Steve Winkelman, Director of the Transportation and Adaptation Programs, has more than 17 years of experience in the transportation, energy and environmental fields. He is a co-author of the book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, published in 2008 by the Urban Land Institute.

Steve directs CCAP’s VMT and Climate Policy Dialogue, which engages top decision makers and leading experts on integrating transportation and climate change policies. He has successfully focused the attention of key policy makers on the importance of slowing growth in VMT (vehicle miles traveled) for reducing transportation sector GHG emissions, and has testified to four Congressional committees on the subject.  Steve also directs CCAP’s Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative, which assists ten partner cities and counties in increasing their resilience to the impacts of global climate change. He has spoken at two Congressional staff briefings on federal policy implications of urban climate adaptation needs.
 
Steve provides technical and policy assistance in developing and implementing climate change policy to government officials in places such as California, Connecticut, Chile, King County (Washington), Mexico and New York. He developed the CCAP Transportation Emissions Guidebook with tools for quantifying GHG savings from 40 transportation policies and measures including feebates, biofuels, smart growth, pricing strategies and intermodal freight.

Prior to joining CCAP, Steve managed ICF Kaiser’s Climate Wise industrial energy efficiency work for the US EPA.  At Argonne National Laboratory he designed, built and tested a magnetically levitated vehicle (maglev). He is an active member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board Sustainability Committee.

Steve holds a BS in Physics from the University of Michigan and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota.