Prof Sandra Rosenbloom, Professor of Planning, Adjunct Professor of Gerontology, the University of Arizona, USA
Dr. Rosenbloom has an international reputation for her research work on transportation planning and the comparative impact of socio-demographic trends on transportation and land use patterns. She is a recognized expert on the travel patterns of groups with special needs and on the role of the private sector in the provision of transportation and other services.
In 1999 she was given the inaugural Roger Tate Award by the US Transportation Research Board in recognition of her outstanding body of research on the transportation needs of special groups. She has served as a consultant to the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and has consulted to the governments of the United States, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
In 2005 she received the Roy Crum Distinguished Service Award by the US National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board for Outstanding Achievement in the field of transportation research in production of fundamental and developmental research.