Madeline Brozen, program director of the Lewis Center’s Complete Streets Initiative, has been awarded the 2014 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship, created to help recipients contribute to the advancement of sustainable transport and urban mobility.
Brozen, who is a research scholar at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, is one of two scholarship recipients through sustainable transport program EMBARQ, an organization with the aim of helping implement environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable urban transport and urban planning solutions to improve quality of life in cities. The scholarship was created in honor of Dr. Leon J. Schipper, co-founder of EMBARQ and a recognized researcher who contributed to the fields of sustainable transport and energy efficiency.
“After learning I was selected as a Schipper scholar, I was shocked and delighted,” Brozen said in an announcement released by EMBARQ. Her research will “challenge the way streets are currently evaluated, examining the Level of Service (LOS) measure for assessing street performance.”
Brozen will focus on infrastructure that moves away from a car-oriented design to one that supports walking and bicycling.. Co-sponsored through the scholarship and World Bank, Brozen will present her findings at the Transforming Transportation 2015 conference. She was selected as an awardee out of a pool of 82 applicants from 26 countries.
Brozen holds a M.A. in urban planning from UCLA, and a B.S. in urban studies from the University of New Orleans.
