Alan M Voorhees Transportation Center

Name: Robert B. Noland
Title: Director
Room: 449
Phone: 848-932-2859
Email: rnoland@rutgers.edu
Website: http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/noland/

Robert B. Noland is a Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and serves as the Director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center. He received his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Energy Management and Environmental Policy. Prior to joining Rutgers University he was Reader in Transport and Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, a Policy Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency and also conducted post-doctoral research in the Economics Department at the University of California at Irvine. The focus of Dr. Noland's research is the impacts of transport planning and policy on both economic and environmental outcomes. Work on economic effects has included examining behavioral reactions to changes in reliability, associations with the built environment, and trip chaining behavior. Environmental work includes impacts on safety, climate, health, and other factors associated with overall quality of life. Active research areas include developing methods to evaluate the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with building transport projects; evaluating the economic impacts of transit-oriented development; analysis of walking behavior and links to other travel behavior and the built environment; analysis of traffic and pedestrian safety using spatial analysis techniques; and, assessment of the economic effects of transport investments, in particular those associated with agglomeration externalities. Dr. Noland's research has been cited throughout the world in debates over transport infrastructure planning and environmental assessment of new infrastructure. Dr. Noland is currently the Associate Editor of Transportation Research-D (Transport and Environment) and the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and is Chair of the Transportation Research Board Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy.

Name: Jon A. Carnegie, AICP/PP
Title: Executive Director
Room: 442
Phone: 848-932-2840
Email: carnegie@rci.rutgers.edu

Jon A. Carnegie, AICP/PP, is executive director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and an adjunct member of the faculty at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Mr. Carnegie has more than 18 years of experience in the fields of land use and transportation planning and policy at the municipal, county and regional level. He has been or currently serves as the principal investigator for a variety of research and planning projects involving a range of transportation policy topics. His experience includes managing research projects involving transit-oriented development; the relationship between land use and transportation; long-range vision planning; transportation capital finance; transportation equity; driver's licensing; workforce transportation options for low-income individuals and persons with disabilities; senior mobility; as well as transport security, emergency management and evacuation planning.

In addition, in 2007, Mr. Carnegie was the lead instructor for six deliveries of the National Transit Institute's (NTI) Land Use and Transportation course around the United States. He also recently led the development of new NTI course on transit-oriented and joint development for the Federal Transit Administration. Mr. Carneg

Name: David Aimen
Title: Assistant Director of Planning and Technical Assistance
Room: 448
Phone: 848-932-2855
Email: david.aimen@rutgers.edu

David Aimen, AICP/PP, is the Assistant Director for Planning and Technical Assistance. Mr. Aimen has 26 years of experience, primarily as a private sector consultant, managing and researching studies on planning and economics topics including transportation policy, market research, demand forecasting, economic and fiscal analysis, socioeconomic impact assessment, and strategic economic development. In recent years, Mr. Aimen has provided technical advisory services for policy, planning and development projects focusing on Title VI, environmental justice, and the socioeconomic impacts of transportation. This work has been undertaken for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), metropolitan planning organizations, state transportation departments, and transit agencies. He recently served as the Principal Investigator for Practical Approaches for Involving Traditionally Underserved Populations in Transportation Decisionmaking, funded under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), which presents a toolkit of case studies, effective practices, tools and techniques, and data sources relevant to public and private sector practitioners at each stage of transportation decisionmaking. Currently, he serves on the project management team of the North Jersey Sustainable Communities Consortium, funded through a HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning grant and other leveraged and matching funds, to prepare a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development for the 13-county planning region in Northern New Jersey. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Environmental Justice in Transportation Committee. Mr. Aimen received a B.A. with degrees in Sociology and Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from Rutgers University.

Name: Devajyoti Deka, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Director of Research
Room: 456
Phone: 848-932-2875
Email: ddeka@rci.rutgers.edu

Dr. Deka assists in the implementation of the center's overall research program, serves as the principal or co-principal investigator of research studies, and supervises the center's research staff. He has more than 15 years of experience in transportation planning and research. He worked previously for consulting firms, university planning programs, and a leading metropolitan planning organization of the country. At VTC, he has led several research studies as the principal investigator and supervised researchers on many other projects. His research expertise includes applied quantitative methods, regional transportation policy, public transportation, transportation equity, emergency evacuation, safety and security, bicycling and pedestrian planning, and transportation for persons with disability. Prior to joining VTC, he managed projects on regional capital investment policies, regional transportation need and strategy assessment, and environmental justice for the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. He began his career as a transportation modeler and spent a year with the FTA as an Eisenhower Research Fellow. He earned a Ph.D. in Planning from the University of Southern California; a master's degree in Urban Planning from McGill University, Canada; and a master's degree in Regional Planning from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Name: Charles Brown
Title: Senior Research Specialist
Room: 446
Phone: 848-932-2846
Email: charles.brown@ejb.rutgers.edu

Mr. Brown joined the Voorhees Transportation Center in February 2011 to manage the New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center. Mr. Brown has over 10 years of public and private experience in the field of transportation, and his experience includes transportation planning, engineering and design, multi-modal planning, bicycle and pedestrian planning, geographical information systems, and community outreach and training. Mr. Brown received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Belhaven University (formerly Belhaven College) and Master of Science Degree from the University of Central Florida. Mr. Brown served six years in the Mississippi Army National Guard and is a recipient of the Mississippi Commendation Medal and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

Name: Stephanie DiPetrillo
Title: Senior Research Specialist
Room: 454
Phone: 848-932-2872
Email: sdipetrillo@ejb.rutgers.edu

Stephanie DiPetrillo brings a distinctive set of experiences to the center, including a background in historic preservation, architecture, urban design, and planning. While at VTC, her research has focused primarily on the interface between transportation and land use and has included projects examining the benefits and barriers to transit-oriented development, the costs of sprawl, and the transportation energy demands associated with different settlement patterns. She edits the NJ TRANSIT-sponsored Transit-Friendly Development Newsletter, directing the publication's research, content, and website design. She has taught at Hofstra University, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Ms. DiPetrillo holds a B.A. degree in Economics and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as well as a Master of Architecture from NJIT.

Name: Andrea Lubin
Title: Senior Research Specialist
Room: 452
Phone: 848-932-2861
Email: annlubin@rci.rutgers.edu

Ms. Lubin joined the Voorhees Transportation Center in 2001 and has over 7 years experience in transportation policy analysis and research. Ms. Lubin's recent efforts include development and management of activities related to a number of key initiatives focused on improving access to transportation for transportation disadvantaged populations, including people with disabilities and senior citizens. She is also actively involved with the Center's New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Project and is a key member on research teams investigating a variety of transportation policy topics, including transportation equity and driver licensing. Ms. Lubin received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Tufts University in 1997 and a Master's of Science Degree in Public Policy from the Eagleton Institute / Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in 1999.

Name: Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP
Title: Senior Research Specialist
Room: 447
Phone: 848-932-2854
Email: lavh@rci.rutgers.edu

Ms. Von Hagen joined VTC in July 2004 to work on the NJ Pedestrian and Bicycle Resource Project. Ms. Von Hagen came from The RBA Group in Morristown, NJ, where she served as project manager for the "Safe Routes to School" program for New Jersey. Previously, she worked in the Bicycle and Pedestrian Group of Urbitran Associates, Inc., and was a transportation planner at Louis Berger & Associates, Inc. Ms. Von Hagen received her Bachelor of Science degree from Cook College at Rutgers.

Name: Ryan A.G. Whytlaw
Title: Senior Research Specialist
Room: 445
Phone: 848-932-2845
Email: rwhytlaw@rci.rutgers.edu

Mr. Whytlaw joined the VTC staff in June 2009 and works on a variety of emergency management and security projects relating to transportation. His current efforts focus on evacuation planning. Mr. Whytlaw has over four years experience in both the non-profit and private sector working on emergency management objectives. He received a Master of Public Policy degree from George Mason University's School of Public Policy in January 2008. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History from Albright College in 2004.

Name: Betsy Harvey
Title: Project Coordinator
Room: 453
Phone: 848-932-2361
Email: ebharvey@ejb.rutgers.edu

Betsy Harvey is a project coordinator at the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University. She joined the staff in July 2012 and is involved with a number of projects on transit-oriented development, including writing and publishing the Transit-Friendly Development Newsletter. She received an M.A. in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University in 2012 and a B.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire in 2009.

Name: Sean Meehan
Title: Project Coordinator
Room: 450
Phone: 848-932-2860
Email: smeehan@ejb.rutgers.edu

Mr. Meehan joined the staff at VTC in January 2008 and works in the area of pedestrian and bicycle mobility and safety. He is a graduate of the Bloustein School, receiving a Master of City and Regional Planning in May 2007 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Cook College in 2002. In addition to completing his MCRP degree, Sean worked for the past five years as transportation planner and program coordinator for Keep Middlesex Moving transportation management association based in New Brunswick, NJ.

Name: Nicholas K. Tulach
Title: Project Coordinator
Room: 491
Phone: 848-932-2891
Email: nicholas.tulach@rutgers.edu

Nicholas Tulach is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University. Nicholas has worked with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center since 2006 and joined the staff full-time in 2011. He received a Masters in Urban Planning with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2006 and was awarded the ASCP Outstanding Student award that same year. His research interests include transportation finance, politics, and institutional responses to crises. Nicholas has participated in a variety of projects incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods, including recent work on the agglomeration impacts of recent transit investment for the Transportation Cooperative Research Program. His skills also include extensive experience in computer programming, statistical analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS). Nicholas is a past recipient of the September 11th Memorial Fellowship and the Transportation Coordinating Council/Federal Transit Administration Fellowship. He is a member of the Planner's Network and the Association of American Geographers.

Name: Karen J. Alexander
Title: Managing Director
Room: 464
Phone:
Email: karen.alexander@njtip.rutgers.edu

As Managing Director of NJTIP @ Rutgers, Karen Alexander leads a team of professionals dedicated to increasing mobility for seniors and people with disabilities across New Jersey. Her prior positions at the Wilf Campus for Senior Living, and at the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, focused on helping older adults live longer in their own communities. Major projects included LIVE – Lifelong Involvement for Vital Elders, an aging-in-place program that reached over 1,800 seniors monthly in three NJ towns; On The Go!, senior mobility workshops with transit field trips and pedestrian outings, and a recent study for the Partners for Health Foundation entitled, "How Can We Help Older Residents of Montclair Age in Place?" Prior to moving to New Jersey, her career focused on senior mobility and accessible transportation, with positions at NJ TRANSIT, NYC Transit, Urbitran and Access-A-Ride. Ms. Alexander is certified as an Assisted Living Administrator by the State of New Jersey and holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Aging from Hunter College. She earned her Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from UCLA.

Name: Melody Bundy
Title: Training Coordinator
Room: 477
Phone:
Email: melody.bundy@njtip.rutgers.edu
Melody Bundy has been a travel instructor with NJTIP since 2009 and became a program manager in 2010. Melody joined VTC as a training coordinator in 2013. She specializes in In-School Travel Instruction. Additionally, Ms. Bundy currently manages New Freedom Travel Instruction in Hudson and Passaic County, consisting of small group instruction, Connect to Transit seminars, and One-on-One Travel Instruction. Her work at NJTIP involves collaborating with various stakeholders including local government/counties, transportation management associations, and nonprofit organizations.

Ms. Bundy is currently studying at Capella University to receive her Master's in Public Administration.

Name: Douglas Gilbert
Title: Training Coordinator
Room: 477
Phone:
Email: d.gilbert@njtip.rutgers.edu

Douglas Gilbert has been a travel coordinator with NJTIP since 2006 and joined VTC as a training coordinator in 2013. His primary responsibilities focus on coordinating marketing for the NJTIP one-on-one Travel Training program and conducting professional outreach on behalf of NJTIP. He also contributes to group travel orientation programs for high school students and senior citizens, participates in a variety of NJTIP research initiatives, and directs contracts with various public and private schools. Mr. Gilbert received an M.A. in Labor & Industrial Relations from SMLR Rutgers University in 1992 and a B.A. in Labor Studies from Rutgers College, Rutgers University in 1990.

Name: Louis Hoffman
Title: Training Coordinator
Room: 477
Phone:
Email: louhoff@njtip.rutgers.edu

Louis Hoffman has been a travel instructor with NJTIP since 2008 and became a project manager in 2011. Louis joined VTC as a training coordinator in 2013. He specializes in group travel instruction programs for older adults and people with disabilities and Connect to Transit programming for professionals. Mr. Hoffman currently manages Job Access Travel Instruction in Union County. He has also partnered with VTC researchers to develop the Connect to Transit initiative for vocational rehabilitation professionals and to formalize a process to conduct environmental barrier analysis for people with disabilities using transit. His work at NJTIP often involves partnering with a diversity of stakeholders including local government/counties, transportation management associations, and nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Hoffman is currently studying at the School of Social Work at Rutgers and has completed a field placement at Daughters of Israel in West Orange. He has been a board member of the Association of Travel Instruction since 2010 and has served as board secretary since 2012.

Name: Larry Lindstrom
Title: Training Coordinator
Room: 477
Phone:
Email: larry.lindstrom@njtip.rutgers.edu

Larry Lindstrom came to NJTIP in 2006 and worked on the NJ TRANSIT pilot program for travel training. He became a senior travel instructor with the organization in 2007. He joined VTC as a training coordinator in 2013. Mr. Lindstrom specializes in one-on-one travel instruction, teaching persons with disabilities and others how to safely and independently utilize public transit. He also contributes to NJTIP's group travel trainings and often represents NJTIP at various transportation seminars/outreach events.

Mr. Lindstrom graduated from Rutgers University in 1977 with a B.A. in Economics and has a diverse employment history that includes working for Kraft General Foods, serving as a toll plaza supervisor for the Florida Department of Transportation, and working as a special education teacher in both Jersey City and Florida. Mr. Lindstrom is a member of the National Stuttering Association and Speak Easy support groups for people who stutter.

Name: Nieves G. Pimienta
Title: Training Coordinator
Room: 477
Phone:
Email: nieves.pimienta@njtip.rutgers.edu

Nieves G. Pimienta joined VTC in 2013 as a training coordinator. Ms. Pimienta teaches persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and other transportation disadvantaged individuals to travel safely and independently using public transportation. As part of her duties she evaluates individual travel goals and develops and implements Travel Instruction Plans for customers. Ms. Pimienta has a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico and is currently pursuing her Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies-Rutgers (MALS) with a concentration in Public Policy and Sociology. Her previous employment experience focused on communications, working for the North Jersey Media Group as a marketing manager for The Record and The Herald News newspapers and advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and McCann Erickson. Ms. Pimienta has also been teaching English as a second language (ESL) and civics to adult students since 2009.

Name: Chris Hanson, Ph.D.
Title: Research Associate
Room: 486
Phone: 848-932-2862
Email: cshanson@ejb.rutgers.edu

Chris Hanson joined the Voorhees Transportation Center in 2009 as a Post Doctoral Research Associate to work on the center's Carbon Footprint Project. Through his efforts this project has developed a methodology for estimating the global warming potential of transportation capital projects for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. His accomplishments include identifying and implementing a model that estimates upstream and direct emissions for process fuels, aggregate, electricity, asphalt, concrete, galvanized and ungalvanized steel, plastics and paint. A heating model was developed for asphalt, which allows estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from warm mix and hot mix asphalt. Upstream emissions for process fuels and asphalt binder were estimated from the GREET model developed at Argonne National Laboratory. Direct emissions from equipment were estimated from EPA's NONROAD model. The project has produced an Excel-based sketch planning tool. Extensive use was made of student labor, supervised by Dr. Hanson. Through this work highway and rail construction models were produced.

Chris Hanson received his Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from the Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in 2007. He has also received a M.A. in Geography from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 2001, and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Delaware in 1978. His research interests include emissions modeling, evaluation and outcomes analysis and transportation and health policy. He has worked as a research scientist, data consultant and policy analyst on a variety of public policy research topics. He is a past recipient of the NJ Commission on Cancer Research, Cancer Policy Graduate Fellowship and is a current member of the American Planning Association and the Association of American Geographers. His work has included analytical epidemiology and GIS studies including spatial statistics for cancer epidemiology, and other public health concerns. He has used qualitative methods including surveys, grounded theory and others to address practices surrounding various policy issues including funding of medical research, and service delivery.

Name: Kaan Özbay
Title: Professor and Research Associate, VTC; Director of RITS Lab
Room: CAIT 116/CoRE
Email: kaan@rci.rutgers.edu
Website: http://www.rits.rutgers.edu/

Kaan M.A. Özbay is a tenured full Professor at the Rutgers University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the founding director of the Rutgers Intelligent Transportation Systems (RITS) laboratory which was established in 1997 with a seed funding from UTRC at CUNY and Rutgers University. RITS laboratory currently leads Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) research and education activities at Rutgers University. Dr. Özbay's research interest in transportation covers modeling and deployment of incident and emergency management operations, real-time control techniques for traffic, field evaluation of advanced ITS technology applications, application of operations research techniques in large scale transportation network optimization with an emphasis on evacuation and humanitarian logistics, transportation economics, and development of mathematical models for traffic safety and operation problems.

Dr. Özbay is the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Dr. Özbay is the co-author of Feedback Based Ramp Metering for Intelligent Transportation Systems published by Kluwer Academics in 2004. In addition, he is the co-author of Feedback Control Theory for Dynamic Traffic Assignment, Springer-Verlag and Incident Management for Intelligent Transportation Systems published by Artech House publishers in 1999. Dr. Ozbay has published more than 200 refereed papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings. Professor Ozbay serves as the Associate Editor of Networks and Spatial Economic journal and is a member of the editorial board of the ITS journal.

Name: Martin E. Robins
Title: Director Emeritus
Room: off site
Email: merobins@rci.rutgers.edu

The founding director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, Mr. Robins has over 30 years of experience in transportation planning and policy. Mr. Robins conceptualizes and implements a program of policy research and public forums on transportation-related issues affecting New Jersey, the Northeast and the nation. He provides guidance on major investment transportation projects and policy issues, and has experience planning and implementing light rail systems and major capital investments in passenger rail service. From 1994 to 1998, he served as project director of Access to the Region's Core, a multi-agency planning partnership examining the need for a new rail tunnel between northern New Jersey and midtown Manhattan; prior to that, he was director of NJ TRANSIT's Waterfront Transportation Office, which planned the Hudson-Bergen light rail line, director of the Port Authority's Planning & Development Department, and Deputy Executive Director of NJ TRANSIT.

Name: John Pucher
Title: Professor and Research Associate, VTC
Room: 363
Email: pucher@rci.rutgers.edu
Website: http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher/

For over three decades, Professor Pucher has examined differences in travel behavior, transport systems, and transport policies in Europe, Canada, and the USA, resulting in over a hundred published articles, book chapters, and conference papers. In recent years, his research has focused on walking and bicycling. In particular, he is interested in strategies to improve the safety and convenience of walking and cycling, and thus to increase levels of physical activity through practical, daily travel.