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Nearly 150 presenters will combine their talents and knowledge in more than 60 sessions and dozens of poster presenations during the three-day Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2006 conference. Individual presenters and their topics will be listed in the Program/Schedule area of this Web site. Check out the Poster Presentations as well...click here.

Funding Approaches and Trends Karen Messmer & Jim Lazar Funding Local Pedestrian Improvements: Leaving Butt Prints in the Sands of Time Olympia, WA, City Council & Safe Streets Campaign Paula Reeves Post SAFETEA-LU: The Evolution of the Traditional Advocacy Model Washington St. DOT Peggy Rubach Win That Grant Maricopa County (AZ) Trends in Street Design Norman Cox Context Sensitive Design for Nonmotorized Facilities The Greenway Collaborative, Inc., Ann Arbor (MI) Cole Runge Circular Measures: The Impact of Roundabouts on Pedestrian and Bicycle Systems in Wisconsin and Throughout the United States Brown County (WI) Planning Commission Ryan Snyder New Urbanist Street Networks Ryan Snyder Associates, Los Angeles, CA Successful Advocacy - From Outside and Inside Tom Dodds Successful Statewide Conferences South Carolina DOT Bonnie Waninger Advocate or Planner: What’s your role and why? Northwest Regional Planning Commission, St Albans, VT Mark Wyatt Building An Advocacy Organization From the Ground Up Iowa Bicycle Coalition Safety through Law Enforcement Laura Hallam Florida Pedestrian/Bicycle Law Enforcement Course: Implimentation and Evaluation Florida Bicycle Association Ron Van Houten Bridging the gap - law enforcement and bicycle safety education Western Michigan University Robin Riessman Promoting pedestrian safety on a major university campus MassSAFE, Univ of Massachusetts Community Approaches to Encouraging Physical Activity Stacey King Fitness Buddies: A Social-Support Model to Increase Physical Activity Cambridge (MA) Public Health Dept. Sabrina McCarty Active Life = Healthy Life: Make the Connection with Chronic Disease Prevention Austin/Travis County (TX) Health & Human Services Dave Glowacz Doc Sez 'Move!' Prescriptions for Biking & Walking Chicagoland Bicycle Federation Replacing Car Trips with Biking and Walking Trips Ellen Barton SmartTrips: Community-wide Trip Reduction Innovations Whatcom Council of Governments, Bellingham, WA Linda Ginenthal Individualized Marketing - Successful, Measurable Programs That Get More People on Bikes and on Foot City of Portland (OR) Office of Transportation Kristin Hendricks Taking Lessons Learned from Safe Routes to School to the Worksite Fitness Council of Jackson, MI How to Move Your Agenda at the Local Level Dan Raine Resolving Conflicts, Building Consensus, Partnerships and Sponsorship Through the Project Development Process Houston-Galveston Area Council Rebecca Meert Community Walking and Bicycling! Advisory Groups: Why organize one and how to do it Brown County (WI) Health Department Jean Crow Governmental involvement in the Spartanburg (SC) active living movement Partners for Active Living, Spartanburg, SC Tom Samuels Have you hugged an engineer today? Working effectively with your local DOT City of Chicago City Council - 48th Ward Safe Routes: Keys to Long-term Change Beth Draeger From Safe Routes to Safe STEPS Eau Claire (WI) City-County Health Department Melody Geraci Building Regional SRTS Task Forces Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (IL) Wendi Kallins Safe Routes to Schools- Creating a Long-term sustainable program Marin County (CA) Bicycle Coalition Tools for Local Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning Susan Sauve Creating a Low Budget Sidewalk Strategic Plan City of Peterborough (ON) Canada Bruce Landis LOS for Bicycles along Urban Arterials Sprinkle Consulting, Inc., Lutz (FL) Jason Patton How Steep, Narrow, and Busy?: A Feasibility Analysis for Proposed Bikeway Networks City of Oakland (CA) In Pedestrian Planning, Success is in Details Megan Hoyt The Perfect Connection: getting the final 5% right Seattle (WA) Department of Transportation Vivian Coleman Sidewalk Program: Development of the Sidewalk Retrofit Policy City of Charlotte (NC) Department of Transportation The City of Charlotte Arthur Slabosky Illustrations of Small Measures for Walkability Michigan Dept. of Transportation Tales from the 25: Success stories and lessons learned from partnerships supported by Active Living by Design Rich Bell Tales from the 25: Success stories and lessons learned from partnerships supported by Active Living by Design Active Living by Design Fixing a Driving Culture that has Gone Awry Khalil Spencer Traffic Safety: An integrated ALARA approach Bicycle Coalition of New Mexico Janine Bauer Tackling New Jersey’s Too-High Pedestrian Fatality And Injury Rate Bauer Consulting Assoc.,Inc. New Tools From The U.S. Dept. of Transportation Sue Newberry Free! New Tools to Promote Active Communities Community Partners, Carson City (NV) Herman Huang Evaluation of FHWA's 'Pedestrian Safety Campaign Planner' in Missoula, MT, Savannah, GA, and Washington, DC Sprinkle Consulting, Inc., Lutz (FL) Bikeway Signage Models and MUTCD directions Grant Davis Chicago’s Bikeways Signage System: A Model for the Nation Chicago (IL) Department of Transportation Roger Geller Comprehensive Signing of a Bikeway Network City of Portland (OR) Richard Moeur What’s Likely in the Next MUTCD - And What’s Not? Arizona Dept. of Transportation Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic Signal Issues and Directions Sam Fielding Pedestrian Countdown Signals: Evaluation of the Citywide Installation in San Francisco San Francisco (CA) Municipal Transportation Agency Michael Vecchio Bicycles and Signal Timing City of Walnut Creek (CA) GIS Approaches in Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning Kristin Bennett Pedestrian Facilities Inventory Using GIS City of Colorado Springs (CO) Matt Haynes Using GIS Tools to Prioritize Pedestrian Improvements Fehr & Peers, San Francisco (CA) Greg Rybarczyk The Integration of Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Least Cost Path Analysis for Bicycle Facility Planning University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI) Sunday Parkways - A Taste of Latin America on the Streets Guillermo (Gil) Penalosa, Rob Sadowsky, and Pete Rangel Sunday Parkways -- A Taste of Latin America on the Streets Walk & Bike for Life, and Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (IL) Safe Routes to School Approaches in the Inner City Melody Geraci The Meaning of ‘Safe’: Inner-City Approaches and Challenges to Safe Routes to School Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (IL) Beth Gutelius Safe Routes to School programs: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Adjust the Hub Chicago (IL) Dept. of Transportation 'Share the Road' Campaigns Across the Country Felicia Leonard 'Share the Road' Media campaigns--do they work? City of Clearwater (FL) Pete Phair Share The Road For A Healthy Maine: Creating Population-Specific Media Messages to Make Roads Safer for Bicyclists & Motorists Bicycle Coalition of Maine Kim Baenisch What is Share The Road? Marin County Bicycle Coalition Theron Jeppson Share the Road With Bicycles For Driver Education Utah Department of Health Walkable/Bikeable School Routes and Combatting Childhood Obesity Jeffrey Sledge Using Bicycle Based Biometrics To Assess Childhood Obesity and Impacts on City Design Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Erik West Creating an Effective School Walking Routes Study Greater Portland (ME) Council of Governments Senior Connections: Walkable Neighborhoods and Safety Practices Lisa Cirill California’s Public Health Promoting Walkable Neighborhoods for Seniors California Department of Health Services Tom Samuels The Senior Connection: How seniors can take back their streets City of Chicago (IL) City Council - 48th Ward) Cheryl Wittke How to Build Community and Law Enforcement Partnerships to Improve Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Safe Community Coalition, Madison (WI) Making Ped/Bike Connections in Seattle, Boulder, and Eugene Megan Hoyt Eleven Things Seattle is Doing to Connect Itself Seattle (WA) Dept. of Transportation) Marni Ratzel Fine-tuning the system: making infrastructure work well GO Boulder/City of Boulder (CO) Lee Shoemaker Eugene - A Well Connected City City of Eugene (OR) Local Active Living Campaigns Deb Kreider Local Government Partners with Schools to Celebrate International Walk to School Day City of Naperville (IL) Stephanie Monroe Active Living in Spartanburg Upstate Forever, Spartanburg, (SC) Leigh Ann Von Hagen Healthy Living Comes To Town - Partnering transportation and health professionals to create active and healthy communities Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, New Brunswick (NJ) GIS Applications in Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning Heath Maddox Innovative GIS Applications for Pedestrian Planning: A routable sidewalk centerline network model for Berkeley, California City of Berkeley (CA) Office of Transportation David Schlabowske GIS yes, BLOS, no: why BLOS might not work for your streets Milwaukee (WI) Dept. of Public Works Marc Schlossberg Walkability and Participatory GIS University of Oregon, Eugene, OR How to Develop a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan Peter Lagerwey How to Develop a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan Seattle (WA) Dept. of Transportation Car Parking -- Macro and Micro Problems/Solutions Todd Boulanger Designing Street Parking for Bikeways: Back-in Diagonal Parking City of Vancouver (WA) Ryan Snyder Rethinking Auto Parking Policies Ryan Snyder Associates, Los Angeles (CA) Dustin White Making Bike Lanes and Bike Boxes Work...Better San Francisco (CA) Municipal Transportation Agency Boulder (CO) and Portland (OR) - The Evolution of Two Walkable/Bikeable Cities Mia Birk Bridging the Gaps: The Transformation of Portland OR Alta Planning + Design, Portland (OR) Martha Roskowski The Boulder story: A 20 year evolution GO Boulder, City of Boulder (CO) Long Distance Bike Routes - Then and Now Jim Sayer Re-conecting America by Bicycle Adventure Cycling Association John Piazza Closing the Gaps on the East Coast Greenway East Coast Greenway Alliance Jean-Franois Pronovost 3600 Km later: How did networking work to established the Quebec's Route verte? Velo Quebec Data - What it can tell us at the corridor, city, and national levels Bruce Landis Predicting Non-motorized Trips at the Corridor/Facility Level Sprinkle Consulting, Inc., Lutz (FL) Michael Jones National Bicycle & Pedestrian Documentation project: Trends and Patterns from 2005 Alta Planning + Design, San Rafael (CA) Howard Mann New York Bicycle Data Collection Revisited NY (NY) Metropolitan Transportation Council Trail Project Keys to Success Bob Otwell An 8-year dream: Stitching together a lost railroad right of way to connect a city trail and a country trail. TART Trails, Inc., Traverse City (MI) Peter Lagerwey Seattle's Chief Sealth Trail - A Success Story You Can Copy Seattle (WA) Dept. of Transportation Brigit Brown Shared Use/Trail Use Food Chain: When it Can Work and When it Doesn't Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Creating Bike/Ped-Friendly Cities - Campaigns, Analysis, and Plans Don Cook Walking the Walk: The Development of Effective Area Pedestrian Plans City of Saskatoon (SK) Robbie Webber Bicycle Friendly Communities in Wisconsin: Pulling the People and Pieces Together Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Seleta Reynolds Best Practices for Bikes and Peds in Transportation Impact Analyses Fehr & Peers, San Francisco (CA) Making tough decisions: go with the data or what the public says it wants? Or doesn’t want Michael Ronkin Making tough decisions: go with the data or what the public says it wants? Or doesn’t want Oregon Dept. of Transportation Where the Trail Meets the Road Theodore Petritsch Bicycle Facility Selection and Sidepath Design Guidelines Sprinkle Consulting, Inc., Lutz (FL) William Schultheiss An Engineer's Perspective Beyond the Stop Sign on Trail/Roadway Intersection Design Toole Design Group, College Park (MD) Making the Bike/Transit Connection Robert Schneider Connecting Bicycles and Transit: Growth During the Last Decade and Trends for the Future Toole Design Group, College Park (MD) Kiran Limaye The Last Mile: Connecting Bikes & Transit TriMet, Portland (OR) Michelle Mowery Orange Line Bike Path: Integrating a Bikeway within a Bus Rapid Transit Corridor City of Los Angeles (CA) Connecting with Minority and Disadvantaged Youth Eve Jennings Chicago's Junior Bicycling Ambassadors; or How We Took 75 Inner-City Youth and Created Bicycling Advocates Chicagoland Bicycle Federation (IL) Richard Dugas Montreal’s Velogik project: community through experiential learning and employability Carrefour jeunesse emploi Saint-Laurent, projet Velogik Kenneth Walker City Making Connections to the Minority Community: The Story of the Major Taylor Foundation of Greater Kansas City Major Taylor Foundation of Greater Kansas School Connections Overseas - Japan, UK, & Australia Ken Spence Raising the Standard, How A National Cycle Training Standard is leading the way in revitalising cycling in the UK Transport Initiatives Limited Liability Partnership, Leeds (UK) Shoko Kumagai Safe Routes to School in Japan Feet First, Seattle (WA) Ted Wilson School travel planning - a toolkit to assist schools examine the issue and to develop their own travel plans Wilcare Services P/L, Geelong (AU) Life and Times/A Day in the Life of a Coordinator Mia Birk The Life and Times of A Bicycle & Pedestrian Professional Alta Planning + Design, Portland (OR) Sheree Davis Bridging the Great Divide - A Day in the Life of a State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator New Jersey Dept. of Transportation Mapping Approaches for Walkable/Bikeable Communities Brett Hondorp Pasadena’s Suggested Routes to School Program Alta Planning + Design, Berkeley (CA) David Henry Painting the Town Red with Google Maps Walkable St. Louis (MO) Doug Johnson Interactive Bicycle Mapping in the San Fracisco Bay Area - BikeMapper Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland (CA) Getting Your Message Out Claire Stock Broadcast & Web Media for Bike/Walk Publicity City of Edmonton (AB), Canada Deb Hubsmith Safe Routes to School: Making Connections with the Media Safe Routes to School National Partnership Gordon Mayer Preaching to the Non-Choir Community Media Workshop, Chicago (IL) Audrey Warren Getting your message across the battlefield New Orleans (LA) Regional Planning Commission Non-Motorized Pilot Project Communities - Canada and the US John Fegan The Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program - What is it and why does it matter? U.S. Federal Highway Administration Sabine Schweiger Whitehorse Moves to the path of alternative commuting City of Whitehorse (YT) Canada Complete Streets - Who's Doing It and What They're Doing Roger Henderson New Complete Street Spacing Guide to Match Land Use Intensity Kimley-Horn and Associates, Cary (NC) Barbara McCann Making Connections, Completing the Streets McCann Consulting, Washington (DC) Tracy Newsome Charlotte’s 'Six Step' Planning and Design Process: A Complete Street Case Study Charlotte (NC) Dept. of Transportation) Barbara Culp Complete Streets: Innovative Approaches Bicycle Alliance of Washington (State) Creating Town/Gown Connections in College Towns Colleen Mitchell Creating Campus Connections: Multi-modal planning in the campus environment Toole Design Group, College Park (MD) Madis Pihlak 'I Just Want to Cross the Street': Everyday Pedestrian Connections Pennsylvania State University Susan Powell Making Community Connections for bicycling and walking: enriching the town/gown relationship between the city of Ithaca and Cornell University Cornell University Transportation Services Sustainable Happiness - The Role of Biking and Walking Catherine O’Brien Planning for Sustainable Happiness Centre for Sustainable Transportation, Eganville (ON), Canada Andrew Stuck Romantic pedestrian network design? What nonsense! Rethinking Travel, London (VT) Walk THIS Way Ellen Vanderslice Walk THIS Way   Making Your Advocacy Efforts Pay Off Sue Newberry Making Advocacy Work America Walks Andy Hamilton Tune-Up for Pedestrian Advocacy Organizations America Walks States Moving Ahead with Safe Routes to School Elise Bremer-Nei Walk and Wheel - How New Jersey kicked its Safe Routes to School program into high gear New Jersey Dept. of Transportation Charlotte Claybrooke Bringing the pieces together -- Washington State’s Safe Routes to School Partnership Washington St. Dept. of Transportation Bending Current Guidelines and a Look at the UK's New Ones Cheryl Schmitt Non-Standard Design Solutions: When Bending the Rules Makes Sense and When It Doesn’t City of Santa Cruz (CA) Tom Bertulis Updating Great Britain's Cycle Design Guidelines Cycling Scotland Marc Jolicoeur Accessibility by Bicycle to Downtown Montreal Velo Quebec Transportation Enhancement Activities, Recreational Trails Program, and the National Trails Training Partnership Christopher Douwes Transportation Enhancement Activities, Recreational Trails Program, and the National Trails Training Partnership U.S. Federal Highway Administration Training the Engineers Theodore Petritsch NHI’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Facility Design Courses Sprinkle Consulting, Inc., Lutz (FL) Lois Chaplin Local Roads Program Connecting with the Highway Guy Cornell University What to Do When You're Not Madison or Portland: Creating Bike/Ped-Friendly Places in East Tennessee Kelley Segars & Ellen Zavisca Connect 4! Bringing together elected officials, planners, engineers and citizens Knoxville (KY) Regional Transportation Planning Organization Philip Pugliese Chattanooga - Pedal Pushing Partnerships Outdoor Chattanooga, TN Melissa Dickinson Taylor Activate Chattanooga: Creating Safe Routes to Reverse Childhood Inactivity in Hamilton County Chattanooga-Hamilton