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Kelcie Ralph
I’m a Nondriver—and There’s a Good Chance You Are, Too
Research by Rutgers Professor Dr. Kelcie Ralph found that young adults who grew up in a family without a car completed less education, had lower incomes, and faced more unemployment than their peers who were raised in families with consistent car access–even when controlling for family wealth, residential location, family composition and race.
Ralph and White: Do Engineering Instructors Teach Induced Travel?
This latest article by Dr. Kelcie Ralph and Dr. Ellen Oettinger White researches how engineering professors approach the concept of induced travel.
Distracted Walking: A Critical Analysis of the Real Risks and Solutions
Dissecting the “Distracted Walking” Narrative Pedestrian deaths have risen by a staggering 35% between 2008 and 2017 in the United States. This alarming statistic has prompted widespread concern, with many attributing this to the rise of ‘distracted walking’. The...
Dr. Kelcie Ralph Interviewed on Freakonomics: Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?
Dr. Ralph was a guest on the podcast Freakonomics. The discussion centered around the fact that among the world’s high-income countries, the U.S. is particularly good at killing pedestrians — the death rate here is much higher than in places like northern and western Europe, Canada, and Japan. The question is, why?
Raising Kids Would Be So Much Better Without Cars
As Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says, we’re facing a crisis on our roadways. The death rate of children younger than 15 has more than doubled since 2018, from 5.8% to 11.9%, and that’s just for pedestrian deaths related to speeding, not for other scenarios,...
Dr. Kelcie Ralph’s Car Crash Studies featured on Rutgers Today
This Research and Innovation spotlight features how Dr. Ralph has been working with police to change the narrative on how crashes are reported and understood
Research – Ralph on “The End of Speed Traps and Ticket Quotas: Re-framing and Reforming Traffic Cameras to Increase Support”
This latest article by Dr. Kelcie Ralph surveyed U.S. adults about their views on ticket revenues, the government, support for cameras, and a survey experiment.
Four Ways To Build A Better Automated Enforcement Program
Decades of evidence that technology like speed cameras reliably reduces car crashes on the corridors where they're sited — not to mention their potential to reduce dangerous encounters between BIPOC and human officers — but automated enforcement...
Ralph et al article most viewed on JAPA
Congratulations to Nicholas Klein, Kelcie Ralph, Calvin Thigpen, and Anne Brown on their article "Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform" being the most viewed article from the last Journal of the American Planning Association...
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