Thank you to Steve Buckley (MST/MCP ’01), Vice-President of Planning & Advisory Services at Kimley-Horn, who presented “Urban Policies to Shape a World with Automated Vehicles” at a special TRANSOC hosted seminar on Jan. 31, 2025.
Abstract: Steve is passionate about cities, transportation and planning and how emerging technologies can be used to support people-focused planning goals. For the past decade he has been challenging the transportation industry to proactively shape how automated vehicles fit into our cities and our existing transportation models. Steve engaged with students, staff and faculty for a presentation and discussion about when, where, and how AVs will arrive and what cities should be doing to ensure their arrival supports public goals. Steve will provide a brief recent history of how we arrived at where we are and discuss an approach for ensuring that a world of automated ride hailing supports city goals.
Bio: Stephen Buckley, P.E., AICP is a Vice-President with Kimley-Horn and Associates’ Planning & Advisory Services practice. He is an engineer and planner with 30 years of experience in transportation in both the public and private sectors. Earlier in his career Steve served as the General Manager for Transportation Services for the City of Toronto. Prior to that, Steve served at the Director of Policy and Planning for the Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities, and Deputy Commissioner for Transportation in Philadelphia. Steve earned master’s degrees in transportation and in city planning from the University of California - Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Syracuse University. He has been an active member of the Transportation Research Board – serving as Chair of the Large Cities Committee, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), ITS Canada and the Transport Association of Canada. He taught as a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s and Temple University’s graduate programs in City & Regional Planning, and has presented over forty times at various seminars, conferences, and universities on how cities, states and transit agencies should prepare for a world with Automated Vehicles.