Jeff Rosenblum is a lecturer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is an experienced practitioner, educator, researcher, and advocate focusing on sustainable transportation policy, planning, and engineering. Since 2013, Jeff has been co-teaching Northeastern University’s Sustainable Transportation Planning and Engineering, a 5-week intensive summer course held at TU-Delft in the Netherlands. His dissertation research involved designing and implementing a randomized controlled evaluation testing the impact of low-income transit fares on transit ridership behavior.

In his previous role as Director of Planning for the Northeast at Toole Design Group, Jeff managed a team focused on multi-modal planning, urban street design, transportation engineering, and mobility policy for public and private sector clients. He worked for City of Cambridge from 2007-2014 managing large street redesign projects, coordinating regional planning efforts, and launching a transit planning practice. In 2004, Jeff co-founded the LivableStreets Alliance, a Boston-based transportation policy and advocacy nonprofit. His previous work involved green design, environmental impact assessment, and sustainable development in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Jeff previously served on the Bicycle Technical Subcommittee for the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), National Organization for City Transportation Officials (NACTO) design guide committee, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy Committee, MassDOT’s Advisory Board, Boston’s Complete Streets Guide working group, and MBTA’s Accessible Transit Infrastructure Advisory Group.

He holds a PhD in Urban Planning at MIT, and Master/ Bachelor degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a licensed professional engineer in Maine and Massachusetts.