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More lanes on the Turnpike won’t solve congestion | Opinion
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...
Routine Traffic Stops Too Often Turn Deadly, And Jayland Walker Is The Latest Victim
Police experts are still looking for ways to circumvent deadly chases and fatal traffic stops. One way, according to Kelcie Ralph, a transportation scholar at Rutgers University, are traffic cameras. Traffic stops are the most common interactions between police and...
Traffic cameras could reduce racial profiling, Rutgers study finds
Perceptions among state and federal policymakers that the public opposes the installation of speed cameras has made the technology rare despite the fact it could reduce racial profiling and minimize police-driver interactions, according to a Rutgers study recently...
Cameras to catch speeding on NJ roads? Illegal now but public could support it
The idea of automated speed cameras along roadways may get more support from the public, as well as policymakers, if the technology were promoted as a way to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement. That's according to a new study out of Rutgers University. But it...
Kelcie Ralph, PhD, named to Mobility Safety Advisory Group
The National Safety Council (NSC) set up a Mobility Safety Advisory Group (MSAG) of non-NSC people from the private sector, government, non-profit organizations and academia which will advise the NSC Roadway Safety Practice on tactics and strategies that can best...
Kelcie Ralph Selected to National Safety Council’s Mobility Safety Advisory Group
In a potentially significant move for road safety outcomes in the US, the country's National Safety Council (NSC) has moved to push the needs of people who are not in vehicles to the fore. The Mobility Safety Advisory Group (MSAG) consists of non-NSC people from the...
Why It’s So Hard to Convince the Public on Transportation Projects
Engineers and the general public often hold attitudes on transportation topics that directly contradict core tenets of the transportation planning profession, and those differences are especially stark when it comes to reducing the use of automobiles, a new study...
Research: Are Transportation Planning Views Shared by Engineering Students and the Public?
The authors compared the policy preferences of transportation planning students, engineering students, and the public to identify points of consensus and divergence within and between the groups.
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...
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