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• Making the Bike/Transit Connection (Meeting Room E)
  Workshop 1 - Robert Schneider, (Toole Design Group), will present results of the study, "Integration of Bicycles and Transit," including innovations, and future trends. Topics include bicycle-bus and bicycle-rail integration; ferry and vanpool integration; and more. Kiran Limaye (Portland (OR) Region's TriMet), will discuss low cost solutions -- bike parking and "bike-on-bus" services -- to help people travel "the last mile." Michelle Mowery, (City of Los Angeles), will discuss their partnership with the regional transportation authority to integrate a 14-mile bike facility into a bus rapid transit project within a defunct rail corridor. Lisa Falvy of Sportsworks Northwest, Inc. moderates this panel.
  
  
• 'Share the Road' Campaigns Across the Country (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 2 - All four presenters are working under "Share the Road" grants from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Felicia Leonard, (City of Clearwater, FL), will share a comprehensive multi-media campaign. Pete Phair, (Bicycle Coalition of Maine), will discuss project partner selection, research & data collection, and communications models. Kim Baenisch, (Marin County, CA, Bicycle Coalition), will highlight successful campaigns nationwide researched for a national Toolkit. Theron Jeppson, (Utah Dept. of Health), will discuss development, testing, and results of a video project. Paula Bawer of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) moderates this panel.
  
  
• Bikeway Signage Models and MUTCD Directions (Meeting Room G)
  Workshop 3 - Grant Davis, (Chicago Dept. of Transportation), will discuss the city's 160 mile signed bikeway network (2,500 signs). Topics include scope and design, route determination, destination guidelines, sign placement guidelines, system evaluation, and FHWA approval for experimentation. Roger Geller, (City of Portland, OR), will describe his city's comprehensive bikeway network signing and marking project; the presentation will cover design and implementation, and citizen response. Richard Moeur, (AZ Dept. of Transportation), will discuss signs, markings, and other traffic control device proposals affecting bicyclists and pedestrians that are likely to be in the next edition of the Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), and which ones aren't -- and why.
  
  
• In Pedestrian Planning, Success Is In The Details (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 4 - Megan Hoyt, (Seattle, WA, Dept. of Transportation), will show how a well-intentioned sidewalk project can get 95% of the details right, but then something goes awry. The presentation focuses on connectivity details and key elements to success. Vivian Coleman, (Charlotte, NC, Dept. of Transportation), will describe a new sidewalk policy that allows greater public participation on local and collector streets within established neighborhoods. Arthur Slabosky, (MI Dept. of Transportation), will discuss several intersections and corridors in the Lansing, Michigan, area that illustrate how barriers to non-motorized transportation can be small and short; the removal of these barriers, however, has to be encoded into law to become successful.
  
  
• Economic Impact of Bicycling in Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon (Meeting Room KLOP)
  Workshop 5 - Chuck Strawser, (Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin), will discuss studies and data estimating the economic impact of bicycle tourism, recreation, and racing in the state. Tom Huber, (WI Dept. of Transportation) will present estimates of the economic impact of bicycle-related manufacturing, wholesale distribution, and retail, to estimate the total economic impact of bicycling in Wisconsin. Mia Birk, (Alta Planning + Design) will present data on the burgeoning bicycle-related industry in Portland (OR), which contributes tens of millions in revenue to Portland's local economy along with hundreds of local jobs. Business owners report that Portland's investment in bicycling infrastructure andpromotion has led them to relocate here, expand their business, and increase their revenue
  
  
• Tales from the 25: Success Stories and Lessons Learned from Partnerships Supported by Active Living by Design (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 6 - This session will feature brief panel presentations highlighting success stories and lessons learned from diverse, active living partnerships. Presentations will focus particular attention on resource development by partnerships, improving the built environment through policy advocacy, and pursuing health goals through parks and trails initiatives. Panelists’ remarks will be followed by a facilitated discussion with the audience.
  
  
• Creating Bike/Ped-Friendly Cities - Campaigns, Analysis, and Plans (Meeting Room J)
  Workshop 7 - Don Cook, (City of Saskatoon, SK), will talk about Area Pedestrian Planning, a simple, concise methodology to predict pedestrian routes to/from new development and redevelopment sites, quantify pedestrian trips, and select appropriate facilities. Robbie Webber, (Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin), will discuss using the League of American Bicyclists' Bicycle Friendly Community program to improve the bicycling environment and culture in Wisconsin cities and towns. Elements include identifying physical improvements, forming advocacy groups and advisory committees, and offering workshops and resources. Seleta Reynolds, (Fehr & Peers), will discuss new tools (e.g., smart growth checklists) to help planners, engineers, citizens, and developers measure development impacts on bicyclists and pedestrians; identify improvements; and determining funding mechanisms.

• Safety through Law Enforcement (Meeting Room E)
  Workshop 8 - Laura Hallam, (Florida Bicycle Association), will discuss their statewide education campaign for law enforcement professionals; the focus is on bicycling traffic law offenders as related to injuries and fatalities. Ron Van Houten, (Western Michigan University), will review the success of a Florida pedestrian law enforcement program and present data showing that enforcement of pedestrian right-of-way can increase yielding to pedestrians at traffic signals and uncontrolled marked and unmarked crosswalks. Sergeant Dave Black, University of Massachusetts Police Department, will discuss the “Cross Safely, Drive Safely” project conducted at the University of Massachusetts, which is designed to promote pedestrian safety through a collaborative, comprehensive and sustained program on a major university campus.
  
  
• Connecting Childhood Obesity to Physical Activity and Creating Effective School Walking Routes (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 9 - Jeffrey Sledge, (University of Wisconsin/Madison), will present the work of a team from a UW research lab, pediatric clinic, and the bicycle industry, analyzing bicycling's role in healthy life-styles and healthy city design. The team joined power and biometric sensors with GPS receivers to reveal the energy children expend as they pedal through cities. Erik West, (Greater Portland (ME) Council of Governments), will discuss a study of the Safe Walking Routes Study process used at 13 schools in Portland, Maine, to identify problems and secure funding for improvements. Topics examined include crossing guards, infrastructure, snow removal, policy, and local agency issues.
  
  
• How to Move Your Agenda at the Local Level (Meeting Room G)
  Workshop 10 - Dan Raine, (Houston-Galveston Area Council, TX), will explain how to build support and develop partnerships during the project development process by knowing your audiences, stakeholders, potential investors, and having a clear understanding of the issues. Rebecca Meert, (Brown County, WI, Health Department) will discuss her agency's work in developing Walking and Bicycling Advisory Groups. Topics will include: why organize; who needs to participate; how to work with local officials. Jean Crow, (Partners for Active Living, Spartanburg, SC), will discuss Spartanburg's campaign to become a Bicycle-Friendly Community and how to get your local government and business leaders engaged in the active-living movement. Tom Samuels (Chicago City Council) will discuss tools for challenging entrenched traffic engineering models (e.g. "Level of Service") and strategies for working around them.
  
  
• Bending Current Guidelines and a Look at the UK's New Ones (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 11 - Cheryll Schmitt, (City of Santa Cruz, CA), will discuss the challenges of limited rights-of-way and accommodating all roadway users; designers needs the courage to propose creative solutions to cautious risk managers and policy makers. Tom Bertulis, (Cycling Scotland), will present the revamped United Kingdom cycle design guidelines, based on ideas from many countries, as well as innovative cycle schemes in the United Kingdom. Marc Jolicoeur, (Velo Quebec), will discuss Montreal's efforts to promote walking, biking, and transit. Topics covered will include bus and bikes lanes, contraflow bike lanes, traffic calming, signing and marking innovations, and more.
  
  
• New Tools From The U.S. Dept. of Transportation (Meeting Room KLOP)
  Workshop 12 - Sue Newberry, (Community Partners), will present excerpts from six new ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations, test the audience's knowledge with a new electronic ped/bike self-test, select tools for managing neighborhood traffic and learn where to access these new tools. Herman Huang, (Sprinkle Consulting, Inc.), will discuss the Federal Highway Administration's Pedestrian Safety Campaign Planner, which includes public service announcements, posters, and other materials. The Campaign Planner was evaluated in Missoula, MT, Savannah, GA, and Washington, DC.
  
  
• Remaking and Relinking the Suburbs for Walking and Bicycling (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 13 - Dan Burden. (Walkable Communities, Inc. and Glatting, Jackson), and his co-presenters, Michael Ronkin, (Oregon Dept. of Transportation), and Peter Lagerwey, (Seattle, WA, Dept. of Transportation), will discuss how the streets, buildings and mixed-use villages of the future will look, act and feel like for the pedestrian and bicyclist. This discussion will take the best of new urban and suburban re-making in 5-10 cities and identify new partnerships that are bringing back economic life to areas needing them the most.
  
  
• Replacing Car Trips with Biking and Walking Trips (Meeting Room J)
  Workshop 14 - Ellen Barton, (Whatcom Council of Governments, Bellingham, WA), will describe "Whatcom SmartTrips," a comprehensive program to help residents cut automobile trips uses individualized marketing, and incentive programs to encourage walking, bicycling, and bus trips. Linda Ginenthal, City of Portland (OR) Office of Transportation, will discuss the award winning "Getting Around Portland Hub" program, which realized an 8.6% reduction in drive-alone car trips and a 46.7% increase in environmentally-friendly trips. Kristin Hendricks, (Fitness Council of Jackson, MI), will discuss how the community took lessons learned from their Safe Routes to School program and applied them to the worksite. Program components include Personalized Active Transportation Plans, company bikes programs, and more.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Poster Session 1 & Refreshment Break

3:15 PM – 5:30 PM
MOBILE WORKSHOP A
Madison Downtown Pedestrian Tour
This walking workshop will begin at the Convention Center and will highlight some of the pedestrian problems and solutions in the downtown Madison area. The workshop will be of interest to proponents of urban pedestrian safety. (In addition to the mobile workshop, this tour is offered in two versions – Downtown East and Downtown West – as a self-guided tour with cue sheets. A post conference workshop will also be offered; check at the Local Host Committee table during the conference.)

MOBILE WORKSHOP B
Ice Age Junction Walk
The Ice Age Trail Junction offers a new vision of urban development in which a walking trail, in this case the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, is the organizing factor for land use planning. The parkland inspired by the trail, including 200 acres of restored prairie, is set aside and new housing is developed around it, allowing surrounding communities to maintain their separate identities and avoid urban sprawl. Gary Werner, a visionary in trail and community planning, will lead the workshop.

MOBILE WORKSHOP C
Madison Bicycle Facilities Tour
Being squeezed into a narrow isthmus between two lakes and major automobile thoroughfares creates many challenges for the urban bicycle facilities planner and engineer. This bicycling mobile workshop will illustrate solutions to problems encountered in this difficult environment and show how Madison was able to win a Gold award as a bicycle friendly community. The workshop follows a lakeshore path, a creek path, a rail-to-trail path, bike lanes, and calmed neighborhood streets. (You can also take this ride as a self-guided tour with cue sheets, available at the Local Host Committee table.)

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Period Three:

• Local Active Living Campaigns (Meeting Room E)
  Workshop 15 - Deb Kreider, (City of Naperville, IL), will discuss how the City has teamed up with two school districts to promote International Walk to School Day. The result? Twenty-five schools participating in 2005, and 8,000+ students walking or biking to school. Stephanie Monroe, (Upstate Forever), will discuss the Spartanburg (SC) Active Living Assessment, which involves reviewing local plans, regulations, and ordinances; and identifying opportunities, incentives, and possible regulatory changes. Leigh Ann Von Hagen, (Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers Univ.), will introduce participants to the Mayors Wellness Campaign, a program to equip local government with model tools, strategies and programs to implement healthy living initiatives.
  
  
• School Connections Overseas - Japan, UK, & Australia (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 16 - Ken Spence, (Transport Initiatives, Leeds, UK), will discuss the new British National Standard for cycle training and its role in encouraging cycling among the young. Shoko Kumagai, (Feet First, Seattle, WA), will present an overview of walking and biking to school in Japan; with a long history of safe routes to school success, Japanese initiatives have much to teach. Ted Wilson and Maree Burn (Wilcare Services, Geelong, AU), will present case studies of education programs and school travel plans.
  
  
• Working In - And With - Diverse Communities (Meeting Room G)
  Workshop 17 - Pete Rangel, (Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), discusses how advocates can expand their organizing in diverse communities. Organizations like CBF have developed expertise and experience in increasing bicycling and walking within African American and Latino neighborhoods. Rob Sadowsky, (Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), will describe how CBF targets and engages community-based organizations in diverse areas to open doors to other strategic contacts, such as clinicians, to promote active transportation programs and leverage the CBOs to grow community-wide adoption.
  
  
• What to Do When You're Not Madison or Portland: Creating Bike/Ped-Friendly Places in East Tennessee (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 18 - Kelley Segars and Ellen Zavisca (Knoxville, TN, Regional Trans. Planning Organization), will discuss building connections among bicycle advocates, agencies, and people interested in promoting active living and Safe Routes to School. Philip Pugliese, (Outdoor Chattanooga, TN) will discuss how Chattanooga has begun integrating bicycle facilities into its transportation system. Melissa Dickinson Taylor (Chattanooga-Hamilton Co., TN, Regional Planning Agency) will discuss the unique Chattanooga partnership dedicated to increasing physical activity through better community design and education.
  
  
• Bike-Ped Facilities and Freeway Interchanges (Meeting Room J)
  Workshop 19 - Michelle DeRobertis, (Santa Clara Valley, CA) Transportation Authority), will: 1) give you the vocabulary to talk to the engineers designing the interchange; 2) tell you the design parameters that make the ramp intersection with the surface street bike-friendly or bike-hell; 2) give you examples of success stories so that you can refer to a precedent for good design. Mary Ann Koos (Florida Dept. of Transportation), will discuss several successful examples of incorporating bike and pedestrian facilities into interstate modification projects. James Mackay, (City of Denver, CO), will discuss a recently completed interstate PDE project with a bridge to connect a shared-use path.
  
  
• Getting Walkable Communities - Through Incentives, Laws, and Working With Developers (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 20 - Stephan Vance, (San Diego, CA, Association of Governments), will discuss SANDAG's framework for using transportation funding decisions as an incentive for smart growth development around the region. The first direct application of this policy was a Smart Growth Incentive Program funded through the Transportation Enhancements program. Betty Drake, (Scottsdale, AZ, City Council), will shows how to negotiate effectively for bike/ped improvements and how to leverage your position as a government staff member, advocate, consultant or local official to benefit the community AND the developer's project. Cole Runge, (Brown County, WI, Planning Commission), will discuss how effective various Smart Growth laws have been in making communities more accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists, and will give details of Wisconsin's Smart Growth law and how the law has been applied.
  
  
• National Safe Routes Programs and Resources (Meeting Room KLOP)
  Workshop 21 - Deb Hubsmith, (Safe Routes to School National Partnership) will highlight what the Safe Routes to School National Partnership is doing to help ensure that the $612 million in federal funds is used for the widest community benefit throughout the United States. The Partnership is committed to working collaboratively with FHWA, the National SRTS Clearinghouse, and State DOTs, while continuing to serve as 'the voice of the people' for Safe Routes to School. Tim Arnade, (Federal Highway Administration Safe Routes to School Coordinator), will discuss how the new Federal Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS) provides each State Department of Transportation with a minimum of one million dollars annually to undertake projects and activities to enable and encourage more children to walk and bike to school. Lauren Marchetti, (Univ. of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center), will present an overview of the clearinghouse on the National Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program, a federal initiative established to create safe settings where more parents and children can walk and bicycle to school.

5:30 PM
Conference adjourns for the day

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Theater
Special evening presentations in the Monona Terrace Conference Center

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