Transportation Research Board Awards Sandi Rosenbloom the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship
Honoring more than fifty years of significant career contributions to transportation research, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) has awarded Dr. Sandi Rosenbloom with the 2025 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship.
Rosenbloom is a research professor in the School of Architecture’s Community and Regional Planning program, director of the Lab for Safe and Health Aging and a Fellow of Hampton K. and Margaret Frye Snell Endowed Chair in Transportation. Her trailblazing research over the years has addressed pressing transportation issues to advance our understanding of urban mobility and transportation equity.
The TRB — a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — awards the Deen Lectureship each year to an individual who has made significant career contributions and achievements and invites them to present overviews of their area of expertise. On January 6, 2025, Rosenbloom will deliver her lecture, “How Little We Really Know: The Unrecognized Centrality of Marginal Groups in Transportation Planning and Policy,” at the TRB Annual Meeting.
About Dr. Rosenbloom
Throughout her career, Rosenbloom has combined insights from sociology, urban planning and public policy to provide innovative solutions to complex transportation issues of diverse populations. Her research and publications on the mobility needs of older adults have driven policy changes to improve transportation systems and have become key references for scholars and practitioners. She has also contributed to research on women’s travel behavior, chairing the steering committee of a 1978 conference on the subject and writing a preface on the proceedings that continues to reveal insights in the present day.
Rosenbloom has authored or co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and major research reports, with some of her recent research, “Planning for an Aging Population: The Sustainability Conundrum” published in 2022. In addition to the Deen Lectureship, Rosenbloom has received the TRB Roy W. Crum Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in transportation research and the production of fundamental and developmental transportation planning research. She was also named a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences for her contributions to the National Research Council.
Within the TRB, Rosenbloom has served as chair and vice chair of the Executive Committee, chair of the Division Committee, and chair of the Standing Committee on Paratransit. She has also served as a member of multiple TRB committees such as the Committee on Equity Implications of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms, Standing Committee on Accessible Transportation, Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values, Standing Committee on Transportation History and the International Coordinating Council. Rosenbloom is currently an emeritus member of the Standing Committee on Women and Gender in Transportation.
In addition to her service in the TRB, Rosenbloom has served as president, vice president, Conference Committee chair and regional representative of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. She was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Planning Association, the U.S. editor of the journal Transportation, an associate editor of Transportation Research Record and is serving or has served on the editorial boards of six major transportation and planning scholarly journals.
Rosenbloom earned a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree in public policy, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California Los Angeles.