To create real mobility choices for their citizens, communities must mesh bicycling and walking with transit. This webinar explores the common ground between transit and active transportation professionals and advocates, and ways to overcome institutional challenges to cooperation. Topics to be covered in the presentation will include:

• The reasons to create partnerships between transit agencies and bicycle/pedestrian programs;
• Examples of effective collaboration, design guides and best practices;
• Design, operational and safety issues to consider for seamless integration of bicycling and walking with transit stations, roadway facilities and vehicles:
  • At stations—Wayfinding, forecasting demand for short and long-term bicycle parking, access for pedestrians and cyclists, integration with the local street network
  • On the road—Broad overview of issues around incorporating both bicycling and transit facilities in street design, as well as crosswalk policy and treatments at transit stops, pedestrian amenities at bus stops, and accessibility
  • On the transit vehicle—Bicycles on the vehicle; access for people with disabilities
• Recommendations from the International Scan on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Mobility
• Teaching cyclists and transit operators to share the road, including a new education program developed for Chicago that helps create a cooperative and safe environment.

Presenters:
Cynthia Hoyle, FAICP, is a nationally recognized leader and advocate for livable communities and safe streets. She was a pioneer in advocating for streets as corridors for all modes of transportation beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the PAS report Traffic Calming in 1995. She has over 25 years of experience as a transportation planner; specifically traffic calming, pedestrian and bicycle planning, and mobility oriented development. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a Fellow in the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and has held various leadership roles within the American Planning Association. She is co-chair of Champaign-Urbana Safe Routes to School Project and works with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District promoting multi-modal transportation in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Dustin White is a transportation planner at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) with seven years of experience. The SFMTA is responsible for all surface transportation in San Francisco, including the planning, design and operation of the public transit system (Muni) and multi-modal street operations. Mr. White began at the SFMTA designing on-street bicycle improvement projects and overseeing a comprehensive update of the city's bicycle plan. He is currently managing the Transit Effectiveness Project, a comprehensive review of the Muni system aimed at making transit more reliable, faster and more efficient. Muni is the seventh largest public transit system in the U.S., carrying about 700,000 daily passengers.

Amanda Woodall is a consultant for the Active Transportation Alliance in Chicago. She spent four years coordinating safety projects at the Chicago Department of Transportation's Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs, providing support to city agencies with policy initiatives and implementation of Chicago's Bike 2015 Plan. Her key consulting projects include the 2008 Chicago Bicycle Safety Ordinance, developing and implementing bike-safety enforcement training for police, and share-the-road training programs for taxi drivers and bus operators. She currently serves as Policy Manger, integrating active transportation policy into obesity reduction initiatives in suburban Cook County, Illinois.

APBP has applied to the AICP for one Certification Maintenance credit for this webinar. A certificate of attendance for those wanting to claim Professional Development Hours will be available.

Cost is $50 per site for APBP members, $75 per site for non-APBP members. Each site license includes one phone connection (toll charges apply, or use VoIP), one Internet connection, one set of handouts for unlimited attendees in the same location, and access to the recording. (You may be required to download free software from Citrix GoToMeeting in order to participate in the webinar.) APBP accepts Visa, MasterCard or AMEX; payment should be made by noon on September 14. For more information, contact Debra Goeks (262-228-7025 or info@apbp.org).

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