Breakout Sessions

Learn how the City of Portland, Oregon has implemented SmartTrips, a program to encourage its residents to walk, bike and take transit. SmartTrips is a comprehensive approach to transportation behavior change through an individualized marketing approach that is based on engaging people in their own transportation choices. This hands-on workshop will give you practical tools, information and templates that you can use to begin a similar program in your own community. Topics will include setting the stage and securing support, developing a budget, defining the menu of programs and activities, implementing the program, and evaluation. Registrants receive an advance survey to help instructors tailor the content of this day-long training to participants’ needs.

Speakers:

• Linda Ginenthal, Transportation Options Program Manager for Outreach and Education, City of Portland, Oregon
• Lynn Weigand, PhD, Director, Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation, Portland State University.

Schedule:

• Morning: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)
• Lunch: 12 noon – 1:00pm
• Afternoon: 1:00pm-4:30pm (3.5 hours)
  

Cost: $250; lunch is provided.

This session has been Cancelled.

Everyone is born, lives, and grows old, but not every town or neighborhood supports people living actively through all stages of life. What is being learned about aging in place—or living in place—and built environments designed for all ages? This all-day workshop explores the tools, programs and resources available to make communities work for every age, especially the current cohort of baby boomers. WALC Institute and AARP staff visited a series of cities to assess existing conditions and recommended improved approaches to the built environment and public engagement. Learn about the AARP/WALC Institute hot-off-the-press Implementation Guide: Moving from Inspiration to Action. The guide’s primary audience is AARP state office staff and their local stakeholders, but it has wide application and can assist active-living advocates throughout the country.

Speakers:

• Dan Burden, Executive Director, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
• Jeanne Anthony, Sr. Project Manager, AARP Livable Communities
• Kelly Morphy, Director of Outreach and Communications, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.

Schedule:

• Morning: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)
• Lunch: 12 noon – 1:00pm
• Afternoon: 1:00pm-4:30pm (3.5 hours)

Cost: $275; lunch is provided.

The World Health Organization recently announced the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. Meanwhile, Toward Zero Deaths is both a federal and state initiative aimed at changing highway safety culture in the U.S. TZD includes safer infrastructure, safer vehicles and safer road users. Several authors of the TZD white paper Safer Vulnerable Road Users: Pedestrians, Bicyclists, Motorcyclists, and Older Users share their findings and recommendations specific to walking and bicycling. At this session, APBP and America Walks invite panelists and participants to ask tough questions.

• Does TZD’s measurement protocol (number of crashes) tell the real safety story of current and future bicyclists and pedestrians?
• What can be learned about effective countermeasures from the U.S. and abroad?
• What are the top priorities for moving pedestrian and bicyclist deaths toward zero?
• Is the change in the road user hierarchy recommended in the International Scan report a call to action for TZD?

The session examines the types of engineering, education, enforcement and vehicle-related strategies that can reduce deaths and injuries to vulnerable road users and presents the state of the practice regarding exposure theory, accessible signals and curb ramp design. The session concludes with the development of proposed consensus statements bike ped professionals and organizations can use to engage in the national and international TZD dialogue.

The TZD whitepaper discussion sets the stage for the week’s exploration of Complete Streets, which the authors say “should be a standard for all new roads and for all roadway reconstruction projects. Without having a requirement for Complete Streets Policies, some agencies are likely to continue to give a lower priority to the needs of pedestrians in the roadway and street environment.”

Speakers:

• Charles V. Zegeer, Director, Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and Associate Director for Engineering and Planning, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
• Janet Barlow, Principal, Accessible Design for the Blind.
• Additional speakers TBA

Schedule:

• Morning: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)
• Lunch: 12 noon – 1:00pm
• Afternoon: 1:00pm-4:30pm (3.5 hours)

Cost: $200; lunch is provided.

Mini-bus / walking / healthy lunch and refreshments provided Tour highlights bicycle plans and programs in both cities and examines the Swamp Rabbit Trail – a successful public/private funding partnership in Greenville County (the subject of an APBP webinar in January 2010) – and a foundation-funded initiative for better bicycling in Spartanburg, South Carolina’s first Bicycle Friendly Community.

This tour includes a generous and healthy mid-morning snack before we land in Greenville, SC http://www.greenvillesc.gov http://www.greenvillecvb.com which masterfully made the transition from waning mill town to vibrant village. The City of Greenville‘s exciting trail and greenway master plan and its Bikeville initiative set the stage for a new bicycle master plan presented for adoption in September. The City is planning a bicycle commuter hub at the downtown transit center and the combined city and county’s 14 mile walking/biking trail along the Reedy River complements the city’s successful downtown redevelopment plan. The long-term, effective public-private partnership efforts of a visionary Republican mayor and collaborative city council (4R, 3D), along with an excellent staff, guided the city through the recession. A once dying downtown is now home to offices, shops, restaurants, entertainment and many residents, as well as the imaginative Mice on Main Street sculpture/walking game that appeals to all ages. In the West End, the city invested $13 million in Falls Park which stimulated more than $100 million in private investment. After an enticing overview of the planning process that made all of this possible, we’ll walk (or bike) through the downtown and the 20 acre Falls Park that features Wi-Fi, waterfalls and a Santiago Calatrava-designed Liberty Bridge and discuss along the way how the city’s investment in innovation increases its livability quotient.

The Greenville Hospital System’s http://www.ghs.org corporate leadership and private investment is evident in both the county’s greenway master planning process and the Greenville Hospital System Swamp Rabbit Trail. The draft plan identifies the five benefits of greenways and implementation steps to create a trails system that connects existing trails, neighborhoods, schools, parks, points of interest, and other regional destinations. Even seasoned trail experts will find inspiring new practices to take home and apply from their visit to the city/county trail.

We eat a healthy, late lunch on the way from Greenville to Spartanburg where we’ll discover Bike Town Spartanburg, a community-wide, collaborative initiative dedicated to sustaining and improving Spartanburg’s national designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists. In September 2006, the City of Spartanburg earned an Honorable Mention as a bike-friendly community. A determined Spartanburg reached its stated goal in September 2007, earning a Bronze Level Bicycle Friendly Community designation and becoming the first bike friendly community in the state of South Carolina. The City of Spartanburg will reapply for designation in August 2011.

Bike Town was launched in early 2005 with a $106,000 three-year grant from the Mary Black Foundation (MBF) http://www.maryblackfoundation.org. Four nonprofit groups – Palmetto Conservation Foundation, Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Freewheelers of Spartanburg, and Partners for Active Living – joined forces to implement the program, which is housed with Partners for Active Living. This campaign catapulted successful projects such as the MBF rail trail, downtown cycling loop, and multiple bike promotion programs, and led to several innovative follow up projects. B-cycle kicked off in June as the Southeast’s first bike sharing program. Currently, the city and partner organizations are undertaking the most challenging task to date – the redevelopment of the Northside, a community with infrastructure challenges compounded by economic challenges. With help from a local foundation the city is working to leverage the investment of the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, which recently built a campus in Northside, to create a place that provides all residents with opportunities to be active and safe. The latest initiatives include bikeshare stations, downtown bike lanes and a collaborative community engagement process to redesign a dangerous intersection. Spartanburg http://www.cityofspartanburg.org shows what a smaller sized city (40,000) can do to gain national recognition while creating lasting social change.

 

Speakers:

• Jean Crowther, Alta Planning + Design (tour leader)
• Andrew Meeker, ASLA & LCI, Urban Designer, City of Greenville, Parks and Recreation Department
• Blake Sanders, SeamonWhiteside + Associates
• Brian Graham, AICP & LCI, Greenway and Sustainability Manager, City of Greenville, Department of Parks & Recreation
• Mary Douglas Hirsch (invited), Downtown Development Manager, Greenville, SC
• Ty Houck, Director of Greenways, Natural and Historic Resources, Greenville County Recreation District
• Laura Ringo (invited), Executive Director, Partners for Active Living, Spartanburg

Schedule: 8:30am-4:30pm (8 hours)

Cost: $150; lunch and refreshments provided. 25 maximum.

This session has been Cancelled.

In 2004, the City of Davidson, North Carolina, (population 10,000) was selected as the overall winner for the EPA’s Smart Growth award. The city continues to carry out the principles of smart growth on a daily basis. Since 2004, the city has added a tremendous amount of mixed-use, residential neighborhoods and infill development while steadily increasing the amount of affordable housing. Davidson recently adopted its first comprehensive plan that has no fewer than eight livability themes as its cornerstone. Participants will tour several newly constructed affordable units, walk a stretch of greenway, take a walking tour of historic Main Street and the Davidson College campus, visit a wonderful New Urbanist neighborhood designed by Victor Dover, and stop at the “Circles at 30” mixed-use district near Interstate 77.

Only 15 years in the making, the Circles at 30 is a vibrant commercial district with two roundabouts that are very successful at moving traffic off the freeway and quickly into a walkable, high-quality architectural townscape. Participants will also visit subdivisions where a 50 percent open space requirement has created compact middle-class housing surrounded by permanently protected and publicly accessible open space. It also boasts a nature preserve and access to beautiful Lake Davidson. Included in this tour is a discussion of Town-Gown issues, campus transportation concerns and the Bicycle Friendly University application process.

Wear comfortable shoes and weather- appropriate attire suitable for cycling.

Speakers:

• John Cock, AICP, Associate/Southeast Regional Manager, Alta Planning + Design
• Bill Nesper, Director, Bicycle Friendly America Program, League of American Bicyclists

Schedule: 9:00am-4:00pm (7 hours)

Cost: $125; lunch, bike rental and transit passes included. 25 maximum.

Although reasonable minds may differ on the defining elements of a “great street” most people know one when they see one. How do cities, organizations and advocates define great streets? With limited resources, how can cities leave streets more complete with each project? This session features the National Complete Streets Coalition’s guide to writing local policy and includes examples of political will, model policies and design guidance used to create great streets that are safe, accessible and convenient for everyone.

Moderator:

• Jennifer Hefferan, Safe Routes to School Coordinator, District of Columbia Department of Transportation

Speakers:

• Janet Barlow, Research Associate, Accessible Design for the Blind, Asheville, NC
• Fay Gibson, Project Officer and Mark Dessauer,
  Communications Director, Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, Active Living By Design, North Carolina Institute for Public Health
• Tracy Newsome, Transportation Planner III, Charlotte Department of Transportation
• Stefanie Seskin, State & Local Policy Manager, National Complete Streets Coalition
• Gary Toth, Director of Transportation Initiatives, Project for Public Spaces, NYC

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Whenever the road runs through it…People, places, businesses and families feel the benefits and barriers inherent in roadways designed by State and Provincial Departments of Transportation. Which departments are our heroes, doing the most to meet the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians in their roadway designs? (We’ll ignore the villains for now). We examine a collection of the best and the brightest to see if these guides are beginning to establish a new protocol to make roads work for all users.

Moderator:

• Mark de la Vergne, Project Manager, Sam Schwartz Engineering, Chicago

Speakers:

• Betsy Jacobsen, Bicycle, Pedestrian & TDM Coordinator, Colorado Department of Transportation
• Marc Jolicoeur, Researcher, Vélo Québec Association, Montréal
• Jane Lim-Yap, A.I.C.P., LEED AP, Senior Planner, Kittelson & Associates, Orlando
• Mary Raulerson, Principal Planner, Kittelson & Associates, Orlando
  

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Let’s get competitive! How can we use the BFC and the new WFC program to our advantage, either as employees, consultants, or advocates? What’s involved in applying and how can communities apply in a cost effective way? What do cities need to do to score well? Hear first-hand from the program developers and implementers of these fascinating and effective programs. Learn why cities think these programs play to their advantage.

Moderator:

• Malisa McCreedy, Pedestrian Program Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation

Speakers:

• Frank Babel, Founder and President, Squeaky Wheels Cycling Advocacy Group on Hilton Head Island (Silver BFC); Board member, Palmetto Cycling Coalition
• Scott Correll, Transportation Planner I, Charlotte Department of Transportation (Bronze WFC)
• Kit Keller, Executive Director, APBP
• Ken Tippette, Bicycle Program Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation (Bronze BFC)
• Bill Nesper, Director, Bicycle Friendly America Program, League of American Bicyclists
• Carl Sundstrom, PE, UNC Highway Safety Research Center

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

This walking tour will explore the technique and methods of discovery by foot, trekking portions of uptown Charlotte, including Tryon Street and one of the historic wards. You’ll experience many of Charlotte’s outstanding public realm features as you learn how you can engage people in the communities you serve by leading them on a walking audit. The discovery includes an interactive exploration by participants of streetscapes, urban development, urban infill, public space, parking and traffic management principles and practices. Wear comfortable shoes and weather appropriate attire.

Leaders:

• Vivian Coleman RLA, AICP, Center City Transportation Program Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation 704.309.2343 vcoleman@ci.charlotte.nc.us
• Jim Kimbler, James D. Kimbler Consulting (former City Center Transportation Program Manager)

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Cost: $10.

The City of Charlotte’s complete streets story and accomplishments offer profound hope of what cities can do in a 10-year timeframe to invite more walking, bicycling, and public transit use. Charlotte’s recipe for progress includes vision, policy, political will, convincing design drawings and effective field supervision. Speakers examine the economic development and active living advantages of Charlotte’s investment in its future. This session identifies common roadblocks to city-wide change and explains how to make change incrementally, as opportunities arise.

Moderator:

• Linda Tracy, Complete Streets Program Manager, Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals

Speakers:

• Dan Gallagher, AICP, Planning Section Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation
• Laura Harmon, AICP, Assistant Director, Charlotte Planning Department
• Pat Mumford, Director of Neighborhood & Business Services, Charlotte
  

Schedule: 2:15pm-5:15pm (3 hours)

The hottest design guide to hit city streets is the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide. Sure, you can view the great free webinar hosted by APBP on May 25 (we recommend you do, it was recorded for all to see at www.apbp.org). Many agencies are using the guide as an accessible peer to peer tool for designing bicycle friendly cities. At this session, you’ll immerse yourself in why, how, where and when to apply it. We explore the question whether is it best used as political stimulus or as a pure engineering guide or both, and what needs to be in NACTO’s UBDG II.

Moderator:

• Kit Keller, Executive Director, APBP

Speaker:

• Jamie Parks, Senior Planner, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
• Carlos Morales, Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, City of Omaha
• David Vega-Barachowitz, National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
• Craig Williams, Senior Associate / Chicago Office Director, Alta Planning + Design
  

Schedule: 2:15pm-5:15pm (3 hours)

Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure helps people live healthy lives, but it also has bottom-line benefits for businesses, developers and cities. Learn how the growing demand for walkable urban places is growing and see examples of how the market is meeting that demand in Charlotte, and in other cities around the U.S. Gain insight about the trends affecting housing, transportation, work and leisure choices. Learn what resources are available to help cities compete for people.

Moderator:

• Judi Wallace, President, Wallace Consulting & Training, Inc., Winston-Salem

Speakers:

• Allison Billings, President, Innovative Urban Strategies, Charlotte
• Milton Rhodes, Creative Corridors Coalition, Winston-Salem
• Nicole Sidoff, Community Development Educator UW-Extension, Ozaukee County
• Carol Strohecker, Director, Center for Design Innovation, Winston-Salem
  

Schedule: 2:15pm-5:15pm (3 hours)

This tour will lead participants along a vital new segment of greenway in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg system. Participants will learn about the distinctive vision of the Thread Trail, challenges of restoring an impaired creek, opportunities to strengthen communities along the Little Sugar Creek Greenway, and the inclusive partnership for funding and implementation. The Carolina Thread Trail is a regional vision for a network of greenways and trails that will reach 15 counties in two states and 2.3 million citizens in the greater Charlotte region. The Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners directed its park and recreation department to develop a countywide Greenways Master Plan to improve water quality. The plan identified Little Sugar Creek in central Charlotte as its pilot project, due to the creek’s flooding and region-worst water quality.

The new master plan coupled urban placement with urban ecology. Its goals are to restore the creek’s natural function, provide access via multi-use trails, and establish a destination to catalyze investment in diverse urban and suburban neighborhoods. Participants will see how Little Sugar Creek, once underground in culverts, was reborn as a natural stream while contributing to the city’s transportation network. Includes a visit to Charlotte Bicycle ReCyclery, where kids develop their bike maintenance and repair skills, and after completing a 6-hour program, earn the right to own the restored bike of their choosing.

Leader: Dick Winters, Built Environment, SRTS Coordinator, Mecklenburg County Dept of Public Health.

Schedule: 2:15pm-5:15pm (3 hours)

Cost: $35.

This bus tour of Uptown Charlotte and surrounding neighborhoods highlights recent projects that implement the Center City Transportation Plan (2006), Urban Street Design guidelines and the Transportation Action Plan, with a major focus on reducing congestion and vehicle miles travelled, improving mobility, and making neighborhoods more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly. The tour will describe how conversion of a suburban to urban interchange is revitalizing part of Uptown, show actions being taken to make Uptown more pedestrian friendly, highlight current and future transit corridor plans and showcase urban and neighborhood revitalization. Participants will receive a substantial handout.

Leader: Tom Sorrentino, Transportation Project Manager, Charlotte DOT.

Schedule: 2:15pm-5:15pm (3 hours)

Cost: $35.

The National Complete Streets Coalition collects and shares stories attesting to the value of complete streets. How do local communities (like Charlotte) and national groups (like the American Public Health Association) respond to the viewpoint that it’s “too damn expensive” to build complete streets? This session explores what’s missing from today’s trash talk about transportation and asks whether – in a difficult economy – the real question is can we afford to continue to design and build streets that only serve cars?

Moderator:

• Brett Hondorp, Principal, Alta Planning + Design

Speakers:

• Barbara McCann, Executive Director, National Complete Streets Coalition
• Norm Steinman, AICP, Planning and Design Division Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation
  
  Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Automobile speed is a critical factor in pedestrian and bicyclist safety, comfort, and participation. However, many people don’t understand how enforcement, education, and engineering practices impact speed and how this affects walking and bicycling behavior and safety. America Walks is developing a campaign to clarify the current practice of establishing posted speeds, to increase public awareness of the effects of speed, to foster pilot community-wide speed reduction campaigns, and to improve state and federal policies. Join this collaborative workshop to learn more about this project, and then provide your expertise and perspective on ways to effectively reduce speeds in communities around the nation.

Moderator:

• Jennifer Carver, Project Manager, Renaissance Planning Group, Tallahassee

Speakers:

• Scott Bricker, Executive Director - America Walks
• Roger B. Henderson, AICP. P.E., Complete Streets Workshop Instructor
• Gary Toth, Director of Transportation Initiatives, Project for Public Spaces

Notes & Needs:

• Interactive session, 45 minutes of presentations, the rest culling out issues and perspectives of attendees. UNC Speed Symposium…

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

People-friendly structures seem to be a benchmark of livable cities. From vision statements to design guides, the cities where you want to live want you to live well. In this session we will explore some of the best City Street Design Manuals, learn how they came about, learn what they cover, and what they did not. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Charlotte will be presented, along with ITE-CNU Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares. We will show videos from Vancouver, and talk through the new design manual for Chicago. We will discuss how good street design is universal and accessible. Come and learn how your city can be party to progress.

Moderator:

• Michael King, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, NYC

Speakers:

• Janet Barlow, Research Associate, Accessible Design for the Blind, Asheville, NC
• Mike Davis, Development Services Division Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation
• Phil Erickson, President, Community Design + Architecture, Oakland, CA
• Luis Montoya, Transportation Planner, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
• Ryan Snyder, President, Ryan Snyder Associates, Los Angeles

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Bicycle parking is an essential element of a successful bicycle network. In-street “bike corrals” and high capacity bicycle parking are helping meet the growing demand for bike parking in our cities. This session covers the basics from policies to types of bike racks, as well as innovations to alleviate bike and pedestrian conflicts where bicycle parking would typically have been placed on sidewalks. An optional bike parking mobile session with living laboratory exercises follows in the afternoon.

Moderator:

• Kit Keller, Executive Director, APBP

Speakers:

• Eric Anderson, Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, City of Berkeley, CA
• John Ciccarelli, Consultant, Bicycle Solutions, San Francisco

Notes & Needs:

• Field Survey Form

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

This bus tour of Uptown Charlotte and surrounding neighborhoods highlights recent projects that implement the Center City Transportation Plan (2006), Urban Street Design guidelines and the Transportation Action Plan, with a major focus on reducing congestion and vehicle miles travelled, improving mobility, and making neighborhoods more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly. The tour will describe how conversion of a suburban to urban interchange is revitalizing part of Uptown, show actions being taken to make Uptown more pedestrian friendly, highlight current and future transit corridor plans and showcase urban and neighborhood revitalization. Participants will receive a substantial handout.

Leader: Tom Sorrentino, Transportation Project Manager, Charlotte DOT.

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Cost: $35.

Come and tour Charlotte’s mixed-use centers and vibrant main streets. We’ll first visit the Metropolitan town center, an exciting mixed-use redevelopment of a previously abandoned retail site. We’ll learn more about how the project was developed, see how a key waterway was environmentally restored as part of this new development, and learn how the project helped to implement a key segment of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway. Next we’ll tour the Elizabeth Avenue streetscape project that is helping to transform this area into a vibrant main street along the city’s new streetcar line. The tour will finish along historic East Boulevard, where we’ll see how streets can be “road-dieted” to reclaim their Main Street feel and once again become cherished people places.

Leader: Dan Gallagher, Transportation Planning Section Manager, Charlotte DOT.

Schedule: 8:30am-12 noon (3.5 hours)

Cost: $35.

The National Complete Streets Coalition’s hands-on workshops use a 6-step process borrowed from the City of Charlotte’s Urban Street Design Guidelines. Those steps are (1) Define Land Context, (2) Define Transportation Context, (3) Identify Deficiencies, (4) Describe Future Objectives, (5) Define Street Type and Initial Cross Section, and (6) Describe Tradeoffs and Select Cross Section. In this session, participants apply the 6-step process to a specific example street to demonstrate how to build successful projects. Speakers and participants discuss engaging stakeholders, iterative design process, using alternative street typologies, and trade-offs for all modes. This session offers a refresher on useful collaboration skills needed when working with the public.

Moderator:

• Linda Tracy, Complete Streets Program Manager, APBP

Speaker:

• Mark Cole, PE, Design Section Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation
• Barbara McCann, Executive Director, National Complete Streets Coalition
• Tracy Newsome, Transportation Planner III, Charlotte Department of Transportation
  

Schedule: 2pm-5pm (3 hours)

Attend this session for a quick tutorial on the latest leading guidance to make communities more livable, including LEED-ND, the ITE CNU Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach, and Denver’s new street typology. Come prepared to share your favorite professional tools such as smart mobility and Pedestrian Safety Features incorporating Low Impact Development (LID). Be sure to include well-designed, well-placed bicycle parking! Refer to APBP’s Bicycle Parking Guidelines, 2nd Edition (2010) available for download from www.apbp.org.

Moderator:

• Seleta Reynolds, Livable Streets Section Leader, Sustainable Streets Division, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Speakers:

• Janet Barlow, Research Associate, Accessible Design for the Blind, Asheville, NC
• Mike Lydon, Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative
• Ian Moore, Senior Associate, Fehr and Peers, Walnut Creek, CA
• Frederick W. Schwartz, P.E., Senior Vice President and Principal Kimley-Horn and Associates, Chicago
• Gary Toth, Director of Transportation Initiatives, Project for Public Spaces, NYC
  

Schedule: 2pm-5pm (3 hours)

From Barcelona to Boston, San Antonio to San Francisco, and Boulder to Berlin, bike sharing systems are catching on. Hip and fun for all ages, bike share systems can enliven cities and ease congestion. This new phenomenon is recognized internationally as part of a sustainable transportation system, whether in friendly kiosks outside conventions centers, as in Denver, or integrated with a bus rapid transit system, as in Guangzhou, China. Bikesharing can build a bicycle community, put a city on the map and even help reduce the weight of the nation.

What do you need to know when planning your program? Learn how cities with bike share programs did it – who was involved, how long it took from idea to implementation, what it costs, how it’s funded, who runs the program, what stumbling blocks exist and why it’s “so damn popular.”

Moderator:

• Jessica Mortell, Toole Design Group

Speakers:

• Julia Diana, Senior Management Analyst, City of San Antonio
• Nicole Freedman, Director of Bicycle Programs, City of Boston
• Chris Holben, Bikeshare Program Manager, District of Columbia Department of Transportation

Schedule: 2pm-5pm (3 hours)

Take a ride on the LYNX Light Rail to see first-hand how transit has served as a redevelopment tool in Charlotte’s South Boulevard corridor. Speakers from the public and private sector will discuss transportation, planning and economic development opportunity and challenges. Highlights include a stop in the South End, a former manufacturing district experiencing a rebirth as a mixed-use area, and a stop at the I-485 Station, where an innovative parking structure design resulted from a partnership with the local school district. See how Charlotte has provided for bicycling and walking along the light rail corridor and to and from stations. Bicycles may be brought on board Charlotte’s light rail at any time of day.

Leader: Andy Grzymski, Transportation Planner, Charlotte DOT.

Schedule: 2pm-5pm (3 hours)

Cost: $15.

This on-bike inventory of Charlotte’s bicycle parking gives participants a first-hand look at the opportunities and challenges one might find in any city that wants to increase its supply of desirable bicycle parking. Participants on this tour must have attended the morning classroom session on bicycle parking. Armed with the knowledge gained in that session, participants will survey what Charlotte has done and make specific recommendations about additional bicycle parking at a variety of locations throughout the city. The tour begins with a visit to bike parking vendors in the PDS Exhibit Hall and then heads out into the streets.

Leaders:

• Eric Anderson, Associate Planner - Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs, City of Berkeley Dept. of Public Works
• Ken Tippette, Bicycle Program Manager Charlotte DOT.

Schedule: 2pm-5pm (3 hours)

Cost: $35.

How strong is your complete streets policy? In this hands on session, learn how the National Complete Streets Coalition scores written policies. Is your complete streets policy getting the results you expect? Even a great policy is only as good as its implementation process. Seize a roll-up-your-sleeves opportunity to learn the steps to effective implementation, including training, changing internal procedures, changing design manuals, using new performance measures, and knowing how to overcome resistance to change at the neighborhood or project level. Find out how cities are implementing complete streets policies and learn about replicable models to measure and communicate progress.

Moderator:

• Seleta Reynolds, Livable Streets Section Leader, Sustainable Streets Division, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Speakers:

• Christine Green, Strategic Partnerships Manager, National Complete Streets Coalition
• Stefanie Seskin, State & Local Policy Manager, National Complete Streets Coalition

Schedule: 8:30am-11:30am (3 hours)

Walking defines mobility, bicycling is transportation, so why don’t we know more (and do more) to encourage more walking and bicycling and to keep pedestrians and bicyclists safe in our cities and towns? Learn about the latest in pedestrian and bicycle safety research from TRB and the world’s leading universities and offer your ideas for future research topics. Discover how crosswalk research has been applied to effect change in the MUTCD. At the optional lunch after this session, APBP inaugurates the Ken Cross Research Scholar Award.

Moderator:

• Tom Bertulis, PhD candidate, Northeastern University

Speakers:

• Janet Barlow, Research Associate, Accessible Design for the Blind, Asheville, NC
• Peter Furth, Professor of Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston
• Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute
• Ian Moore, Senior Associate, Fehr and Peers, Walnut Creek, CA
• Laura Sandt, Research Associate, UNC Highway Safety Research Center; Associate Director, Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

Connect via Skype:

• Norman Garrick, Director, Center for Transportation and Urban Planning University of Connecticut
• Robert Schneider, Researcher, University of California-Berkeley [currently at UC Davis]
• Rebecca Sanders, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley
  

Schedule: 8:30am-11:30am (3 hours)

Seville, Spain built a lightning speed bicycle culture for the world to see at VeloCity 2011. The 10 recommendations of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Mobility Scan in Europe are hot to be implemented. With 6 ThinkBike workshops under their belt, the Dutch seem serious about transforming world transportation culture. What happened before, during, and after ThinkBike Toronto, DC, Chicago, Miami, LA and SF? What cities are next up? This whirlwind session examines world-café style the international state of the practice, showing what’s expected globally and what should be on our planning, engineering, sustainability, economic and health horizons.

Moderator:

• Craig Williams, Senior Associate / Chicago Office Director, Alta Planning + Design

Speakers:

• Andy Clarke, President, League of American Bicyclists, VeloCity
• Mark de la Vergne, Project Manager, Sam Schwartz Engineering, Chicago, ThinkBike Chicago
• Jennifer Hefferan, Safe Routes to School Coordinator, District of Columbia Department of Transportation, ThinkBike Washington, DC
• Kit Keller, Executive Director, APBP, ThinkBike Miami, Int’l Scan Team
• Luis Montoya, Transportation Planner, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, ThinkBike San Francisco
• Los Angeles, ThinkBike Los Angeles TBA
• Velo-City 2012 TBA
• Walk21 TBA

This mobile workshop is a 6-mile on-bike tour highlighting some of Charlotte’s bikeway facilities. Bicycles will be provided. Participants will experience using on-street and off-street examples of Charlotte’s bicycle facilities. The development of bicycle lanes, signed routes, pathways, greenways, bicycle parking and bicycle-friendly transit policies created layers of facilities that encourage and facilitate bicycle transportation. The tour will include descriptions of projects completed through multi-departmental cooperation, street conversions and transit planning, including how planning for light rail enhanced opportunities to create a more bicycle-friendly community and provided the momentum to implement these projects in a timely manner.

Leader: Ken Tippette, Bicycle Program Manager, Charlotte DOT.

Schedule: 8:30am-11:30am (3 hours)

Cost: $35.

This walking tour will explore the technique and methods of discovery by foot, trekking portions of uptown Charlotte, including Tryon Street and one of the historic wards. You’ll experience many of Charlotte’s outstanding public realm features as you learn how you can engage people in the communities you serve by leading them on a walking audit. The discovery includes an interactive exploration by participants of streetscapes, urban development, urban infill, public space, parking and traffic management principles and practices. Wear comfortable shoes and weather appropriate attire.

Leaders:

• Vivian Coleman RLA, AICP, Center City Transportation Program Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation 704.309.2343 vcoleman@ci.charlotte.nc.us
• Jim Kimbler, James D. Kimbler Consulting (former City Center Transportation Program Manager)

Schedule: 8:30am-11:30am (3 hours)

Cost: $10.