Kevin J. Krizek
Kevin J. Krizek is Associate Professor of Planning, Design, and Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado who teaches courses in land use and transportation, planning methods, and the PhD-level seminar on research design. He currently serves as Director of the PhD Program in Design and Planning (University of Colorado) and heads the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group, a collection of students and researchers studying how land use-transportation policies influence household residential location decisions and travel behavior (including walking and cycling). Krizek is a founding editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. He serves: as Chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee (a division of the National Research Council) on Telecommunications and Travel, as Chair of the Special Interest Group on Telecommunications (SIG 6) for the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), on the PhD committee for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Planning Association.
Krizek has served as Principal Investigator or co-PI for over $2 million in research grants from a variety of sponsors including the Department Of Infrastructure for the State Of Victoria (Australia), Federal Highway Administration, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Hennepin County, Minnesota Obesity Prevention Center, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. He actively publishes in the areas of travel behavior, neighborhood accessibility, health and planning, and sustainable development. Krizek is the author or editor of two books, over thirty published articles, and more than 40 other scholary reports or writings. His work has appeared in journals spanning urban planning, environmental issues, public health, and transportation, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Environment and Planning, American Journal of Health Promotion, Transportation, Housing Policy Debate, Transport Reviews, and Transportation Research part D. His doctoral research examining relationships between household travel and urban form won the
Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in the Field of Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 2001.
Prior to joining academia Krizek worked for the American Planning Association, the Teton County (Wyoming) Planning Department; and a transportation engineering consulting firm (Jackson, Wyoming). He has served as Vice-President of the board of the Minnesota Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance and as a member of Seattle's bicycle advisory board.
Krizek earned a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning and M.S.C.E. from the University of Washington in Seattle. His master's degree in planning is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his undergraduate degree is from Northwestern University.