This report is a close analysis of electric vehicle (EV) adoption within Worcester County's sixty municipalities. In 2025, according to the International Energy Agency, 25% of all vehicles sold worldwide were either battery electric or plug-in hybrids. In Worcester County, the number of battery electric and plug-in hybrid registrations (together, "zero-emissions" as defined by the Massachusetts Vehicle Census, or MVC) grew from 0.44% of all vehicles in January 2021 to 2.21% of all vehicles in January 2026. While the number of registered zero-emissions vehicles remains low in Worcester County, it is growing.

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The Promises of the Worcester/Framingham Line follows The Research Bureau’s previous work from June 2025, Express for Whom? Ridership, Recovery, and the Importance of the Worcester/Framingham Line. Underscoring the possibilities of this regional rail line that runs between Worcester and Boston dozens of times a day, this report looks at the need and the vision of what that service could look like, explaining ongoing and future work that could unlock its promises.

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This report, the first in a two-part series, examines ridership on the Worcester/Framingham Line. The line is one of the most popular among the MBTA’s 13 regional rail lines. This report looks at ridership data since 2020 to piece together an understanding of who is riding the line, when, and where they might be coming from. By using ridership and station boarding data, as well as demographic data from other sources, it will provide a deep look at where the line stands today.

In Worcester's rapidly changing urban landscape, safeguarding the city's most vulnerable road users (VRU’s) — pedestrians, cyclists, and others outside of vehicles — has emerged as a pivotal concern. This report comes after recent tragedies in Worcester, leading the City Manager to declare a ‘road safety and traffic violence crisis’.

Parking is king. For as long as there have been cars, it has been a subject of conversation in Worcester. This report, Part 2 of a two part Bureau series on parking, covers the history of parking in Worcester, followed by a discussion of minimum parking requirements in the City’s zoning, as well as information about car ownership in Worcester, and an analysis of the ways that parking may impose visible and invisible costs on residents and commuters.