Steve Buckley

Steve Buckley currently serves as the Northeast Regional Manager for WSP’s Planning, Environment and Traffic practices. Steve is a licensed engineer and certified planner and has over twenty years of experience in a wide range of many aspects of the transportation industry, including design, operations, maintenance, policy, planning, programming, and funding.

Steve most recently served as General Manager of Transportation for the City of Toronto. Prior to his tenure in Toronto, Steve led the Transportation Division of the Philadelphia Streets Department, while also serving as the Director of Policy and Planning for the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities for the City of Philadelphia.

While in Toronto, Steve initiated and led a City of Toronto Divisional working group on Automated Vehicles, hosted workshops to educate and raise awareness across city divisions, commissioned the white paper “Driving Changes: Automated Vehicles in Toronto” to initiate a regional dialogue, and created a Divisional Automated Vehicle Work Plan. He has been invited to speak by over two dozen State DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, and City DOTs on how public sector agencies can plan for and shape the introduction of AVs into cities.

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 currently serves as the Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transportation Issues in Major Cities, serves on the Board of ITS Canada and the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute. Steve is also a Lecturer in the City & Regional Planning program at the University of Pennsylvania.