- rjschnei@uwm.edu
- Arch & Urban Planning 249
- He/Him
Robert Schneider
- Professor & Co-Chair, Urban Planning
Education
Bachelor of Arts – Augustana College, Rock Island, IL 1999
Master of Urban and Regional Planning – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2001
PhD in Urban Planning – University of California, Berkeley 2011
Biography
Dr. Robert Schneider, PhD, AICP, is a Professor and Co-chair of the UW-Milwaukee Department of Urban Planning. He specializes in pedestrian and bicycle transportation planning and has led more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics such as traffic safety, travel behavior, and data collection. He has co-edited the Handbook on Transport and Land Use: A Holistic Approach in an Age of Rapid Technological Change; co-led the development of a new, national Pedestrian Level of Traffic Stress method; won paper awards from the Transportation Research Board Pedestrian Committee, Transportation Research Board Bicycle Committee, and World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research; and been named the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals Research Professional of the Year. Dr. Schneider chaired the Transportation Research Board Pedestrian Committee from 2014 to 2020 and is currently an Associate Director of the USDOT-funded Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety University Transportation Center.