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How Social Media Moves New York

This report analyzes the use of social media tools by the New York region’s major transportation providers. It is focused on the effectiveness of their Twitter feeds, which were chosen for their immediacy and simplicity in messaging, and provided a common denominator for comparison between the various transportation providers considered, both public and private. Based on this analysis, recommendations are outlined for improving social media outreach.

The NYC Taxi & For-Hire Vehicle Insurance Crisis: Root Causes & Solutions

The NYC taxi and for-hire vehicle (“FHV”) insurance crisis has reached a pivotal point, driven by high insurance premiums that threaten to price-out individual drivers and fleet owners and rooted in the $700 million insolvency of the New York City taxi and FHV market’s biggest insurer, American Transit Insurance Company (“ATIC”). This report seeks to identify the root causes of the crisis and propose actionable reforms to address the industry’s challenges.

Optimum Fund Allocations to Rehabilitate Transport Infrastructure

Transportation Infrastructure in the US is in need of maintenance and rehabilitation. Preservation of road networks at an acceptable level of serviceability subject to the stringent yearly maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) budgets is a major challenge for State Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Decision-makers are required to develop an optimum financial plan to minimize the total cost of maintenance and rehabilitation for different expected improvement of the road network performance level during a given planning horizon.

Mode Shift in Transit Under-served Neighborhoods in New York

This research def ines the concept of transit under-served areas (TUSA), and argues that with the right policies TUSA residents have a great potential to reduce car dependency and usage and switch to publ i c t ransi t . It focuses on one important but often overlooked pol i cy—residential parking, in reshaping t ravel patterns in TUSA neighborhoods, using the New York Ci ty region as an example. Nine hundred households were randomly selected from a regional household travel survey in the New York City region.

Mode Shift in Transit Under-served Areas in the New York City Region

This research investigates the impact of residential parking on household travel behavior in transit under-served areas (TUSA) in the New York City region. It focuses on an important but often overlooked issue in reshaping the travel pattern in TUSA neighborhoods- residential parking. It finds that TUSA households with only on-street parking tend to have fewer cars, make fewer vehicle trips, and drive less overall VMT, compared to households with a garage.

Lighting Innovation Increases Pedestrian Safety (TR News, May-June 2010)

Scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) are developing a lighting system to increase the safety of pedestrians crossing the street at nighttime. Led by John Bullough, the researchers evaluated different crosswalk lighting systems to determine which would best illuminate the pedestrian and provide enough background contrast to increase visibility. The study was supported by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration through the University Transportation Research Center at the City University of New York.

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