The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) student Sherri Dawson is the recipient of a 2014-15 APTF Scholarship. All member organizations of the American Public...
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Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center
Rutgers study finds after Hurricane Sandy, NJ residents support government mitigation, but not footing the bill
New Jersey residents who were surveyed four months after Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast of the United States in October 2012 expressed strong support for government policies to reduce the likelihood of severe damage from future hurricanes, according to a...
Voorhees Transportation Center releases GASCAP model
The Bloustein School's Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center has released GASCAP — the Greenhouse-Gas Assessment Spreadsheet for CAPital Projects —a freely available Microsoft Excel based spreadsheet tool designed by VTC. This spreadsheet based tool allows users to...
New “road diet” study by Voorhees Transportation Center could create a safer Livingston Avenue
A new research study from the Bloustein School’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, “Costs and Benefits of a Road Diet for Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey,” found that by including turning lanes and bike lanes will not only create safer streets for...
Annual Bike/Walk Summit to be held at Bloustein School, Feb.8
The Fifth Annual NJ Bike & Walk Summit, presented by the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition (NJBWC), will be held at the Bloustein School’s Special Events Forum, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 8:00 a.m. –...
Bloustein students raise money for Elijah’s Promise with Thanksgiving pie sale
For the third year, Bloustein students from the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement and theAlan M. Voorhees Transportation Center joined forces to hold their annual Thanksgiving pie sale to raise money for Elijah’s Promise and the annual Turkey Trot. The two...
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 and Rutgers University, died of natural causes on Monday, November 4. He was 87. A sterling example of volunteerism and...
Voorhees Transportation Center launches website to promote transit-oriented development news in NJ
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, (VTC), a national leader in transportation research and education and the nucleus of transportation-related policy research, training and education at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
Ravitch to discuss transportation underfunding, November 11
Richard Ravitch, former Lieutenant Governor of New York will present the Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture, “The Tragedy of Transportation: Underfunding our Future” on Monday, November 11. The event will be held at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and...
NTI’s Larrousse presents transit planning, financial, organizational sessions in Singapore
Paul Larrousse, director of the National Transit Institute, recently participated as one of the U.S. facilitators/trainers as part of the Singapore-United States Third Country Training Program Workshop on Sustainable Urban Transport Planning and Management. The...