Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2008 - Seattle, Washington

Wednesday
September 3

Thursday
September 4

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Period One:

#2. Federal Funding for Nonmotorized Transportation and Recreation and the National Trails Training Partnership (Cascade II)
1) RTP Trails Nov 2008:
Presentation: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/fundrec_pres.htm
2) RTP and TE Summary: includes both briefs listed below.
Recreational Trails Program Brief: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/brief.htm
Transportation Enhancement Activities Brief: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/te/brief.htm
3) New Approach for Transportation
USDOT Reform Proposal: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/reauth_reform.htm
Christopher Douwes

The (National) Recreational Trails Program--NRTP
Greg Lovelady (155Kb PowerPoint Presentation)
#3. Complete Streets: The Seattle Experience (Elliott Bay)
#4. Bring SmartTrips Home: Individualized Marketing Training to Increase Healthy Trips (Grand Crescent)
Surviving Your First SmartTrips Program
Jessica Roberts (493Kb PDF Format)

#5. Bikeway Design (Vashon I & II)
New Lines on the Road: Canada’s Guidelines for the Design and Application of
Bikeway Pavement Markings.
Norma Moores (1.41Mb PDF Format)

#6. Adapting the Bike Sharing Concept to North America (St. Helens)
A Public Bicycle System in Metro Vancouver?
Eileen Kadesh and Andrew Curran (605Kb PDF Format)
Bike Sharing in North America
Eileen Kadesh and Andrew Curran (968Kb PDF Format)
SmartBike DC and How it Happened (for Free)
George Branyan (444Kb PowerPoint Presentation)
#7. The Explosion in National and International Cycle Networks (Cascade IA)
#8. Where Do People Bicycle and Walk? (Cascade IB)
Where Do People Bicycle and Walk?
Heather Dunigan (4.7Mb PDF Format)
StreetPlan LA: Prioritizing Corridors for Field Survey
Kim Voros (2.9Mb PDF Format)

#9. Documenting Best Practices In Creating Active/Healthy Communities: Enlisting Public Health Organizations (Cascade IC)

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

#10. Adopting and Enacting Complete Streets Policies (Fifth Avenue)
#11. The Non-motorized Pilot Program: Walk, Bike & Benefit (Cascade II)
#12. Locally Grown: Planning A SRTS Program That Fits Your Community (Elliott Bay)
#13. Designing for Bicyclists and Pedestrians (Grand Crescent)
Designing Cities in Europe for Bicycles: An Engineering Perspective
Tom Bertulis (4.7MB - PowerPoint Presentation)
#14. Bicycle Parking: Best Practices (see related mobile workshop in Period 3) (Vashon I & II)

#15. Active Community Environments: Planners, Transportation and Public Health Working Together…My Oh My! (St. Helens)
#16. Maps and Community Engaged Mapping (Cascade IA)
The Neighborhoods on Foot Map Series
Seth Schromen-Wawrin (13.6MB PowerPoint Presentation)
#17. Making Streets Safer (Cascade IB)
#18. Fringe Urbansm (Cascade IC)

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

#19. What’s New In the Upcoming Edition of the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities? (Fifth Avenue)
#20. Can Green Streets Be Complete Streets Too? (Cascade II)
#21. Trail Building (Elliott Bay)
#22. Encouraging Corporate Cycling Programs (Grand Crescent)
Healthy Commute Choices at Chicago Public Schools
Suzanne Carlson (388Kb PDF Format)
#23. Bikes and Transit: Why and How (Vashon I & II)
Bikes and Transit: Why and How
Michelle Poyourow, Jessica Roberts and Carolyn Young (575Kb PDF Format)

#24. Sidewalk Planning (St. Helens)
Sidewalk Strategic PlanCity of Peterborough
Susan Sauve (384Kb PowerPoint Presentation)
#25. Assessing the Demand and Value of Cycling Improvements (Cascade IA)
Regina Bikeways Needs Assessment Study: Measuring the value of the bikeway infrastructure.
Norma Moores (2Mb PDF Format)
Improving Advocacy Capacity Through Available Demand Modeling
Joshua Poppel (2.5Mb PDF Format)
#26. The Underground Railroad Bicycle Route – Diversifying Bicycling Through Innovative Ideas and Partners (Cascade IB)
#27. Sunday Parkways/Summer Streets – Fun and Stealth Ways to Transform You Community (Cascade IC)
#28. Bicycle Parking Implementation Tour (A Walkabout)

Wednesday
September 3

Thursday
September 4