Lindsay Martin Oluyede is an urban planner-turned-researcher whose work centers on understanding and addressing transportation insecurity. Throughout her career, she has focused on improving collaboration between planning practitioners, cross-sector stakeholders, and everyday residents to expand transportation options within their communities.

Oluyede is an Assistant Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University (ASU). Her research explores what and how we can learn from people’s lived experiences with transportation to inform planning policy and practice. She has published research on transportation barriers and facilitators to accessing health care (including during the COVID-19 pandemic) based on in-depth interviews with care coordinators in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

Previously, Oluyede worked in Washington, DC, holding positions in the non-profit and private sectors. At Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), she advised communities on the revitalization of railroad corridors into multi-use trails and contributed to place-based projects. In New Orleans, she conducted outreach to low-income communities and communities of color to support a more inclusive planning process for the Lafitte Greenway—one of the city’s keystone recovery projects after Hurricane Katrina. Oluyede was also a contributing author to Urban Pathways to Healthy Neighborhoods: Promising Strategies for Encouraging Trail Use in Urban Communities, which documented lessons learned from RTC’s local work to increase the use of underutilized trails in urban areas.

As a transportation consultant at ICF, Oluyede worked on research and strategic planning projects for federal/national and state transportation organizations: the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), etc. She co-authored technical publications—including the national Strategic Agenda for Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation (2016-2021) and Transit Cooperative Research Program Synthesis 109: System-Specific Spare Bus Ratios Update. She also developed content for the online tools PlanWorks and the Health in Transportation Corridor Planning Framework, which provide resources to support collaborative and integrated planning. 

She received a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).