The Transit Friendly Data App
NJ TRANSIT & VTC present version 2.0 of the Transit Friendly Data App!
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NJTOD Videos
Retail and Redevelopment: Attract and Retain Local Businesses in Your Downtown
The TOD in Your Downtown Forum Series presented “Retail and Redevelopment: Attract and Retain Local Businesses in Your Downtown” on May 18, 2023. Experts discussed best practices for enhancing downtown areas.
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Dollars and Sense: Financing TOD
This event, hosted by the NJTOD.org, Downtown New Jersey, and NJ TRANSIT’s Transit Friend Planning (TFP) program, will bring together a panel of experts from public, private, and non-profit entities to discuss their experiences with available financing tools and how they are used in transit-oriented development.
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NJTOD.org—NJT and RU-VTC, Partners Promoting Transit Friendly Planning
Learn more about NJTOD.org, a partnership between NJ TRANSIT’s Transit Friendly Planning and Rutgers’ Voorhees Transportation Center.
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The Importance of Public Involvement in TOD Planning
This week’s video features Tom Schulze. Mr. Schulze draws upon 40 years of experience in city planning and discusses the importance of involving the public in the planning for TOD.
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Planners Living in TOD
This week we feature two videos! Andrew Lappitt is Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz. Leigh Ann Von Hagen is Senior Researcher & Adjunct Professor at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University. Both are planners and each is a resident of a designated New Jersey Transit Village, Rahway and Netcong, respectively.
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Matt Ward: Engaging the Public on TOD
This week’s video features Matt Ward. Mr. Ward is Senior Planner for the City of Jersey City, New Jersey. Mr. Ward discusses the benefits and challenges of engaging the public on TOD.
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Vinn White on How TOD Opportunities Help NJ Meet Its Goals
This week’s video features Vinn White. Mr. White is Senor Policy Advisory to Governor Murphy, working in the area of transportation. Earlier in his career, he served in the US Department of Transportation under Secretary Ray LaHood and Secretary Anthony Foxx. Mr. White discusses the opportunities offered through TOD.
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Phil Abramson: The Key to Transit-Oriented Development
This week we feature our chat with Phil Abramson. In 2014 Mr. Abramson founded Topology, a real estate consulting firm that offers urban planning, development and project management. Mr. Abramson discusses one specific challenge to TOD, providing good transit.
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What Makes a TOD Community Work: Kim Avant-Babb
Ms. Avant-Babb is Chief Strategy Officer at the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority (NJRA), an independent financing authority created by the State of New Jersey to transform urban communities through direct investment and technical support. Ms. Avant-Babb discusses the characteristics that make TOD communities work.
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