About Me

Dr. Steven Gehrke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation at Northern Arizona University (NAU). He received his M.S. in Community Planning from the University of Maryland and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Portland State University. He has professional affiliations with the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering at NAU and National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education. Prior to arriving at NAU, Dr. Gehrke was a Senior Transportation Analyst at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Gehrke studies sustainable transportation planning and engineering, with research interests in active transportation and micromobility, the future of automobility, transportation and land use interactions, and activity and travel behavior analysis. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics, with grant support from a variety of funding sponsors, including federal, state, regional, and local government agencies. His recent research and extramural grant activities have centered on the design and implementation of a web-based cyclist route decision-making tool to assess the transportation safety and security barriers in cyclist accessibility; administration of video and survey data collection instruments to evaluate sidewalk autonomous delivery robot interactions with pedestrians and bicyclists; and analysis of ridehailing driver-generated trajectories to investigate the spatial equity implications of ridehailing vehicle trip frequencies and miles traveled.