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• Trail Project Keys to Success (Meeting room E)
  Workshop 22 - Bob Otwell, (TART Trails, Inc.) will describe an 8-year dream in Traverse City, Michigan: stitching together a lost railroad right-of-way to connect a city trail and a country trail that ended a half-mile away. Barriers included 13 private property owners, wetlands, and significant safety issues. Follow the collaborative effort that ended in trail success. Then Peter Lagerway, (Seattle, WA, Dept. of Transportation), will describe a success story you can copy: Seattle’s Chief Sealth Trail. This ten million dollar multi-purpose trail is being constructed through a unique public/private partnership with a local contractor. Using clean, recycled materials from the construction of a new light rail system, the contractor is paying for most of the trail construction costs. This workshop will provide sample agreements (handouts) along with a step by step guide for how to do this in your community.
  
  
• Long Distance Bike Routes - Then and Now (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 23 - Jim Sayer, (Adventure Cycling Association), will discuss the collaborative process under way to create national, signed networks of interconnected bicycle routes; partners in this effort include The American Assoc. of State Highway & Trans. Officials (AASHTO) Adventure Cycling, and other leaders. John Piazza, (East Coast Greenway Alliance), will discuss the construction of an off-road trail from Maine to Florida. With 30% completed, the Alliance is launching a campaign to "Close the Gaps." Jean-Francois Pronovost, (Velo Quebec), will explain how the Route Verte, a city to city bicycle route, has, since 1995, been extending all across the province of Quebec. More than 80% of the itinerary is now completed and its international official opening is planned for the summer of 2007.
  
  
• Crash Analysis - Uses and Approaches (Meeting Room G)
  Workshop 24 - Ruth Steiner, (Univ. of Florida), and David Henderson (Miami-Dade County, FL) will discuss the collaborative efforts to map and analyze the locations of bicycle and pedestrian crashes in Florida counties with the most bicycle and pedestrian crashes. Tom Huber and Michael Amsden, (Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation) will discuss a statewide crash analysis undertaken to type all 2003 bicycle/motor vehicle crashes, then to identify relationships between reported bicycle/motor vehicle crashes and roadway characteristics. Libby Thomas, (Univ. of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center), will describe recent improvements to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool (PBCAT) software; in addition, she will describe present examples of applications of the previous version.
  
  
• Tools for Local Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning (Meeting Room J)
  Workshop 25 - Susan Sauve, (City of Peterborough, ONT), will describe how a team of City staff are creating a Sidewalk Strategic Plan by applying weighted criteria to an in-house GIS mapping system. She will discuss how little time is required if municipalities have GIS mapping systems in place. Bruce Landis, (Sprinkle Consulting, Inc.), will present a new bicycle level of service model that accurately measures bicycle accommodation along urban arterials, based on an innovative "Ride for Science" event. Jason Patton, (City of Oakland, CA), will describe three analytic tools for examining the feasibility of proposed bikeways. The tools are simple enough to apply over large areas while robust enough to guide the planning and implementation of new facilities.
  
  
• Complete Streets - Who's Doing It and What They're Doing (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 26 - Roger Henderson, (Kimley-Horn and Associates), will discuss the benefits of interconnecting urban street networks (e.g., shorter pedestrian paths, direct bicycle routes, efficient private vehicle travel, etc.). Barbara McCann, (McCann Consulting), will describe how "Complete Streets" campaigns can help make connections with constituencies far beyond bicycling and walking interests. She will discuss how the National Complete Streets Coalition can help build strong coalitions. Tracy Newsome, (Charlotte, NC, Dept. of Transportation) will present Charlotte's Urban Street Design Guidelines' Six-Step planning and design process and show its application to a sample case study street segment. Barbara Culp, (Bicycle Alliance of Washington), will describe how two dozen bicycle activists collaborated with a city councilman to create the framework for a bicycle master plan -- complete with a complete streets policy.
  
  
• Neighborhood Advocates Speak Out (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 27 - The Active Living Resource Center, a project of National Center for Bicycling & Walking (supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) has invited eight neighborhood delegates to this year's Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference. These delegates, chosen from applicants around the country, are representatives of hundreds of local organizations trying to make changes in their neighborhoods and communities. In this session, each of the ALRC delegates will have a chance to briefly describe their local projects. Then they'll discuss how their needs (requests for help, tech assistance, etc.) have been met by local professionals the municipal engineer, planner, public health official and by transportation, planning, health advocates. Who has been there for them? What can we (those of us who are in the know) do better for them? What tools and resources do they need, and what can we provide? NCBW's Bob Chauncey will moderate the panel."

• Getting Your Message Out (Meeting Room E)
  Workshop 28 - Claire Stock, (City of Edmonton, AB), will discuss how to take back the media and create good cycling and walking messages and share will share programming advice from planning engaging interviews to reacting to hot media issues. Deb Hubsmith, (Safe Routes to School National Partnership), will highlight success stories and provide a how-to to get your Safe Routes to School program ready for front page headlines on International Walk to School Day (October 4). Audrey Warren, (New Orleans Regional Planning Commission), will discuss how social marketing techniques were employed to develop a bi-weekly e-newsletter with content specifically targeting the non-bike/ped-friendly traffic professional.
  
  
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning Using GIS (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 29 - Kristin Bennett, (City of Colorado Springs, CO), will discuss the City's first citywide pedestrian facilities inventory, which used a combination of powerful technical tools (GIS, Cartograph video) and low-cost or low tech approaches (intern labor, transit training videos, and minimal field work). Matt Haynes, (Fehr & Peers), will discuss Geographic Information Systems (GIS), as tools to assess a community's walking needs and prioritize improvements. One process for prioritizing pedestrian improvements involves the use of the Ped INDEX GIS tool, which is adapted from the Environmental Protection Agency's Smart Growth INDEX. Greg Rybarczyk, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), will illustrate a bicycle facility planning framework and methodology using GIS and a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.
  
  
• America Walks to School - Coast-to-Coast Stories of Establishing Community-based SRTS Programs (Meeting Room G)
  Workshop 30 - David Levinger, (Feet First, Seattle, WA), Jen Cole, (Feet First, Seattle, WA), Anne Geraghty, (WALKSacramento), Dorothea Hass, (WalkBoston), and Ian Thomas (PedNet Coalition, Columbia, MO), will share experiences of four non-profit organizations that have established walk to school programs resulting in greater community interest in pedestrian conditions. The panel presents their experiences in creating effective advocacy that leads to environmental improvements and behavior change in Massachusetts, Missouri, California and Washington.
  
  
• Connecting with Minority and Disadvantaged Youth (Meeting Room KLOP)
  Workshop 31 - Public school students from underserved neighborhoods in Chicago trained in an after-school apprenticeship program to be bicycling advocates. Those who completed the training received summer jobs teaching bicycling safety to Chicago day campers. Eve Jennings, (Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), provides a look at the behind-the-scenes effort to convince four NPOs, four governmental agencies, and three corporate sponsors to join together to do something unprecedented. Richard Dugas, (Projet Velogik), describes the Montreal project: community through experiential learning and employability. Richard focuses on the project’s making strong community connections as an integrator of marginalized people, and as a catalyst for local businesses to get involved. Kenneth Walker (Major Taylor Foundation of Greater Kansas City) describes the story of the Foundation, and how it is making connections into Kansas City, Missouri’s, minority community. You’ll learn how his son Christian Griffin’s courage to enter his first bicycle race on an old 10-speed changed his career focus, and how together they are transforming Kansas City’s cycling community.
  
  
• Training the Engineers (Meeting Room J)
  Workshop 32 - Theodore Petritsch, (Sprinkle Consulting, Inc.), will describe two new courses being offered by the FHWA: the National Highway Institute’s Bicycle Facility Design and Pedestrian Facility Design. These courses cover trends, issues, and the current state of the art regarding the design of non-motorized facilities. This presentation outlines the study material, learning objectives, and benefits of these courses, which teach participants how to apply existing standards and how to deal with technical issues involved in better accommodating bicycling and walking. Lois Chaplin, (Cornell University), will discuss the critical factor of connectivity for pedestrians and cyclists, and how it isn’t necessarily on the radar screen of those responsible for these less-than-urban environments. Lois will describe how the Cornell Local Roads Program is reaching out to highway superintendents and public works officials responsible for the state’s local roads to get them on board with infrastructure for non-motorized users.
  
  
• Trends in Street Design (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 33 - Norman Cox, (The Greenway Collaborative, Inc.), will provide an overview of a context sensitive design approach for non-motorized transportation facilities, developed for the Michigan Department of Transportation. The system considers the project's type and lifespan, the existing or projected landscape context, and many other factors to make recommendations for appropriate non-motorized facilities. Cole Runge, (Brown County, WI, Planning Commission), will discuss the impact of single- and multi-lane roundabouts on pedestrian and bicycle systems in several locations in Wisconsin. Ryan Snyder, (Ryan Snyder Associates), will describe the types of street networks that enhance walking and bicycling through favorable hierarchy, block size, connectivity, street width and other design criteria.
  
  
• Transportation Enhancement Activities, Recreational Trails Program, and the National Trails Training Partnership (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 34 - Christopher Douwes, (Federal Highway Administration), and his co-presenters (Brigit Brown, the Wisconsin St. Trails Coordinator; and Stuart MacDonald, of American Trails and the National Trails Training Partnership) will discuss several national efforts of use to trail developers and advocates. First, the FHWA's Transportation Enhancement activities and Recreational Trails Program provide funds to develop transportation and recreation infrastructure for walking and bicycling and to promote active living. The National Trails Training Partnership (NTTP) offers training for all kinds of trail related activities.

12 noon - 1:30 PM
Lunch On Your Own

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Period Six:

• Funding Approaches and Trends (Meeting Room E)
  Workshop 35 - Karen Messmer, (Olympia (WA) City Council), and Jim Lazar, Olympia (WA) Safe Streets Campaign, will discuss funding local pedestrian improvements. She says the first law of politics is: GET THE MONEY! Learn how Olympia, Washington, moved from a 100+year backlog of sidewalk projects to installing $750,000/year in projects, and the process leading to a voter-approved effort for a dedicated tax just for walking facilities. Paula Reeves, (Washington State Dept. of Transportation), will discuss how securing federal and state funding commitments to Safe Routes to Schools and Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety changed the focus and function of bicycle and pedestrian advocacy across the country, and will describe new skills and tools that are now useful to advocates and government representatives. Peggy Rubach, (Maricopa Co., AZ, Dept. of Transportation), will tell you how to secure the money your project deserves. Learn how to choose the right grant for the right project, build a winning team with non-traditional partners, and harness the clout and talents of your stakeholders.
  
  
• Non-Traditional Partners Leading Community Change (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 36 - This session will feature a facilitated discussion between the audience and a diverse panel of three non-traditional bike/ped leaders engaged in promoting active living at the neighborhood and city levels. The panelists will briefly introduce their experience and perspectives before engaging audience members and each other in a lively discussion about partnership, leadership, designing effective initiatives, and working at the community level to engage more people in routine physical activity. This session is hosted by Active Living by Design, a national program office of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports communities to increase routine physical activity and healthy eating through community design.
  
  
• Sunday Parkways: A Taste of Latin America on the Streets (Meeting Room KLOP)
  Workshop 37 - Guillermo (Gil) Penalosa, President, Walk & Bike for Life and former Commissioner of Sports, Recreation and Parks, will describe the growing Sunday Parkway movement of in Latin America. Beginning in Bogota, Columbia, and moving northward and southward, urban communities are closing arterial boulevards to motor vehicle traffic every Sunday. Learn how Chicago is looking to Latin America to bring this exciting event to the North. Rob Sadowsky and Pete Rangel, (Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), will describe Chicago’s efforts.
  
  
• GIS Applications in Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 38 - Heath Maddox, (Berkeley, CA, Office of Transportation), will describe an innovative GIS application for pedestrian planning: a routable sidewalk centerline network model created to analyze Berkeley’s system of sidewalks, curb ramps, and crosswalks in preparation for that city’s first Pedestrian Master Plan. This presentation describes and demonstrates the development of the model, and its potential application in ongoing maintenance and construction. David Schlabowske, (Milwaukee, WI, Depart. of Public Works), will discuss why a BLOS (Bicycle Level of Service) analysis might not work for your streets, and how to create a GIS inventory of a city’s bikeways and streets networks useful for network planning. Marc Scholssberg, (University of Oregon), will demonstrate a community assessment tool using PDAs that can gather data for safe routes to school, access to transit, and other walking and bicycling applications.
  
  
• Car Parking: Macro and Micro Problems & Solutions (Meeting Room J)
  Workshop 39 - How can city planners best integrate on-street car parking with bike lanes? Todd Boulanger, (City of Vancouver, WA), will discuss how several cities have installed a historic form of diagonal parking (back-in or reverse angle) and updated it with bike lanes for important bike and parking corridors? Most cities across the US require parking at each land use and encourage land owners to subsidize auto parking. Ryan Snyder, (Ryan Snyder Associates), will turn that policy on its head and suggests alternative ways of dealing with parking codes, parking pricing and parking meters. Dustin White, (San Francisco Municipal Trans. Agency), will evaluate alternative parking stall markings adjacent to bike lanes, with the aim of encouraging cyclists to ride outside the door zone.
  
  
• Safe Routes: Keys to Long-term Change (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 40 - Beth Draeger, (Eau Claire, WI, City-County Health Dept.), will discuss the Safe STEPS Workgroup that partnered with elementary schools in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The partner base included City-County health, the police department, city planning, and Parks & Rec departments. Melody Geraci, (Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), will describe best practices when building regional SRTS task forces, and the importance of input from local and regional stakeholders. Wendi Kallins, (Marin County, CA, Bicycle Coalition), will describe how Marin County, California, has taken a pilot program and created a long-term, sustainable SRTS program that will be funded through a transportation sales tax.

1:45 PM – 5:30 PM
MOBILE WORKSHOP D
Pheasant Branch Trail and Conservancy
This walking workshop will illustrate an amazing community success story that transformed an abused and degraded landscape into a popular recreation and non-motorized transportation corridor. The workshop will also consider the natural and human history of the area and illustrate the engineering, planning and cooperative initiatives that brought this project to fruition. Public transportation will be used to take participants to and from the activity. (Several post-conference options will be available; check at the Local Host Committee table.)

MOBILE WORKSHOP E
Lakeshore Path and Picnic Point
This is the one walk that is a quintessential Madison experience. It would be difficult to find a Madison walker who hasn’t done it numerous times. For many the walk to Picnic Point is a necessary ritual for all seasons, connecting the urban rambler to a more natural landscape. The walk maintains pleasant views of Lake Mendota, old growth trees and primordial marshes. Side trips will include walks to Allen Centennial Gardens and to ancient Native American effigy mounds. The walk will begin at the Monona Terrace Convention Center and end at the Memorial Union Terrace where walkers may purchase a cone of world-renowned Babcock Hall ice cream. Harriet Brown, author of Madison Walks, will lead the walk.

MOBILE WORKSHOP F
This mobile workshop will take place in historic Olin-Turville Park within walking distance of the Convention Center. The walking trails in this park have become eroded from a century of heavy use. This workshop will deal with the engineering and building of trails that minimize erosion and simplify maintenance. Brigit Brown, Wisconsin State Trails Coordinator will lead this workshop.

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Poster Session 2 & Refreshment Break

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

• Safe Routes to School Approaches in the Inner City (Meeting Room E)
  Workshop 41 - Melody Geraci, (Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), will introduce unique approaches and modifications to Safe Routes to School programming in the urban setting. Inner-city schools, where high percentages of kids already are walking, often face issues such as crime, economic stress and low parental involvement that go unaddressed in SRTS circles. Beth Gutelius, (Chicago Dept. of Transportation), will discuss the development of two different urban Safe Routes to School programs in Milwaukee and Chicago, both merging ideas of safety and wellness in the school environment. Learn about the environmental context that informed the development of the programs, the process itself, and implementation and evaluation. Sharon Roerty and Mark Plotz (National Center for Bicycling & Walking) will discuss the City Safe Routes to School Program under development through the Active Living Resource Center, operated under support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This program is focusing on how to reach and target an approach for underserved communities.
  
  
• Creating Town/Gown Connections in College Towns (Meeting room F)
  Workshop 42 - With growing enrollments and limited space, universities and colleges are facing constant pressure to reduce congestion and improve parking and transportation services on campus. This has opened the door for alternative modes of transportation. Colleen Mitchell, (Toole Design Group), will present best practices for planning in the campus environment to increase bicycling and walking. Madis Pihlak, (Penn State University), will present a series of case studies of various pedestrian prohibitions in the small college town centered region of State College, PA. Susan Powell, (Cornell University), will discuss making community connections for bicycling and walking, using Ithaca and Cornell as examples. This presentation will describe how informal networks are making connections between the city and the university, and between these formal networks and the public.
  
  
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic Signal Issues and Directions (Meeting room G)
  Workshop 43 - Sam Fielding, (San Francisco Municipal Trans. Agency), will provide an update on San Francisco’s citywide pedestrian countdown signal installation project, involving an extensive pilot installation. He will also present the results of more recent data collected on pedestrian collision patterns at intersections that received the pedestrian countdown signals versus those that did not and compare data before and after installation. Michael Vecchio, (City of Walnut Creek, CA), will discuss whether or not bicycle signal timing is incompatible with the desires of traffic engineers to maximize efficiency for their signalized streets? Twenty agencies responded to a survey of practices that questioned methodology used and results. This presentation will discuss these findings, concerns expressed, methods of signal timing utilized, and recommend next steps to take.
  
  
• Active Transportation for Healthy Communities (Meeting room KLOP)
  Workshop 44 - How many communities would like to be more walkable and bicycle-friendly but aren’t sure how to do it? Laura Cohen, (Rails-to-Trails Conservancy), and Jeffery Rosenhall, (Calif. Center for Physical Activity), will describe how the California Department of Health Services and three non-profit partners together created the Healthy Transportation Network project to bridge critical knowledge gaps statewide. The Network provides a resource website and high-quality technical assistance to local jurisdictions. Johanne Lacombe, (Go for Green), will discuss how active transportation can make a difference in your community. She will show how Go for Green's Active Transportation Workshop encourages and motivates Canadians to choose modes of transportation that require human power, in order to increase physical activity levels and control weight. Lisa Cirill,(California Dept. of Health Services), will describe a strong and unique partnership which serves as a national model. This partnership has allowed the California Center for Physical Activity to acquire over 2 million in project grants from Caltrans to increase walking, biking and access to public transit in communities throughout California.
  
  
• Making Your Advocacy Efforts Pay Off (Meeting room J)
  Workshop 45 - To kick off this workshop, members of America Walks, a national coalition of local advocacy groups dedicated to promoting walkable communities, will present tips on how effective advocacy can help communities implement plans, programs, and projects. Andy Hamilton, (America Walks and WalkSanDiego.), will then present a Tune-Up for Pedestrian Advocacy Organizations, in which America Walks members will help pedestrian advocates -- and interested bike advocates -- diagnose weaknesses in their organizations, and facilitate a sharing of successful strategies with roundtables focusing on particular topics. Topics include making connections with other interests, fundraising, building membership, what programs to undertake, recruiting and managing your board, staff, and volunteers.
  
  
• Fixing a Driving Culture that has Gone Awry (Lecture Hall)
  Workshop 46 - Khalil Spencer, (Bicycle Coalition of New Mexico), takes a different approach to traffic safety with “ALARA”, an effort to cast transportation safety into a paradigm similar to that used to evaluate safety in other complex systems such a high risk industries (chemical plants, nuclear power plants, nuclear installations) or regulated transportation systems (airlines, trucking). Janine Bauer, (Bauer Consulting Assoc.,Inc.), and Rutgers University's Voorhees Transportation Center and the New Jersey Dept. of Transportation, have tackled New Jersey's too-high pedestrian fatality and injury rate by examining its laws, and law enforcement, prosecutions, and practices, in order to suggest improvements that will be presented to agencies and the legislature, building on initiatives from other states and cities.
  
  
• The Evolution of Two Walkable/Bikeable Cities: Boulder, CO and Portland, OR - (Meeting Room I)
  Workshop 47 - In this inspirational presentation, Mia Birk, (Alta Planning + Design), will show how investments in bikeway facilities have transformed Portland, a city of more than 500,000, and has led to increased bicycle use, improved economic growth, a vibrant bicycle culture, and a healthier community lifestyle. Martha Roskowski, (GO Boulder/City of Boulder, CO), will then describe a the 20-year evolution that has resulted in Boulder being graced with a comprehensive network of on and off-street facilities where 21 percent of work trips are made by bike. A former bicycle advocate turned city staffer, Roskowski will trace the decisions and dynamics that took a community that had little bike infrastructure and modest programs in the 80s and catalyzed this dramatic evolution to a bicycling Boulder 20 years later.

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2006 Party (The party site is approximately 1.5 miles from the Monona Terrace Convention Center.)

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