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WI Bicycle/Pedestrian Summit

The following workshops are involved in the Wisconsin State Bicycle/Pedestrian Summit.

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

• 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
  
• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
  
  
• 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.

• 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.
  
  
• 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.

• 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.

• Non-Motorized Pilot Project Communities - Canada and the US (Meeting Room F)
  Workshop 49 - John Fegan, (Federal Highway Administration), will introduce the Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP). Section 1807 of SAFETEA-LU, the Federal transportation legislation, called for the establishment of this pilot program which provides $25 million to each of four communities to build connected networks of facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians, and report on how they changed the number of people bicycling and walking. Other communities can learn where the NTPP is in learning what works and what hasn't worked in getting more people bicycling and walking. Sabine Schweiger, (City of Whitehorse, YK), will describe Whitehorse Moves, a Canadian approach to boosting alternative commuting. Whitehorse, Yukon, was selected by Transport Canada as one of eight Canadian municipalities to showcase urban transportation initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases. Whitehorse Moves proposed to elevate the availability and appeal of active commuting by constructing continuous bicycle and pedestrian corridors, road dieting two major thoroughfares, installing a roundabout, and educating the public. Learn about this three-year journey filled with challenges and successes.
  
  
• Senior Connections: Walkable Neighborhoods and Safety Practices (Meeting room G)
  Workshop 54 - California has the highest population of culturally diverse older adults. Presenter Lisa Cirill, (California Dept. of Health Services), will describe how California public health and its partners have played a significant role in promoting a higher quality of life for its growing older adult population by creating best practices on how to make communities safer and more walkable for seniors. John Bauer and Stacey Vilas, (Safe Community Coalition of Madison and Dane Co.) will discuss their NHTSA Demonstration Project, intended to improve pedestrian safety for older adults. The Coalition is one of three groups in the nation to be awarded such a grant.
  

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