There is an eye-catching paint job at the bustling intersection of S. Bridge Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard, located amid a convenience store, Detour Framing, Lunch Break and the Red Bank branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth County. The rectangular...
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Voorhees Transportation Center
Voorhees Transportation Center, NJTPA are recipients of APA National Planning Achievement Public Outreach award
The American Planning Association’s (APA) National Planning Awards annually recognize outstanding efforts in planning and planning leadership. This year, the awards committee recognized five Excellence recipients, and honored an additional 16 recipients with...
How will autonomous vehicles affect our towns and cities?
Rutgers Researcher Jon Carnegie says what he would add to the conversation is the possibility of using the technology in public transit. “There is some interesting innovation going on in places around the country, including Jacksonville, Florida and the Tampa area...
Why New Jersey’s gas tax could go up for the first time since 1988
However, Martin Robins, director emeritus of Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Policy Center, argues that gasoline taxes levied on a per-gallon basis will begin to go down when auto makers begin complying with federal requirements for higher...
Bloustein MCRP candidates Daehee Kim, Thalya Reyes receive APTF scholarships
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) students Daehee Kim and Thalya Reyes (dual MPP candidate) are the recipients of 2017 APTF Scholarships. This marks the seventh...
Two Bloustein MCRP candidates receive APTF scholarships
The American Public Transportation Foundation (APTF) recently announced that Bloustein School Masters in City and Regional Planning (MCRP) students Golda Speyer and Kelly Glenn are the recipients of 2016 APTF Scholarships. This marks the sixth straight year at least...
New study by Voorhees Transportation Center estimates cost to build and maintain NJDOT roads
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials have announced the release of a new study conducted by Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center that determined the average cost to plan, construct, operate, and maintain one mile of roadway...
Three Bloustein School students selected as Presidential Management Fellows finalists
Three Master of City and Regional Planning students from the Bloustein School – Channing Bickford, Julene Paul, and Ai Yamanaka – have been named Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) finalists by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The Presidential Management...
Roundtable Focuses on NJ's Transportation Future
In his budget address, Gov. Chris Christie swept aside claims the state’s Transportation Trust Fund is in trouble. “To imply that the TTF is in crisis and is suddenly and unexpectedly run out of money is just a politically driven mischaracterization,” he said Feb. 16....
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...
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Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Rutgers Health Commencement 2024
SHI StadiumJoin us for the 258th Anniversary Commencement at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Rutgers Health on Sunday, May 12, 2024, at SHI Stadium, starting at 10 a.m. President Jonathan Holloway will preside over […]
Bloustein School Convocation
Jersey Mike's Arena 83 Rockefeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, United StatesThe formal BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL CONVOCATION ceremony will recognize each graduate individually with pomp and circumstance. Students will cross the stage and have their names read as they are recognized. Seating is general […]
Implications of Robotics for Public Policy
VirtualThis presentation offers a systematic analysis of the emerging routes by which applications of embodied artificial intelligence—robotics—elicit public policy responses.
2024 Transit-Oriented Development Symposium
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesRegistration is now open for the 2024 TOD Symposium. This free full-day event will be held in person on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at the Edward J. Bloustein School of […]
2024 New Jersey Big Data Alliance Annual Symposium: Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Society & Higher Education
Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA) is an alliance of leading higher education institutions, government organizations and industry members that catalyzes research and collaboration in advanced computing and data […]