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Celebrating 25 Years of Alan Voorhees’ Impact on Global Transportation Planning Issues

September 1, 2025

The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) was seeking a way to highlight Alan Voorhees’ impact on national and global transportation planning issues. The Alan M. Voorhees Legacy Project provided the path forward.

Since 1988, VTC has been a leader in informing public discussion of transportation policy issues. Committed to conducting research and finding innovative approaches to transportation problems, VTC’s research identifies and explores transportation linkages to public policy areas such as economic development, land use, political governance, finance, and social policy.

NJSPL – Rethinking Complete Streets

December 1, 2023

In January 2023, Governor Phil Murphy directed the NJ DOT to update its Complete Streets policy to include design practices for neurodivergent people, including those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or intellectual and development disabilities.

VTC 25th Anniversary: Celebrating a Visionary with an Update on a New Hudson River Rail Tunnel

May 16, 2023

by Philip Plotch for Eno Center for Transportation, May 12, 2023 The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center celebrated its 25th anniversary this month with remembrances of a transportation visionary along with an update on the Gateway Program (one...

When it’s time to stop driving, how can seniors get around car-centric New Jersey?

March 14, 2023

As part of its ongoing series “Aging in New Jersey,” NorthJersey.com and the USA Today Network New Jersey today examine how New Jersey seniors struggle to give up their car keys even when it's clear they no longer can drive safely — in a state that doesn’t make it...

TRB AMS50 Webinar 2/10/23: Telecommuting in the Pandemic Era

February 6, 2023

Join VTC’s Hannah Younes, PhD and University of Minnesota’s Xinyi Qian, PhD for this TRB AMS50 Webinar on Friday, February 10th from 10-11am.

Educating and Enhancing Transportation Officials: The National Transit Institute

May 4, 2022

Billy Terry of the National Transit Institute joins Stuart Shapiro on EJB Talks to discuss NTI’s mission to educate the administrative workforce within the multitudes of transit agencies across the nation.

The Voorhees Transportation Center: A Leader in Transportation Research, Education and Training

February 10, 2022

VTC’s core strengths relate to transportation in the built environment and its work in transit-oriented development, pedestrian and bicycle mobility and safety, healthy community design, smart growth, and transportation and social equity.

Final Port Authority Centennial Symposium to be held December 7

November 18, 2021

This event will bring together public, private, non-profit sector leaders and academics to consider the issues and opportunities that will shape the future of the New Jersey-New York metropolitan region.

Victims of traffic fatalities are disproportionately Black and Native

June 28, 2021

Charles T. Brown, Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and President and CEO of Equitable Cities, assesses the rise in traffic fatalities in an MSNBC interview. A 2021 report from Smart Growth America showed...

Traffic deaths increased during the pandemic. The toll fell more heavily on Black residents, report shows

June 24, 2021

A new study released Tuesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) highlights the disparities. It analyzed data from 2015 to 2019 and found that in different types of traffic crashes, Black people were killed at higher rates than White people. Black...

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Celebrating 25 Years of Alan Voorhees’ Impact on Global Transportation Planning Issues

NJSPL – Rethinking Complete Streets

VTC 25th Anniversary: Celebrating a Visionary with an Update on a New Hudson River Rail Tunnel

When it’s time to stop driving, how can seniors get around car-centric New Jersey?

TRB AMS50 Webinar 2/10/23: Telecommuting in the Pandemic Era

Educating and Enhancing Transportation Officials: The National Transit Institute

Final Port Authority Centennial Symposium to be held December 7

Victims of traffic fatalities are disproportionately Black and Native

Traffic deaths increased during the pandemic. The toll fell more heavily on Black residents, report shows

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