Gov. Murphy supports a $4.75 billion plan to add more lanes to an 8-mile section of the New Jersey Turnpike. However, Dr. Kelcie Ralph argues that congestion relief does not last because people quickly change their behavior to take advantage of the newly free-flowing...
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Speed controls, redesigned intersections can save lives of walkers and cyclists, Rutgers professor says
Vehicles killed 7,342 pedestrians, the equivalent of 40 passenger jets falling from the sky and an increase from 4,092 a year earlier, but the jump in deaths isn't a one-year aberration. Kelcie Ralph, an associate professor at Rutgers University who studies...
Victims of traffic fatalities are disproportionately Black and Native
Charles T. Brown, Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and President and CEO of Equitable Cities, assesses the rise in traffic fatalities in an MSNBC interview. A 2021 report from Smart Growth America showed...
The Future of Transporation: Big Data’s Role In Understanding the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles will bring both powerful solutions and incredible challenges to the future of transportation.
Traffic experts, parents don't always see eye to eye on safe cycling routes for children
Parents often disagree with transportation experts over what streets are safe for children to ride bikes, a Rutgers-led study finds. The study, in the journal Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, assessed the Level of Traffic Stress...
Traffic experts, parents don’t always see eye to eye on safe cycling routes for children
Parents often disagree with transportation experts over what streets are safe for children to ride bikes, a Rutgers-led study finds. The study, in the journal Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, assessed the Level of Traffic Stress...
Reporters Topher Sanders, Benjamin Conarck discuss their investigative series Walking While Black
by Zoe Linder-Baptie MPP/MCRP ’18 Students who pursue their degrees at the Bloustein School see these areas of study as opportunities to change the world around them for the better. Earlier this year, the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center hosted reporters...
Bloustein alumnus explains use, choice of pedestrian calming techniques
Non-motorized transportation has been expanding in New Brunswick. Recently, the Bloustein School hosted a workshop on pedestrian calming techniques. Almost twenty graduate and undergraduate students attended a session on pedestrian calming techniques led by Bloustein...
OC road deaths are down, but not as much as elsewhere
In 2002, Robert B. Noland, a professor and director of many programs at Rutgers’ E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, crunched 14 years of traffic fatality data from all 50 states. He concluded that “results strongly refute the hypothesis that...
Bloustein students, alumni examine NYC's Vision Zero initiative
Vision Zero, a multi-national road traffic safety project which aims to achieve a roadway system with no fatalities or serious injuries in road traffic, is prominent in the minds of many planners around the world. It started in Sweden in October 1997, and New York...
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