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University of Oregon planning department professor Marc Schlossberg has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Israel how city design decisions influence popularity of sustainable transportation modes, such as walking and biking.

Schlossberg, a Eugene-based professor at the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts’ Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, this fall will collaborate with architecture and planning faculty at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Hafia, Israel. During a four-month stint at the Israeli university, starting in October, Schlossberg will also share his expertise as director of UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative, which promotes education and research of design of sustainable cities.

This is the second time Schlossberg has earned a Fulbright scholarship via an international teaching and research grant program led by the U.S. State Department. Between 2009 and 2010, he spent a year at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England; he co-taught courses and researched ways the city could encourage residents to walk more.

Schlossberg’s research in Israel will focus on how to transform cities so people can walk and bike more, he said. He plans to use a 3-D visualization lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to model streetscapes and explore various design options for accommodating bicycle traffic.

鈥淭he scale that I’m interested in is how street design works to plan for people to use bikes more often,鈥� he said.

Schlossberg also plans to work on a mapping project that will use community feedback and collaboration with Technion faculty on teaching topics such as bicycle and pedestrian planning and sustainable transportation.

Schlossberg said he’s looking forward to learning more about sustainable policies in Israel and efforts there to encourage walking and biking. It will be particularly interesting, he said, to explore old cities with portions that were built long before the advent of cars surrounded by new development.

鈥淭hat whole mix of old and new just seems like an interesting place to figure out 鈥� marrying all those old and new things together,鈥� he said.