This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the negative impacts that the proliferation of Transportation Network Companies (“TNCs”) have had on people with disabilities, underserved communities, the environment, social responsibility, and the sharing economy.

This report endeavors to identify and convey best and accepted practices for managing commercial ground transportation at airports during construction and redevelopment projects, including when the construction phase is complete and the project is finished, with specific attention to the redevelopment of John F. Kennedy International Airport (“JFK Airport”) in New York City.

There are three principal types of equity considerations that relate to the distribution of benefits and burdens of congestion pricing: (1) income equity, (2) geographic equity, and (3) modal equity. This report attempts to look at first two, with a specific focus on taxi and for-hire vehicle (“FHV”) services. The benefits and burden of the proposed Central Business District (“CBD”) Tolling Program—commonly referred to as congestion pricing—may not be distributed equally among all drivers and passengers of taxi and FHV services. There are several key findings from this report.

UTRC assembled a Transportation Policy Advisory Committee for the upcoming 2021 NYC Election and just released a report summarizing candidates’ positions on transportation issues. 

Development of a biological control program for invasive Phagmites australis australis in North America required 20 years of careful research, and consideration of management alternatives. A recent paper by Kiviat et al. (Biol Invasions 21:2529–2541, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530- 019-02014-9) articulates opposition to this biocontrol program and questions the ethics and thoroughness of the researchers. Here we address inaccuracies and misleading statements presented in Kiviat et al.

A tragic limousine crash took the lives of 20 people in Schoharie, New York, in 2018. As the small town mourns the loss of life from one of the deadliest transportation disasters in almost a decade, policy makers across the United States may be reexamining the regulations surrounding stretch limousines to ensure more uniform and heightened safety laws and protocols are in place. This article will explore the implications of this high-profile

The bridge collapse in Minnesota is a wake up call for us in terms of how invest in our bridges. In the wake of tragedy, we are all trying to find bridges that may be deficient. This may be an increased loss of resources that may be used to inspect our bridges in planned way.

The Governor of the State of New Jersey, Jon Corzine in his State of the State Address on January 8, 2008 proposed a major set of initiative to solve the general financial problems of the state. A key component of that proposal was a monetization proposal for a number of existing toll roads in the state as well as the addition of tolls to a five mile segment of an existing highway. The core of this proposal is the transfer of control of the toll roads to a public benefit corporation using a concession agreement.