Skip to content

Studies & Reports

September 2009
Thu 3: More People, Less Driving: The Imperative of Curbing Sprawl 29
August 2009
Tue 25: Report: Cops Can Measure Traffic Violations, If They Try 11
July 2009
Mon 6: New Report on Roads Uses Old Assumptions 5
April 2009
Wed 22: Bikes as Transit: New Study Envisions Possibilities for NYC 30
March 2009
Fri 13: TA Urges DOT to Expand Safe Streets for Seniors 7
February 2009
Fri 6: Commute Times in Weiner Land Lag as Bus Ridership Booms 14
January 2009
Thu 8: Quick Impressions of the MTA's Sustainability Report 7
December 2008
Wed 10: Manhattan Streets Especially Deadly for Seniors 9
November 2008
Thu 20: Report: Good Transit and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand 1
Wed 19: Study Finds Cyclists Need Safer Streets 35
Mon 17: Jan Gehl: New York Could Have World's Best Streets 6
October 2008
Fri 31: NYC Bike Counts Jump 35 Percent 19
Tue 28: Why Americans Bike and Walk -- Or Don't 0
Tue 28: TSTC Names the Most Dangerous Roads for Pedestrians 12
Fri 24: The Case for Active Transportation, by the Numbers 3
Fri 17: Report: American Cities Raring to Build $248B in Transit Projects 0
Thu 16: In New Report, RPA Reinforces Link Between Transit and Growth 10
Wed 15: Study: City Residential Parking Requirements Lead to More Driving 49
Tue 14: How Clean Is Your Commute? 30
Tue 14: Plenty of Changes Underway on Chrystie and Forsyth (But No Cycle Track) 9
Thu 9: Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf 3
Wed 8: Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists 7
September 2008
Thu 18: Brookings: Feds Should Stop Giving Transit Projects the Run-Around 4
Mon 15: What If a Rep From NYC Chaired the Assembly Transpo Committee? 5
August 2008
Wed 27: Pew Poll: Most Americans Want More Transit Investment 5
Wed 13: Congestion Costs Chicago $7.3 Billion Per Year 4
Thu 7: A Citywide Prescription for Livable Streets 2
July 2008
Thu 31: Measuring the Value of Livable Streets 2
Thu 24: T.A. Urges Bloomberg Admin to Take the Lead in Parking Reform 7
Thu 24: Making Safer Intersections the Rule, Not the Exception 7
Tue 22: Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America 36
Thu 3: Rider Report: Select Bus Service Shaves Trip Time 16
Wed 2: Will Brodsky and Assembly Dems Back Up Their Enforcement Bluster? 2
June 2008
Fri 20: New Study Shows City Can Reduce Congestion Through Parking Policy 8
Thu 12: T.A.: Car-Free Central Park Would Ease Neighborhood Congestion 24
March 2008
Fri 7: Share Your Experience as a New York Bicycle Commuter 0
February 2008
Wed 20: We Are Breathing Oil in Our Big Cities 4
January 2008
Thu 10: Bridge Toll Plan Headlines Congestion Commission Report 39
Wed 9: A Q&A With Ted Kheel, Free Transit Advocate 40
December 2007
Tue 18: Kheel Plan: Double the Congestion Charge & Make Transit Free 35
Mon 17: City Pedestrian Crossings Are Discriminatory by Design 13
September 2007
Fri 28: Portland Sees Explosive Growth in Bicycling 21
Tue 25: Traffic Mitigation Commission Meeting Pre-Spin 7
August 2007
Thu 23: Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York 7
Mon 20: The Urban Transportation Report Card 7
July 2007
Fri 27: Dying to Get to Work 11
Mon 23: Safety First? True Once, but U.S. Now Lags in Road Deaths 13
Wed 11: Brodsky Attacks Critics of His Congestion Pricing Study 41
Wed 11: London Releases Its Fifth Annual Congestion Pricing Study 2
June 2007
Wed 27: Addicted To Oil: Ranking States’ Vulnerability 3
Wed 20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20
May 2007
Thu 31: Weird Science: Do Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists? 16
Wed 30: Motor Vehicles Leading Cause of NYC Child Injury Deaths 0
Wed 30: The 'Burbs: Extremely Safe or Especially Dangerous? 12
Tue 29: How Many New Yorkers Actually Commute to the CBD by Auto? 8
Wed 23: Debunking the Attack on Congestion Pricing 2
Fri 11: PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit" 3
Thu 10: Where Do New York City Bike Commuters Come From? 17
Thu 3: The Benefits of a "Road Diet." 1
Tue 1: PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report 7
April 2007
Tue 17: City and State Pedestrian Safety Numbers Don't Add Up 3
Fri 6: Resolved: More Traffic Congestion & Automobile Dependence 7
Thu 5: Support Builds for Carbon Taxes Over "Cap and Trade" 3
March 2007
Mon 26: City Council Fiddles While New York City Chokes on Traffic 27
Thu 22: Studies Refute DOT's Claim That One-Way Avenues Are Safer 5
Fri 9: City Finally Finishes Eight-Year-Long Truck Study 5
Wed 7: $100 for a Year's Worth of Parking 25
February 2007
Fri 23: New York Could be a Global Leader in Alternative Energy 6
Fri 16: Traffic, Pedestrian Fatalities Rise in New Jersey 0
Thu 15: Living Near Shops and Transit Makes New Yorkers Less Fat 12
Mon 12: Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa® 28
Fri 9: The Subway Should Be Free 32
January 2007
Tue 23: Teaching City Gov't to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks 5
Fri 12: The Times is a Changin' 22
Thu 11: Public Health and Livable Streets: Making the Connection 5
December 2006
Thu 14: Streetfilms: Curbing Cars in Soho 6
Thu 14: Rethinking Soho 47
Fri 8: Where Do Manhattan Auto Commuters Come From? 26
Thu 7: Three Concrete Proposals for New York City Traffic Relief 15
Thu 7: A Snapshot of New York City Gridlock 5
Tue 5: Traffic Congestion: Sponsored by Your Local Media 7
Mon 4: Growth or Gridlock? 13
Mon 4: It's Traffic Congestion Week in New York City 0
November 2006
Mon 27: 45% of New Yorkers Receptive to a Congestion Charge 30
Thu 16: NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride 18
Tue 14: Designing the Ideal Taxi Stand for New York City 9
Mon 13: London's Cycling Design Standards: A Model for NYC? 11
Thu 2: Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons 1
October 2006
Thu 26: The Bronx is Burning Bicycling 3
Fri 6: Creating Great Public Spaces in New York City 0
Fri 6: Traffic's Human Toll 0
Wed 4: Tomorrow, Special Event: What is Traffic's Human Toll? 1
Tue 3: Traffic's Human Toll 0
September 2006
Thu 14: The Three Big Bicyclist Fatality Clusters 7
Thu 14: U.K. Study Finds Wearing a Bike Helmet May be More Dangerous 8
Thu 14: Digging in: How Many Crashes Are Due to "Bicycle Factors?" 5
August 2006
Wed 16: Sneak Preview of Bloomberg's 21st Century Urban Vision 16
Wed 9: Report Calls for Radical Rethink of New York Area Planning 6
Mon 7: Poll: NYC Blames Bloomberg for Failure to Deal With Traffic 10
June 2006
Mon 26: EcoPolis: Envisioning the City of the Future 0