“Recent history tells us that the more you can do pay-as-you-go and the less reliance on bonding, the more stable your funding will be and you will be able to maintain a reasonable program,” said Martin Robins, director emeritus of Rutgers University’s Alan M....
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Former NJ Transit Executive Talks Transportation Fund, Possible Transit Worker Strike
New Jersey’s life blood flows through the transportation grid. And there’s a coming crash. The transportation trust to fund bridge and road repairs runs dry June 30. NJ Transit‘s depleted operating budget supplanted by the take from Turnpike tolls could also run dry...
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...
Hidden beneath her transportation equity cloak, Kelcie Ralph’s true passion is ungulates
Although she insists that growing up in suburban Anchorage, Alaska was no different than growing up in the suburbs of New York City or Denver, Kelcie Ralph—who was was named an Assistant Professor in Transportation Policy and Planning at the Bloustein School earlier...
Five Northeast states, DC to develop potential market-based policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation
On November 24 the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) released a report prepared by the GCC with Cambridge Systematics regarding opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector in the northeast and mid-Atlantic. The report, “Reducing...
Satisfying Transportation Needs Will Improve Quality of Life for Adults on Autism Spectrum
An integrated approach to providing access to reliable and safe transportation is needed for adults on the autism spectrum and their families, according to a new Rutgers study that offers recommendations for removing barriers to better mobility. The Rutgers report...
Alumni Career Panel gives students perspectives on trends, challenges and opportunities in transportation policy and planning
One of the Bloustein School’s greatest strengths is its extensive alumni network. Recently four alumni returned to the school in an Alumni Career Panel, offered by the Office of Student and Academic Services to give current students their perspectives on the trends,...
"Parking rock star" Donald Shoup entertains, informs audience on the realities of "free" parking in the U.S.
Donald Shoup may not be a household name to the everyday citizen, but his field of study is one that everyone has an opinion about—parking. Described as a “parking rock star” in urban planning circles, the UCLA professor entertained over 100 attendees at the 2015 Alan...
Donald Shoup to present annual VTC Distinguished Lecture, October 1
Donald Shoup, Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles will present the 2015 Alan M. Voorhees Distinguished Lecture, "The High Cost of Free Parking," on Thursday, October 1 at 5:30 p.m. at the Special Events...
Access to public transportation is key for returning military veterans with disability in achieving reintegration success
Access to reliable transportation, particularly public transportation, is essential for returning military veterans with disabilities to reintegrate to civilian life and obtain critical medical and support services, according to a new Rutgers study. The research,...