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· About · Services · Projects · Staff · Contact	KFH Group Staff Steven Gehrke Transportation Analyst Bethesda Office Steven Gehrke specializes in a variety of technical aspects pertaining to public transportation planning, including: the utilization of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), database development and management, spatial analysis, and overall cartographic design. His professional efforts have focused on the development of bus stop design and spacing guidelines, the analyses of intercity bus lines, and service planning for rural and small urban transit systems. These efforts have built upon the knowledge he obtained while conducting transportation, land use, and urban design projects in College Park, Maryland, Las Cruces, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon, during prior and current academic pursuits. As a Transportation Analyst, Mr. Gehrke has aided in the development of regional guidelines for the design and placement of transit stops while under contract with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). He has also worked with WMATA to improve pathway conditions for demand-response and fixed-route participants across the metropolitan region, so as to comply with requirements denoted by the Americans with Disabilities Act’s Accessibility Guidelines. Additionally, Mr. Gehrke has performed comprehensive analyses toward the development of bus stop guidelines and an overall inventory for the County of Maui, Hawaii. His work with the County of Maui ultimately led to the construction of a spatial database for all of the system’s transit stops with detailed attribute information that the County will utilize for future updates to its expanding transit system. More recently, Mr. Gehrke developed a prioritization method for bus stop improvements in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Mr. Gehrke has provided technical support toward intercity bus studies with CalTrans and the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) that have sought to improve the accessibility and connectivity of regional networks for the States of California and Maryland, respectively. His efforts on these projects have included data collection, database development and management, analysis of existing and conceptual routes, and the mapping of the intercity bus services. Further, under contract with MTA, he has worked on five-year transit development plans for six Maryland Counties (Caroline, Charles, Howard, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot). Within these plans, he has assisted in the production of proposals to improve transit service for areas identified as lacking adequate transit service, composed accompanying cartographic representations pertaining to existing and proposed services, as well as coordination of public participation events. In addition, Mr. Gehrke has contributed to several Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) projects related to intercity bus services and their rural transit providers through structured surveys with local and state operators and the execution of widespread analyses. He has developed maps for the Deerfield Valley Transit Association (DVTA) in Southern Vermont and Delmarva Community Transit in the Eastern Shore of Maryland for use in advertisements, brochures, and websites. During his tenure with KFH Group, Mr. Gehrke has also worked under contract with the American Public Transit Association toward the production of maps for business members and United States congressional representatives displaying national vehicle miles traveled and the location of transit services. Mr. Gehrke is currently pursuing a master’s degree in community planning with a specialization in transportation and land use planning at the University of Maryland, College Park. At the present, he is working on a comparative analysis of the federal policy shift toward livability measurements in the Federal Transportation Administration’s New Starts program. Previously at Portland State University (PSU), he undertook a number of significant projects analyzing transit planning in the Portland Metropolitan Area. One such study was an analysis of accessibility in the Abernethy neighborhood, in which he collected comprehensive, primary GPS data in order to determine deficiencies in pedestrian access to recent commercial developments. The findings of his work detailed areas of concern, which he applied towards the development of a proposal for current and future improvements of the pathways and crosswalks in the neighborhood. Return to staff page	Education · B.S. Geography & B.A. History, Cum Laude, New Mexico State University, · Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, Portland State University · Graduate Student, Master of Community Planning, University of Maryland, degree expected in June 2011 Previous Positions · Graduate Research Assistant, National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education, College Park, MD