Ruth L. Steiner

Ruth L. Steiner is professor and director of the Center for Health and the Built Environment in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning as well as affiliate faculty in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Transportation Institute at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the coordination of transportation and land use, with a particular focus on planning for all modes of transportation and for how transportation impacts communities, the environment, and public health.  Her current focus is the impact of school siting, school transportation, and land development patterns on children’s transportation and aging; millennials' changing travel patterns; impact of new transportation technologies on transportation systems; equity and the incorporation of risk into long-range transportation planning. She has served on the Pedestrian Committee, the Transportation and Land Development Committee, and the Transportation History Committee of the Transportation Research Board and on the Scientific Committee of the World Congress on Transportation Research Society. Steiner received her PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2024