Dr. Allison C. de Cerreño talked to the Philadelphia Daily News about the Democratic Presidential Candidates' Transportation Policies. She said that while more infrastructure money is badly needed, throwing money at the existing system without having a clear vision will not solve the crumbling systems.
The article also mentioned the presidential forum on transportation issues, hosted by the Wagner Rudin Center at NYU in January, where experts pondered how to best invest in the nation's overall transportation system and stressed a need for more high-speed rail. Dr. C. de Cerreño pointed to Asia and Europe as areas investing in infrastructure.
The U.S. News & World Report rankings of policy schools, which come out only every three or four years, were released March 28, 2008 -- and out of 269 master's programs across the country, NYU Wagner ranks in the top 10 overall this year!
NYU Wagner Rudin Center Director Allison L. C. de Cerreño was one of the panelists at a New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Public Forum on Congestion and New York's transportation needs, held at the College of Staten Island on March 5, 2008. The session was one of several that have been held around the state to review NYSDOT's 20-Year Needs Assessment.
American Public Media's "Marketplace" interviewed NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management Director Allison C. de Cerreño about the New York Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission recommendation due January 31, 2008. She said that the commission had reviewed a variety of pricing schemes and that a final proposal was likely to call for drivers to pay higher tolls in contested areas.
Dr. Allison C. de Cerreño talked to Boston Now about Presidential Candidates' Transportation Policies. She said strategies to deal with growing cities that need new transportation systems, and old cities' crumbling systems should be identified.
Related article: Boston Now
Linda M. Spock, Visiting Practitioner at the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, has produced a new report documenting and synthesizing the experience of a dozen transit agencies that have implemented or tried to implement programmed fare increases -- those that occur on a regular and/or inflation-related basis as opposed to an "as-needed" basis. The transit agencies ranged widely in size, mission, and location, from New Jersey to the San Francisco Bay area. Often, they didn't know others' experiences with similar fare approaches. But taken together, according to the November, 2007, report, their experiences "suggest the importance of clearly communicating the need for regular fare increases to transit customers in the context of agencies' efforts to maintain service, constrain costs, and address customer needs and concerns.
"In short," the report continues, "customers appear to be willing to pay increasingly higher fares on a regular basis if they feel they clearly benefit from reliable transit service, the agency does its 'fair share' in contributing to the most efficient and cost effective operation possible, and the fare increases are small and predictable."
Ms. Spock has served as the NYU Wagner Rudin Center's Visiting Practitioner since 2001. A respected transportation expert, she played a key role in establishing E-ZPass as a regional electronic toll collection system. Following an 11-year career at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, she began her own consulting firm and has been Principal since 1994, conducting research,writing, and project coordination for individual agencies, multi-agency groups, and national and international organizations.
The Rudin Center was established in 1996 at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and named in September, 2000, in recognition of a generous gift to New York University in support of the Center. It is currently led by the Center's Director, Allison L. C. de Cerreno, Ph.D. Its mission is to provide the tools for strengthening institutions and leadership within and across all modes of transportation, and for encouraging innovative thinking, discourse, and action on urban transportation policy, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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After heavy rain delayed New York City's subway network on Aug. 8, 2007, Dr. Allison C. de Cerreño, Director of NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, spoke with Newsweek's Sarah Kliff about the issues facing New York City's public transit system, how to prevent future situations like this, and what this type of event says about the broader, national public transportation system.
Citing the challenge of falling tax revenue and growing costs, NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Policy and Management Director Allison C. de Cerreño said in an interview with Bloomberg News that a fare increase is necessary. She suggested that future increases take place according to a regular schedule.
"Whether it's this year or next year, at some point they are going to have to raise fares,'' she said in the article published July 25, 2007. ``It's going to be helpful if they can find a way to raise fares on a more regular basis.''
New York's MTA announced plans to increasethe transit fare to close the budget gap of about $965 million on July 25.