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Lindsay Braun’s research addresses the relationship between built environment and travel behavior with an emphasis on active transportation, which includes walking and cycling, public health, and social equity. Her work explores how the built environment can facilitate physical activity as part of daily travel routines and how active transportation strategies can advance broad livability and sustainability goals in urban areas. Importantly, Dr. Braun recognizes that the health benefits of transportation infrastructure systems are unevenly distributed across neighborhoods with varying demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. She analyzes themes of equity and access related to walking and cycling in U.S. cities, examining current research on pedestrian access to transit, sociodemographic disparities concerning infrastructure and safety-related barriers to walking, and equity considerations in the planning and implementation of dockless bike share systems. Additionally, she investigates the potential impacts of green infrastructure investment on gentrification and health disparities, incorporating equity goals into active transportation plans, and the equity implications of the growing reliance on crowd-sourced data in transportation planning decisions. Dr. Braun holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a Master of City and Regional Planning and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Development Studies from the same institution and Centre College, respectively.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Core faculty member in the Department of Urban & Regional Planning, focusing on research in active transportation, public health, and social equity.
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