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.
Regulation of the taxi and limousine industry has not kept pace with the rapid transformation of the for-hire vehicle market. While Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) typically operate under flexible, statewide frameworks, taxis and limousines are governed by state or locally imposed rules that may be outdated, fragmented, or overly restrictive. These disparities create structural disadvantages that hinder competition, suppress innovation, and reduce service quality for riders and drivers alike.
Every four years, the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) releases an independent, non-partisan report analyzing the transportation policy positions of New York City’s mayoral candidates. The report is part of a long-standing effort to help voters understand where candidates stand on key mobility issues, from public transit and street safety to taxi, for-hire vehicle, and freight regulation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
