those who live nearby, and TOD characteristics and its appeal to the customers of retail establishments located within.

The objectives of this project are to estimate local government revenue and expenditures, develop and pilot test a municipal survey, and complete Form FHWA 536.

Rutgers-VTC is providing planning technical assistance to update the CIF by incorporating emerging planning considerations, refreshing data sets, and developing new approaches to identifying investment areas.

NJTIP @ Rutgers provides travel training for people with disabilities and older adults focused on employment, vocational training, life enrichment or volunteer work.

Examining stressors for transit workers, identifying the psychological effects of COVID-19, demonstrating the effects to transit management, and engaging workers and management to develop measures that will have a long-lasting effect.

Address significant gaps in public engagement guidance currently available to transit agencies seeking to use virtual tools and techniques to facilitate communication with the community, potential passengers, and current riders.

The updated Morris County Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan (CHSTP) provides an integrated and collaborative framework for providing human services transportation in Morris County, New Jersey.

The research approach blends desktop research with quantitative and qualitative research tasks, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups designed to identify best practices for VPI in varied planning and project development contexts.

This project aims to increase the level of awareness concerning transportation-related issues within NJ, promote an exchange of ideas, translate the latest trends and practices, showcase innovation, and promote research results.

NJTOD.org keeps municipal officials, planners and advocates up-to-date on the potential for intensive development and redevelopment around transit facilities.

This project is studying how a comprehensive, multi-goal transportation planning and policy framework can be used to achieve carbon-neutral transportation that provides healthy, just, efficient, and resilient mobility for all NJ residents.

The objective of this project is to use methods, create tools, and test the tools in the service of the needs of real communities in order to explicitly integrate both the social and technology solutions to improve safety.

Exploring opportunities for utilizing microtransit as a cost-effective means to meet demand for inter-county trips among NJ’s county transit customers.

The objectives of this research are to map current and future flood risk, create a web-based flood risk visualization tool and make recommendations for how NJDOT personnel can apply the flood risk visualization tool in their work.

Participants work with a travel instructor who teaches safe travel skills using remote and virtual instruction, then by riding on the bus or train with the customer individually until they can travel confidently and independently.

This research project seeks to update survey data for 38 NJ TRANSIT bus routes in the Newark market.

This 3- day program introduces participants to accessible fixed route transportation and other mobility options, in New Jersey.

The Destination 2040 planning process is designed to create a future-oriented master plan that is adaptive to changing circumstances and new opportunities.

A GIS-based land use and transit planning web-application that allows users to map, report, and export data for their needs.